Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Picture Finding Experience

Finding pictures, thanks to the in-class tutorial on using the Library of Congress and National Archives websites, was not that hard. My project focused on U.S. involvement in World War I, from the sinking of the Lusitania to the Treaty of Versailles, so there were many images available. In addition, I did want to include a picture of Wilson leaving for Europe/pledging support for Europe, but I was not able to find one on the internet that was not Fair Use. I thought it would illustrate the story more, as in my finish product I jump from trench warfare to Versailles. I wish that there was a way to make some of the images on the LOC website larger, as many were political cartoons with indecipherable captions. Nonetheless, I was able to make a coherent narrative about the war.

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