Images in the Public Domain
Images in the Public Domain
Copyright notice:
The U.S. Copyright Office's circular entitled Copyright Basics and
particularly the section on How long copyright protection
endures, explain why these images came to belong to the public. In a nutshell,
works published prior to 1978 were protected for a maximum of 75 years. See "sources", below for more information on these particular images.
Related material:
Lantern slides (under development), B&C
Art Gallery (new
site, under development)
See also
Imagery and allied axes: Grazing rights in the public domain, some musical instruments,
and scanning old images.
The image directories:
Also, take a look at
Maxim's flying machine
Sources:
The images in the directories referenced above are from scans by Jessica
Reardon (Williams College) and dpd
(Williams College and SRU), with some
logistic help by Fran Hutchinson (Bay Path College) of images from Webster's New International Dictionary
of the English Language, 1911, G & C Merriam Co.
Springfield, MA.
Jonathon Litz provided most of the work on the ornamental images, and
continues that work on several new collections. To help with this project,
please send email to davidDotdaileyAtsruDotedu.
Typically, the original engravings were done by engravers with
identities unknown to me.
 
color and
greyscale
versions of an engraving (apparently by SFB Morse)
of Noah Webster (from the
1911 Webster's)
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Send inquiries to (dpd)
Dailey's home page.
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