The Oklahoma link has been added to our "What's New" page also. Be sure to write Joy for permission if you want to use one of her images. mg --- Joy Fisher <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:33:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Joy Fisher <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> > Subject: [USGW-Discuss] Use of the Penny Postcard Archives > To: USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com > > I am writing to wonder aloud why more USGenWeb > volunteers were not asking for permission to use my > postcard images for their project sites. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html > > To date I have received a grand total of 3 requests. > > On the other hand, I get dozens of requests a week > from others. I have provided custom scans for folks > like > > Smithsonian Institution > National Register of Historic Places > National Park Service > State of Arkansas > Many Urban Renewal Projects > Poster for the Cambridge University Orchestra > > Even advertising campaigns for businesses > > All you need to do is come up with a page that will be > enhanced by my scan and write for permission. > > For example: A class list for a local school along > with my postcard of that school. > > I have many disaster postcards (fires, floods, > tornadoes, train wrecks) - and account from the local > newspaper would help explain the image. Train wrecks > after May 1911 are a slam dunk because all of the > investigative reports are on-line. They list crew > members who died, but not passengers or local > citizens. It would be nice to include a newspaper > story with a list of victims. > > So.... why aren't more of you writing for permission?? > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== USGENWEB-DISCUSS Mailing List ==== > --Celebrate the USGenWeb Project! -- Can you identify? > Livery House, Germantown [there are 5 Germantowns in PA] > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/mystery/postcards/livhse.jpg > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html