Interior of Tram signal box overwaiting shed at Railway Square
Online Photographs
There are so many ways photographs are used, catalogued and arranged online that when it comes to searching for them there are a lot of different paths you can take. Personally I’m not very adventurous with my searching. I mostly use Google Images, will occasionally trawl through Flickr and use State Records Photo Investigator when I’m looking for images like the one above to use in this blog!
Since photographs are such a popular online resource and a key part of many archival collections I thought I’d:
a) ask you what tools you use to search for them, and
b) test out our new poll software!
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Do you have any tips or tricks for searching for photographs? Do you have any links to some favourite image sites to share?
Patricia says:
Thank you for the “ideas” that there are even other place out there other than “Google”. Much appreciated.
Fiona Sullivan says:
Thanks for the feedback Patricia. There is so much out there on the web but tracking it down is another matter entirely! Depending on your area of interest there are some great sites e.g. The Smithsonian National Zoological Park Backyard Biology Gallery
Reference Services says:
Your website is outstanding!
Here is the url to the blog from the Archives of the Sandusky Library if you would like to take a look:
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com
Anthea Brown says:
Thanks for adding your blog url – there are some wonderful photos.