Digital BW, The Print

Thanks a lot Ed!


On 3/17/06 7:08 AM, "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com"
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Message: 11      
>    Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:13:14 -0000
>    From: "edrudolpho" <erudolph@...>
> Subject: Re: Scanned pictures Library of Congress
> 
> Hi... some of the links at the Staff Selections and Popular Requests seem
> broken.  Try this,
> though, to find another way to access these files.  Start off at this link:
> 
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fatop1.html
> 
> This is a page from the Popular Requests section.  Go to the image on the
> bottom right. 
> Migrant Mother, and try clicking on it.  The link is broken.  Okay, now try
> this:
> 
> Remember the first line of the description (Destitute pea pickers in
> California).  Go back to
> the FSA home page and put those words into the search field.  Select "match
> this exact 
> phrase" from the pulldown menu below the search field.  This will take you to
> the page for 
> that image.  At the bottom of that page, you'll see what files are available
> for the Migrant 
> Mother image.  In this case, there is one choice:  "b&w digital file from
> nitrate negative."
> Click on that link.  On the next page you'll see that there is both a
> 163kilobyte jpeg and a
> 55 megabyte TIFF.
> 
> Sometimes, your search will take you to a list of images rather than a single
> image.  You 
> can then explore that list.  Notice also there is sometimes a PREV and NEXT
> link at the top 
> of the image page.  These links can take you to adjacent images on the roll.
> 
> Hope this will get you started.... :-)
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, G Guhan Gunaratnam
> <guruguhan@...> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Sorry for the barrage of questions.  I've seen a number of posts regarding
>> scanned prints from the Library of Congress (scanned hi-res TIFFS).  I've
>> gone to the site mentioned (
>> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html) and gone into the staff
>> selections and popular requests.  When I click on the link beneath each
>> image I either get a small image file, or the file cannnot be found.  Where
>> are the huge LF scans mentioned?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> G Guhan Gunaratnam
>> 
>