The Indiana Album is the Hoosier state's community-submitted digital archive of Indiana-related photographs and documents lingering in albums and attics. See 22,000+ items shared by over 450 people so far: https://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/
We make high-resolution scans of photos, postcards, maps, slides, negatives, illustrations, and other visuals. Subjects include houses, farms, businesses, buildings, churches, street scenes, clubs, schools, pioneers, interesting people, everyday activities, and other subjects that might interest the general public. History has no end date, so we accept current as well as older items. Individuals and students use the online images for FREE for personal and educational purposes (please keep the caption to properly credit our generous lenders). The project is financially supported by donations, grants, and the sale of prints and high resolution scans for commercial use such as books and restaurant displays. Do you have cool Indiana images that we can copy and share with the public? Please contact us at info@indianaalbum or (317) 771-4129. We ask you to fill out a simple info and release form and will give you copies of the scans. Your history makes up the history of our state -- why not share for others to enjoy? HOW TO CONTRIBUTE:
1. Contact us to make arrangements to have your images scanned. We love looking through family, business, and organization photographs and find that many people are too selective about what they share. Set up an appointment to let us view and copy your images.
2. If your organization, neighborhood association, library, museum, alumni group, or church would like to host an "Indiana Album Scan-a-Thon," where members bring along photographs to be scanned while they wait, we can bring our equipment and volunteers to your site.
3. Scan your own photographs to send to us. We can provide full instructions, but basically here are the specifications:
a. Scan the whole image (including mount or border) and leave a small margin of about 1/8" inch
b. Scan the back if it has information or handwriting
c. Scan the photo at 24 bit color / 600 to 1200 ppi (pixels per inch)
d. Do not enhance, color correct, sharpen, or add text to the image (we want the raw scan...not a Photoshopped improvement)
e. Save the scan as a TIF (not a JPEG, which compresses and loses detail; if JPEG is all you have, we will accept it)
f. Since this creates a large file (too large to email), upload the images via the free photo sharing site www.WeTransfer.com. Simply click the "add files" button to locate your photo, put [email protected] in the "friend's email" box, and write a message giving the full description of the attached photo (address, town, full names of people, full or estimated date, event, etc.). Let us know if you need help.
4. We need volunteers. Do you have any of these skills:
a. scanning
b.cataloging (and a good eye for describing photographs)
c. research
d. web page development
e. GIS and mapping
f. marketing or outreach
g. fundraising
We would love to hear from you! The Indiana Album, Inc.
716 Dorman Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
[email protected]
(317) 771-4129
www.indianaalbum.com
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