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7. Illustrative Material: I need several pictorial images to use as illustrations. Like many other repositories, Manuscripts & Archives makes selected images in its collections available in a database searchable through the Web. Our database is called MADID and is the first place to start a search for illustrative material. It will be particularly useful to researches seeking images of Yale events, the campus, and students, faculty, and alumni/ae.
The Help screen for the database gives tips for searching. If you do not find an appropriate image in the database, you will need to search Orbis for leads to collections that may contain pictorial images on your subject. Try searching for forest-related images. SEARCH QUERY:
Note that the search has retrieved manuscript records and archival records.
Sample record:
In a keyword search you can combine terms for a topic and a form of material. This, however, will not always produce the desired result since a record may include both the terms "photographs" and "forest" which can be independent of each other. A collection can be about forestry but the term "photographs" refers to pictures of family members, which are also in the collection.
You can identify additional pictorial material by limiting your search to either Visual Materials as an Item Type or Videorecording as a Medium. Perform each search for "forest?" separately.
You will need to do both searches to be more inclusive. Illustrative material can also be copied from publications. After you have tried this type of searching it might be advisable to consult with the reference archivist. | ||
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