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Image Resources Online
Picturing Modern America Created with an interdisciplinary team of humanities scholars
and teachers, several kinds of online inquiry guides to explore primary historical materials related
to the building of modern America, 1880–1920, that are taken from existing digital archives.
http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/
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Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern
America 1880-1920
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Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources
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Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory
and other sources.
Photo Essays
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
A Depression Art Gallery
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
Images on the Internet
Some of the sites listed also include links to services that offer images at a low cost.
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Freeimages (http://www.freeimages.co.uk/) carries over 2500 stock photo images in a variety of
categories. All are free.
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Barry's Clip Art Server (http://www.barrysclipart.com/) provides full-color clip art of images
categorized from A-Z especially useful for illustrating a glossary. Links to other sites as well.
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Digital Library System (http://images.fws.gov/) contains public domain images from five image
repositories for you to download.
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Image After (http://www.imageafter.com/) provides free images for personal and commercial use.
Updated daily.
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Yahoo Picture Gallery: http://gallery.yahoo.com/homepage.php
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Google Image Search: http://www.google.com/imghp
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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
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Image Collector:
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/tools/image
collector.cfm
The Image Finder and Image Describer tutorials teach
you how to find images and create educationally meaningful text descriptions to make images
accessible and useful to all of your students. The Image Collector tool helps you find, describe, and
save images to use in your classroom.
Steps to save an image (taken from The Digital Resources Toolkit at
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/toolkits/tk_introduction.cfm?tk_id=41)
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After viewing the results of your image search on Google, go to the Web site that actually
contains the image by copying and pasting the Web site address into your browser. Paste
this Web site address below as well.
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Right click (PC) or hold your mouse down (Mac) on the image.
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Choose "Save Picture As" or "Save Image As".
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Navigate to the folder in which you wish to save the image.
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Rename the image with something meaningful and memorable, keeping the extension (.jpg
or .gif) intact and leaving no spaces between words.
 Save the image.
Common Image File Formats (downloaded from http://www.reasoft.com/articles/formats1.shtml)
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GIF: The GIF format is the most commonly used for bitmap images composed of line drawings or
blocks of a few distinct colors. This feature makes GIF a particularly popular format for Web
images.
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JPEG: The JPEG is one of the most popular formats for Web graphics. It supports 24 bits of color
information, and is most commonly used for photographs and similar continuous-tone bitmap
images.
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TIFF: The TIFF files are generally larger than GIF or JPEG files.
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