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This is a site which takes images in the public domain, adds a watermark and charges for reprints.
by thekevan 10y ago
This is a site which takes images in the public domain, adds a watermark and charges for reprints.
- buserror 10y agoIt used to be better TBH -- you had access to all of the images high resolution versions (enough for print quality); now it seems you don't. Seems their 'angle' is that the process often useless images into nice ones -- it's true, it's not easy to do something with bad quality scan, but I agree with the other posts that it's now way too overloaded with ads. Still, they found, treated and published some marvelous images, so they do get some credit for that.
- Nomentatus 10y agoTrue. Ever tried to search the National Archives online? It ain't no fun at all. Shorpy's search function is merely poor, so I tend to use it.