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Month: November 2015

Citing Images

Here are some examples/models for citation formats for images. In each case, you should put the citation in the “caption” window, which you can find when you upload or edit on “Media.” As you upload more images, make sure to put your citations in there.

You’ll also need to consider whether you need permission to use images you get online. If an image (or a text) was created before 1925, it is automatically in the public domain, which means you don’t need permission to use it. If it was created after that, your need to acquire permission (or to make a “good faith effort” to do so) will depend upon where you found it.

All images must have citations/captions, including those that you’ve taken yourself. (“Photo by [your name]”) You want to do this not only because scholars must cite their sources, but also for the sake of clarity: you want your reader to know what they’re looking at, and where the image came from. Presenting an image without explaining its meaning and purpose can be confusing and misleading.

Please let me know ASAP if there are any other types of image-based primary sources you’re confused about how to cite. I will add to this post as they come up.

Sanborn Maps:

Make sure you include the correct sheet #. No permission needed.

Corner of Edgewood and Bell, Atlanta 1911-1925, sheet 453, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

Corner of Edgewood and Bell, Atlanta 1911-1925, sheet 453, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

 

Snapshots from Birdseye Maps:

You can find three different birds eye maps of the Atlanta if you go to the Library of Congress website (www.loc.gov) and search for birds eye map Atlanta. You do not need permission to use any of them — they’re all in the public domain. But make sure you cite them, using the correct date and contributor.

Flatiron Building, Foote and Davies Birdseye Map of Atlanta (1919)

Flatiron Building, Foote and Davies Birdseye Map of Atlanta (1919)

Photographs from the GSU Library’s Digital Collections:

You can find the accession/catalog # if you scroll down the page on the Digital Collections website. You do not need permission to use them, but you must give a full citation.

"Wreckers expose the oldest building in downtown Atlanta, the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, Atlanta, Georgia, October 30, 1979." AJCP201-15b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

“Wreckers expose the oldest building in downtown Atlanta, the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot, Atlanta, Georgia, October 30, 1979.” AJCP201-15b, Atlanta Journal Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Photographs from the Atlanta History Center:

Here, too, you can find the catalog # by scrolling down the page on the AHC Album website. You don’t need permission as long as you’re using the version of the image with the AHC watermark.

Kimball House (c. 1950), VIS 82.582.04, Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center.

Kimball House (c. 1950), VIS 82.582.04, Kenneth Rogers Photographs, reproduced with permission from Atlanta History Photograph Collection, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta GA.

Images from Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons:

If an image appears on Wikipedia, it is possible that the owner of that image has released it to the public domain. If that’s the case, you can use it without permission … but you still need to cite it.

The Richards Mausoleum, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta GA. Image from Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland-Cemetery-Richards-tomb.jpg (accessed April 5, 2016)

The Richards Mausoleum, Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta GA. Image from Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland-Cemetery-Richards-tomb.jpg (accessed April 5, 2016)

Images from Archival Collections:

This image comes from the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta. It was sent to me by their archivist, and he gave me permission to use it.

Menu (c. 1960), Leb's Restaurant Records, William Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta GA.

Menu (c. 1960), Leb’s Restaurant Records, William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta GA.

Photographs that you took:

Of course, you don’t need permission to use a picture you took, since you took it. If there are people in the picture besides yourself, though, you should get permission from them. In the caption, state what it is a photograph of, if it’s not obvious to the reader. You can give it the caption “Photograph by author,” or you can attach your name to it. Either way, give the date that the photo was taken.

Mailbox in Rhodes-Haverty Building, Atlanta GA. Photograph taken by Marni Davis, January 7, 2016.

Mailbox in Rhodes-Haverty Building, Atlanta GA. Photograph taken by Marni Davis, January 7, 2016.

George Muse’s Clothing Company

Hello! I’m Diana, student at Georgia State University located at the heart of Downtown Atlanta. As a student, I have embraced this great city and its history. One of my favorite buildings in Atlanta is the Muse Building. This structure was once the site of one of the largest retailers in the city, and perhaps, the Southeast. I have had fun researching and learning about this Muse’s and I hope that fellow residents, newcomers, and students enjoy reading.

