As requested, here are the responses I received to my recent query.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED! Marilyn
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Marilyn Nasserden
Fine Arts (Art and Music) and Environmental Design Librarian
University of Calgary Library
> "There are 160,000 images of Americans between 1935-1945 at the Library
> of Congress site http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html. I don't know
> what the copyright status is."
>
> "You might try Art Resource Inc. in New York City. They have a large
> library of fine art images, including, I believe, some historical
> portraits (engravings, etc.). Art Resource now has some of their
> collection in digital form, but much of it is probably either
> transparencies or prints which your folks could digitize. They used to
> have quite reasonable rates for educational usage.
>
> Art Resource's address is 536 Broadway - 5th Floor New York, NY 10012
> Phone: 212-505-8700 Email: [log in to unmask]"
>
> "Some of the Stock Photography companies have images or illustrations of
> famous people from the past. Try Super Stock's Vintage Collection. I
> flipped through a couple of catalogs and saw Bolivar, Dante, Plato,
> Aristotle and Shakespeare. They can help you research and can provide
> rights and permission to use the images.
> Super Stock
> 800-828-4545
> www.superstockimages.com
> Or try Archive Photos
> www.archivephotos.com"
>
> "For the Classics images you could try Archivision if
> you haven't already -- www.archivision.com. Archivision may be useful
> for
> other things as well."
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> I have received the following request for a source to obtain digital
> images for a faculty member here or print images with copyright
> permissions to digitize. Can anyone help us with this request? Any info
> appreciated. Please reply to me and I will relay the information. Thank
> you in advance.
> Marilyn
> --
> Marilyn Nasserden
> Fine Arts (Art and Music) and Environmental Design Librarian
> University of Calgary Library
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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> The Faculty of Humanities is putting together a brochure that will
> include photos of writers, critics, thinkers, philosophers from ancient
> to modern times. We have been unable to get a number of these images
> through convential stock libraries.
> We are requesting help in getting digital images of any of the following
> list to use in the brochure. We are requesting images from a copyright-
> free source or
> from sources where copyright is straightforward and can be given in a
> timely manner or
> for any photo library sources where these images can be purchased at a
> reasonable price.
>
> A few of the images on the list are available but the price, eg sketch
> of Michelangelo for $270US, is somewhat high. Thank you for your help.
> The list follows:
>
> Italian
> Michelangelo
> Luigi Pirandello
> Dante Alighieri
>
> Spanish
> Simon Bolivar
> Miguel de Cervantes
> Carlos Fuentes
>
> French
> Anne Hébert
> Molière
> Charlemagne
>
> English
> Chaucer
> Shakespeare
>
> Philosophy
> Plato
> Aristotle
> Aquinas
> DesCartes
> Hume
> Kant
> Bertrand Russell
> Wittgenstein
> G.E.M. Anscombe (20th c. British)
> Martha Neussbaum (living – US)
> Confucius
>
> Greek and Roman Studies
> Plato
> Aristotle
> Emperor Augustus
> Julius Caesar
> Pericles (Bust)
> Jason (Mythic figure)
> Sappho
> --
> Thank you for supporting the Humanities!
> Natalie MacLean, BA, MBA
> Marketing & Development
> Faculty of Humanities
> University of Calgary
> Tel: (403)220-3712 Fax: (403) 284-0848
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