Category Archives: Public Domain Resources

One Down, 49 To Go: Carol Highsmith’s Images of Alabama Now Online at the Library of Congress

I first wrote about Carol Highsmith two years ago when I asked, Is Carol M. Highsmith the Most Generous Artist of Our Time? after coming across her archive at the  Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog and learning … Continue reading

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Generosity in 21st Century America: Carol Highsmith and the George F. Landegger Alabama Collection

At the end of March, I told you that photographer Carol Highsmith was in Alabama, working on a project for the Library of Congress, the 21st Century America Collection. Her goal is to document in digital images life in each state so that … Continue reading

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Where in America is Carol M. Highsmith?

You may remember my post from last year,  Is Carol M. Highsmith the Most Generous Artist of Our Time? about the photographer who for nearly twenty years has donated her work and assigned her rights to the Library of Congress, … Continue reading

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Who Was Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother?

While I plan to post henceforth on public domain images on Public Domain Images Online, I’m posting a bit of this one here since it follows up on a havealittletalk post from this spring.  In an earlier post I noted that … Continue reading

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Public Domain Images: Polar Bears and Blue Angels, Submarines and Ships of the US Navy

Polar bears attract my attention these days since I am a big fan of Iorek Byrnison, king of the armoured bears of Svalbard, and one of the few admirable adults in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and Once Upon a … Continue reading

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tripping the links fantastic: WPA Posters, Public Domain Collection Online at the Library of Congress

I keep  hoping that the economic stimulus plan will include funding for the arts, but I haven’t seen any sign of this. In contrast, one of the legacies of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration are the iconic American photographs by … Continue reading

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links fantastic: Theatrical Posters in Public Domain. And Dastard.

A little levity today, courtesy of yet another collection from the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, this one a collection of some 2100 performing arts posters. Most date from 1879 to 1910, so they are in the … Continue reading

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tripping the links fantastic: Public Domain Images from the Farm Security Administration

Yesterday I was going to post on posters created by WPA artists (and I will) when I wandered into another collection on the incomparable Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. Have you ever heard of the Farm Security Administration (FSA)? … Continue reading

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Carol Highsmith: Generosity of Spirit

The tenth installment on the PACT is coming soon, but I am interrupting myself because I had a lovely surprise in my email this morning: notification of a comment from Carol Highsmith. If you’ve only recently started following this blog, … Continue reading

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Is Carol M. Highsmith the Most Generous Artist of Our Time?

 100,000 public domain digital images:  That is the estimated number of images  that Carol M. Highsmith (b. 1946) will one day have provided the public for their personal, educational, or commercial use all for the price of a credit line.  Since … Continue reading

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