Archival Magic
resource STARTER LIST
Remember >>>
1. You are responsible for confirming the appropriate rights for material you will use.
2. Talk to the staff at your chosen / local GLAM institutions. They are pros at this stuff.
3. There’s magic in the archives. Go find some!
U.S. COPYRIGHT EXPLANATIONS
Copyright Office primers: (1) basics, (2) duration, (3) how to check status, (4) what isn’t protected
Legal explanations from Cornell or Duke or Stanford
Understanding copyright and reuse
Copyright and historical newspapers
U.S. government works
CREATING YOUR OWN ARCHIVE
Look for resources in your area similar to this. Hint: probably affiliated with a library.
National Archives - How to Preserve Family Archives (and other media formats)
Library of Congress - Personal Archives
Minnesota History Center - Preserve Your Family Treasures
American Institute for Conservation
Society of American Archivists
“We Are What We Keep”
MULTIPLE MEDIA TYPES
Be sure to check university libraries around the world...
Library of Congress + selected set of free-to-use examples
National Archives
Smithsonian Open Access
U.S. National Park Service
Open Access at The Met
Internet Archive
Public Domain Review
Getty Open Content Program
Wikimedia Commons
British Library
National Archives of Singapore
Creative Commons
AUDIO
Library of Congress Citizen DJ
YouTube free audio library + sound effects
NPR (resource list)
British Library - Sound
re:vive
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
FILM
International Documentary Association (scroll down for archival storytelling)
Library of Congress - public domain films
Prelinger Archives
Black Film Archive
ILLUSTRATIONS, PAINTINGS, POSTERS, FABRICS
Biodiversity Heritage Library
National Gallery of Art
Library of Congress WPA Posters
U.S. National Library of Medicine (more here)
Wellcome Collection
British Library
Internet Archive - Book Images
Victoria and Albert Museum
Artstor (cleared for educational and scholarly use)
George Washington University Textile Museum
U.S. stamps
Plantin-Moretus Museum woodcuts
MAPS (many more sources…)
Rumsey Map Collection (non-commercial use; contact to request commercial)
Fire Insurance Maps (lots of other libraries have these for other cities)
Leventhal Map Center
PHOTOS (so many more…)
Flickr Commons
Library of Congress and LOC Flickr
Library of Congress Panoramic Photograph Collection
National Archives and NARA Flickr
U.S. government sites (resource list, including NASA)
U.S. National Park Service
SHEET MUSIC
UCLA Sheet Music Consortium
Duke University Historic American Sheet Music
British Library - Music Manuscripts
TEXTS
HathiTrust
Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers (+ local and state libraries in particular for digitized newspaper archives)
Menu Collection of Hayden Mathews
Museum of Food and Drink
UTSA Mexican Cookbook Collection
Mental Floss - 15 Vintage Recipe Collections
OCLC (like WorldCat - guide to other materials / descriptions)
Project Gutenberg
Google Books
U.S. Census - awesome examples of data visualizations