Multimedia Collections
Images
Images are taken from three
sources - Getty Images, the Bridgeman Art Library,
and Magnum Photos. All images from these collections in Study Units can be
found using the Multimedia search.
Getty Images are the owners of the Hulton
Archive, which with over 40 million images is one of the largest collections of
photographs and illustrative material in the world, ranging from illustrations
and engravings from the fourteenth century, to photographs from recent years.
The collection is based in
With images from over 8,000
collections and 29,000 artists, the Bridgeman Art Library
is the world's leading source of fine art for image users. It was founded in
1972 and works with museums, art galleries and artists to make art available
for reproduction. The collection includes images of architecture and
anthropological artefacts as well as fine art.
In 1947, four photographers
- Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger,
and David "Chim" Seymour - founded the photographic
agency Magnum Photos. It was set up
as a cooperative in which photographers, rather than magazines, would be in
control - they would have the flexibility to cover subjects of their own choice
and would retain copyright in their images. Today, the Magnum offices maintain
an archive of over a million photos dating back to the 1930s, of which more
than 200,000 are searchable in an online database.
Video
All of the video clips in History Study Center are from the WPA Film Library. All video clips in Study Units can be found using the Multimedia search.
The WPA
Film Library is one of the world's largest archival collections of the
moving-image, with over 60,000 hours of vintage and contemporary film footage.
The library was founded in 1987, and joined the MPI Media Group in 1989, and
since this time WPA holdings have expanded to include a vast amount of high
quality video and film footage. With deep holdings in history, popular culture,
music, geography and news, including the full 3,500 hours of the British Pathé News Collection available on digital masters, this
collection contains a massive amount of historical images from across the
entire span of the twentieth century. All of the masters have been struck from
the original film materials, not second generation duplicates and prints,
meaning that the images are of the best possible quality.
Web sites
Web sites
in History Study Center
have been collected and indexed by an editorial team at ProQuest. Where possible, site owners have been contacted to secure
their permission to link. All sites indexed are freely available on the Web and
are not exclusive to History Study Center. Web links in Study Units will not
necessarily feature in the Multimedia search. This is because Study Units often
link to specific pages within larger sites.
Though great care has been taken to
select materials of the highest quality, links to third party Web sites are
provided solely for informational purposes and as a convenience to our
authorized users. ProQuest as publishers of History Study Center are not responsible for the content of
third-party Web sites to which links have been provided. The links included in History Study Center do not constitute a referral or endorsement
of any product or service advertised or distributed through the linked Web
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