1. USING ONLINE IMAGE COLLECTIONS
Annabel Astbury & Dean Groom
HTAV Annual Conference, July 2010

2. WHO IS THIS FOR?
This presentation is for
humanities teachers who are
interested in discovering online
picture collections and getting
some ideas of how to use them
in a history classroom.

3. PICTURE AUSTRALIA
www.pictureaustralia.org.au

4. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/

5. WWII POSTER
COLLECTION
http://
www.library.northwestern.edu

6. WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources#Historical_images

7. FLICKR: THECOMMONS
http://www.flickr.com/commons/

8. WHAT CAN I USE?
• Copyright issues
• Public domain
• Referencing
• Make image *sourcing* part
of the task

9. ANALYSING IMAGES
• Provenance: where does it
come from?
• Content: literal and symbolic
elements
• Context: What
was
happening when this was
produced?
• Function: Why
was it
produced? Who was its likely
audience?

10. ANALYSING IMAGES 2.0

11. Photo credits:
Slide
1.Untitled, © Mike Haufe - Fotolia.com Paid image.
2. Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair, Powerhouse Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of
Raymond W Phillips, 2008, accessed via ‘The Commons’ via Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2980051095/
9. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/a2/20060805084709!Tom_Roberts_-_Shearing_the_Rams.jpg
3.