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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Farm Security Administration Project:FOR SALE

2005-12-22 by Carl Schofield

Some fine print on rights and copying here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/258_mats.html
This varies with the different collections.

On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Mark Savoia wrote:

> There is a company in New Mexico or Arizona (can't find link right
> now) that is printing these and many more from the Library's
> collection and selling them, framed or unframed. They must have made
> a deal with them, I would think you or I could NOT do the same even
> though the images are in "public domain". Any thoughts on that? There
> must be some fine print somewhere.
> Mark
>
>
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Carl Schofield wrote:
>
>> There are also some very nice high res scans of 5x7 B&W negatives
>> in the Matson negative
>> collection from the middle east.  Here is one of taken in the
>> Crusader Church at Abou
>> Gosh:
>> http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/matpc/14700/14776u.tif
>>
>> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "garethjolly"
>> <garethjolly@b...>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ever felt like reprinting one of the classic images from the 30s?
>>>
>>> The Library of Congress has 1000s of images available free in
>>> 'archival' TIFFS (10-50MB or more) - including such classics as
>>> Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mothers and Walker Evans shots
>>>
>>> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
>>>
>>> I produced some beautiful digital reprints on my R2400.
>>>
>>> I'll confess I've always wanted to print one of these images in the
>>> darkroom - might try doing a contact neg onto transparency.  But I
>>> don't  think the R2400 can do this, can it?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Gareth

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