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May ‘65

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I am creating a book on lighthouses and would like a print quality files of some National Archive images. What is the process and how long does it take? Many thanks. Katy Pye

A fitting question for #WorldArchitectureDay!

Depending on the individual item you can download the digital file of the image from the National Archives Catalog, just go the item and click the blue “Download Full Size Image” button.

Note the digital versions posted online are not always print-quality, especially with older .GIF format scans. In some of these cases, high-res TIFs can be accessed, through the following method (this only works for .gifs).  We’ll use this photo of the Tillamook Lighthouse as an example. Hovering over the “Download Full Size Image” button, you’ll notice this is a .GIF format image.

Right click on the Download button and choose “Copy link address” to copy this URL: https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/296867/content/media/images/31/17/31-1655a.gif?download=true

Open a new browser tab or window, and paste this into the URL field.

Delete everything before the second “media” in the URL, and delete everything after “gif”. So you’ll be left with this: media/images/31/17/31-1655a.gif

Next, add https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws.com/arcmedia/ in front of “media,” like so: https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws.com/arcmedia/media/images/31/17/31-1655a.gif

Finally, change “a.gif” to “M.TIF” like so: https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws.com/arcmedia/media/images/1/1/01-0081M.TIF

Hit enter in the URL field in the browser, and it should download (or display) the high-res TIF version

If the image is not in the Catalog, or is an insufficient resolution, contact the location or curatorial unit for information and methods for obtaining a scan, including via in-person research or through a vendor. See “How to Obtain Copies” for information on obtain reproductions of records of all types from the National Archives.  For lighthouses, you might be interested in photos and architectural drawings in particular:

How to order copies of photos & still pictures: “Ordering Still Picture Reproductions“ 

How to order copies of Cartographic and Architectural records: Ordering Reproductions of Maps, Plans, and Aerial Photographs

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New Sources of classic Pulp and Horror fiction magazines on the Internet

Just one of the Zines in the Hevelin Project A posting by John Shirley on the Lovecraft Eternal group on Facebook tipped me to the efforts to digitize a voluminous collection of old paper magazines for a library collection at the University of Iowa. The original collector was Rusty Hevelin, a noted collector of pulp magazines. Hevelin began collecting pulp magazines in the 1930s when they were…

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