Wikipedia:GLAM/British Library/Image requests

This page is for requesting photos or images for things in or related to the British Library (see the project page GLAM/BL). If you find an image that can be uploaded with a suitable free licence on Commons, please add a link and mark the request as {{done}}.

The image needed may exist somewhere on Wikimedia Commons. Relevant images can be can be found at Commons:Category:British Library. If the image has living people in it, then the guidance of Photographs of identifiable people applies.

The British Library has expressed a willingness to help with supplying some images of an appropriate resolution where possible. Do not hesitate to make requests direct to the Museum if images cannot be found elsewhere, but bear in mind that staff are new to Wikipedia and may be uncertain how to proceed. If you want to take and donate the picture yourself then thank you, but it would be wise to leave the tripod at home and most exhibits in the British Museum will not have photography allowed. Photographing items in the collection is strictly against policy for readers and images created by the British Library reprographics department will automatically have protection by contract, though images that have been provided by other staff may have no copyright applicable. Loading images into commons is best but another site like Flickr is OK as long as the license is attribution only. (Share alike is the only other acceptable addition to a donated picture).

If you are looking for help with the content of a hard to find reference, you may find WP:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request a useful alternative noticeboard.

Further guidance on taking photographs (where permitted) in museums, advice on behaviour and some of the issues with licensing is available at Museum photography.

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Completed requests

International Dunhuang Project

It would be nice to have an image showing staff/scholars working on the International Dunhuang Project, for example a picture of visiting scholars at the British Library examining manuscripts or IDP staff digitising manuscripts. A photo of the late Prof. Ksenia Kepping looking at Tangut manuscripts at the BL would be a bonus as I want to write an article on her next. BabelStone (talk) 01:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Chinchen Collection (Lundy stamp collection)

I have been unable to locate any specific images taken from the Chinchen Collection though some general images of similar postage stamps are available. If the opportunity arose, then images of, say, the tramtickets or key forgery examples would provide a unique insight into the type of artefact in the collection. My understanding would be that Crown Copyright is irrelevant (as the stamps were a private initiative) but I would assume that only fair-use would be available for any images as there might be copyright held by the original designer or their estate. Fæ (talk) 13:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Perkins D cylinder Printing Press.jpg deletion

File:Perkins D cylinder Printing Press.jpg is up for deletion as it is under fair use grounds on Wikipedia when it is a replaceable image. I have uploaded File:Perkins D cylinder printing press in the British Library.jpg and will try to take an alternative shot on Tuesday, but if someone has (or can find) a slightly less blurry free image, now would be a good time to release it on Commons. Fæ (talk) 00:29, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot my camera at the last minute. A better photo is still needed, you can find the printing press on display by the Philatelic Collections exhibition area (with the Victorian pull-out vertical brass frames) next to the cafe area on the upper-ground floor. There are no restrictions on photography for the printing press. Fæ (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)

It would help this article, specifically about a key BL artefact having appeared on the Wikipedia main page, to have a better image. There is this BL version: http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=011309 which it would be nice if the BL would provide a free release version at a resolution suitable for this article. Fæ (talk) 14:04, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the Western Circuit

The four illustrations of 'On the Western Circuit' by Walter Paget from English Illustrated Magazine, December 1891, pp. 275-88

The Battle of Dorking

Title image for "The Battle of Dorking" from Blackwoods Magazine, May 1874. Cat C.193.B.18