LALS 172: Digital Story Project

Historical Photographs

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Over 12 million photographs dating back to 1826 depicting major historical events worldwide

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Search and browse millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States

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Over 200,000 digitized items from the University of California collections. Includes photographs, political cartoons, works of art, advertising, and more.

Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art
Primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States

Maps

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Digital images of historical maps world-wide, from the library of the University of Texas, Austin
David Rumsey Map Collection
Digital images of rare 18th- and 19th-century maps of the Americas (and the rest of the world)
Additional Resources for Finding Maps
Maps Research guide from UCSC includes local Santa Cruz and worldwide map resources

General Creative Commons Image Sources

Creative Commons Search
Search for images and videos with a Creative Commons re-use license on multiple websites
Wikimedia Commons
Over 32 million freely usable media files
Flickr Commons
Images with no known copyright restrictions from various cultural heritage institutions

Creative Commons and other "Special Licenses"

There is a lot of media that has been made available for anyone to use, waiving the need to obtain direct permission from the author. For example, a very common license is an "Attribution" license, meaning that you can use the media for any purpose as long as you give credit to the creator somewhere in your work. The non-profit organization Creative Commons offers a variety of attribution licenses that creators apply to their work to make available for public use. Learn more about Creative Commons licensing. Search for works with a Creative Commons license.

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Fair Use

"Fair Use" is a provision in US copyright law that imposes limits and exceptions to the exclusive rights of authors / creators.

It means that you can use copyright-protected media without asking for permission if is considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

Fair Use Guidelines for student projects:

Always give full credit - In your citation you should include the creator, title of the work, date of publication, and URL. (Note: "youtube.com" should never be cited as the creator - it is always the user or company who made the original content)
Only use a small amount (e.g. 5-10 seconds of video or music)
If shared online, consider making your project private. There are usually ways to share a project privately without making it publicly available for anyone to see -- for example, there are settings in Youtube.com to make videos "unlisted" so that only people with a link will ever see your video.

Learn more about Fair Use:

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Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.