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Rialto Center for the Arts

Hello fellow theater lovers! My name is Allison, and I live in Atlanta Georgia which is home to the Georgia State University campus, where I am currently studying history. Atlanta has been known as a home for the many beautiful theaters such as the Fox Theater as well as the Loew’s Grand Theater (which unfortunately is no longer a standing theater). My personal favorite theater is located right on the Georgia State Campus known as the Rialto Center for the Arts. I fell in love with the Rialto after going to a few of my school of music friends recitals. I wanted to further my knowledge in the history of this astonishing theater. The Rialto was a wonderful location to research and I hope you enjoy learning about this location as much as I did.

 

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The Secret Mysteries of Kell Hall

Myke Johns, "Georgia History:100 Years of Georgia State University." Atlanta's NPR Station, Nov. 22, 2013.

Myke Johns, “Georgia History:100 Years of Georgia State University.” Atlanta’s NPR Station, Nov. 22, 2013.

UPDATE: KELL HALL WAS DEMOLISHED IN 2019-2020

If you attended Georgia State University, Kell Hall is forever ingrained in your memory. It was the old building where classrooms were frustratingly hidden away in bizarre half-level floors. There was an odd rampway that you climbed arduously to reach science labs on 4th, 5th, and 6th floors. You remember the gray and beige exterior that seems aesthetically questionable. What If I told you that these features were purposely designed by well-renowned engineers? What if Kell Hall was meant to be a beautiful and technological marvel? What if Kell Hall had a secret past in a different life? In search of these answers, let’s journey into the mysteries of the secret past of Kell Hall.

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Turner Field

Growing up, I was a little boy who was in love with the sport of baseball.  Wherever I went, I had a ball and glove close by me.  If somebody had a question about who was leading the league in home runs, or who won the World Series in the most random year, there was a high chance I knew.  This love was sparked by a Major League Baseball team that resided just an hour south of where I grew up: the Atlanta Braves.  Continue reading

Tringali’s Ristorante Italiano

View of 94 Pryor St. in 2015. Photograph taken by Author.

View of 94 Pryor St. in 2015.
Photograph taken by Author.

This building, which is the result of a sequence of viaduct constructions that began in 1899, lies on top of what is currently known as “Underground Atlanta”.[1] A viaduct project commenced in response to the growing traffic problem. The automobile’s growing popularity clashed with the preexisting railroads. The rise in the automobile’s popularity contributed to significant increases in traffic congestion as well as accidents on the city’s roadways.

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Thomas E. Watson

Across the street from the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta lays a small enclosure at the intersection of Washington and Mitchell Street called Talmadge plaza. When you stroll past Governor Herman Tallmadge’s statue there, a twelve-foot tall bronze figure can be seen overlooking the small square. The somber epithet “Honor’s Path He Trod” is chiseled beneath the figure’s feet. It’s the statue of the infamous Southern demagogue himself, Thomas E. Watson. Continue reading

The Road to The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association was chartered in 1922, in order to Americanize the immigrant Greek population. It was a long road to finally reach a general consensus  that America was to be their home, but the consensus was reached and so began AHEPA.

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The Sweet Auburn Curb Market

The Sweet Auburn Curb Market is a historic market located in downtown Atlanta .  In 1918 Atlanta established a “curb market” on land cleared by the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917.  This fire decimated the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta, destroying almost two thousand homes and leaving over ten thousand Atlantans, mostly blacks, homeless.[1] After the fire a tent market occupied the site.

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Dixie Coca-Cola Plant

Buildings come and go as technology and the world around them change, and in Atlanta this trend is not any different. However, some buildings like the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Plant have withstood modernization for almost one hundred and twenty-five years. It’s not the building itself that is important; rather, it’s the history and usage of the building that makes it compelling.

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