About the Collection
Images in the West Florida Photohistory come from the various holdings of the Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida. The Department holds some 750 collections of papers of families, businesses, organizations, and individuals including Florida Governor Sidney Catts and a number of congressmen from Florida. The Department is also the University Archives for the University of West Florida. Collections emphasize the history and development of the West Florida region, the Florida Panhandle including lumber and timber industries, shipping, railroads, military presence (Naval Aviation, Air Force), history of education, and other topics.
The “West Florida Photohistory” component is a composite photograph collection of images taken from many different individual archival collections, and will also include images contributed from collaborators with UWF’s historic preservation iniatives.
The initial contribution to “West Florida Photohistory” is the Bell Collection, a group of 7,500 glass plate negatives, from Pensacola photographer H. Lee Bell, and possibly an earlier photographer, George Turton, for whom Bell worked before opening his own studio circa 1911. These images show Pensacola people as well as visitors, tourists, and others including Florida Governors, ministers, priests, families, children, and weddings, circa 1900-1920.
Technical Aspects
DIGITIZATION OF MATERIALS
The Bell Glass Plate Negatives are comprised of original glass plate negatives from the Special Collections department at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida. The collection is comprised of over 7500 individual plates ranging in size from 5x7 to 8x10.
DIGITIZATION
Digitization of the Collection was performed using a Umax PowerLook 2100 XL scanner with a transparency media adaptor. All original scans were captured in 24 bit color at 600 pixels per inch resolution. From these master TIFF images, full-size grayscale TIFF, full-size JPEG2000, and JPEG thumbnail images are derived using an Adobe Photoshop macro. These derived images all conform to nationally established guidelines and are eventually uploaded for display on the web. The color master TIFF images will eventually be uploaded to the FCLA Digital Archive.
CATALOGING & METADATA
Metadata information for each image is pulled from a local database created by the John C. Pace Library Special Collections Department. MARC records for each image are created by FCLA when the packages are processed.
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Copyright Information
COPYRIGHT AND USE OF MATERIALS
Copyright to images in the West Florida Photohistory collection rest with the University of West Florida which grants permission for these images to appear in PALMM collections. The digital images may be used for research, instruction and private study as described under Fair Use as allowed below.
FAIR USE
Unless additional restrictions are noted, copyrighted electronic materials in this collection may be used for research, instruction, and private study under the provisions of Fair Use. Fair Use is a provision of United States Copyright Law (United States Code, Title 17, section 107) which allows limited use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. Factors to be considered whether a particular use falls under Fair Use include:
- The purpose or character of the use;
- The nature of the copyrighted work;
- The amount and substantiality of the work being used;
- The effect of the use on the market for and value of the original.
Under Fair Use you may view, print, photocopy, and download images from this site without prior permission, provided that you provide proper attribution of the source on all copies.
For any other use of these electronic materials, including but not limited to display, publication and commercial use, permission of the copyright holder must be obtained.
There are several good sources of information about copyright and Fair Use on the web. For additional information, you may want to start with the Smathers Library Copyright Reference Page, or the Copyright Management Center, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.
ATTRIBUTION OF SOURCE
Citations, quotations, and use of images in this collection made under Fair Use or with permission of the copyright holder must acknowledge their source. Proper attribution includes the name of the resource, the name of the Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida, and the URL of the digital collection homepage. For example: Mrs. Martin Anderson, photograph, Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida, http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/wfp.
PERMISSION FOR USE
Users assume all liability for copyright infringement and are advised to contact the institution holding the source materials for copyright information and permission to use the electronic versions. Permission must be obtained in writing by application to Special Collections, University of West Florida Libraries, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514, for display, publication, commercial use, or any other use of the digital materials in this collection except as allowed under Fair Use.
Contact Information
Please contact the following team members:
- Frederic Barry
Project Manager & Technical Contact
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
fbarry@uwf.edu
850.857.6157 - Dean Debolt
Special Collections
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
ddebolt@uwf.edu
850.474.2213 - Ray Uzwyshyn
Head, Digital and Learning Technologies
University of West Florida Libraries
University of West Florida
ruzwyshyn@uwf.edu
850.474.2448
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West Florida History Images in the West Florida Photohistory come from the various holdings of the Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida. The Department holds some 750 collections of papers of families, businesses, organizations, and individuals including Florida Governor Sidney Catts and a number of congressmen from Florida. Collections emphasize the history and development of the West Florida region, the Florida Panhandle including lumber and timber industries, shipping, railroads, military presence (Naval Aviation, Air Force), history of education, and other topics.
