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Dear Colleagues:

I am just beginning to research sources for public domain images for an
architectural history survey course.  I have done some reasearch in our
library and on the Web and have not been very successful.

Our Chair mentioned that print and CD compendums of public domain art are
available for reasonable prices.  She did not have any further information on
this.  Has anyone purchased these?  Did you find them helpful, with images
that suited your needs?  Could you refer me to vendors for this type of
product?

Are there resources for finding government generated images which are in the
public domain?

Does anyone have an address for the Beckmann Archive?

Has anyone had experience writing to publishers of architectural history
texts for permission to use their drawings?  I am thinking of contacting the
publishers of History of Architecture texts such as Fletcher, Kostof and
Trachtenberg.

Thank you for your insights.  I would appreciate any information regarding
public domain images.  Our library does not have many books on architecture
published before 1903 so I am trying to research comprehensive surveys that I
could interlibrary loan.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Hegarty
Head, Slide Library
Northeastern University
Department of Art and Architecture
239 Ryder Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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