Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration/Requests/Archive 1

USS Arizona
resolved Well gee, this page is a lot busier than I anticipated. If you can't get to these, don't fret. I'm in the process of rewriting USS Arizona (BB-39) with another editor, and I've found a few images from the National Archives in a book which would be very nice to include in the article. Their local identifying numbers are 19-N-3340, 19-N-3340A (both photographs of Arizona's launch), and 19-N-1977 (would be perfect as a lead image in the article!). Alternatively a good-quality scan of would work as a lead image too. Thanks so much – I really appreciate what you're doing, and I'm sure the rest of Wikipedia does too. Regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:07, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Will look to see if we have these available as prints and not glass negs, which requires lab reproduction.  I'm pretty sure one of those is a print. BcNARApix (talk) 16:33, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I could also scan them out of the book if you can confirm they are in the public domain, but they'd be of a much lower quality (book spines and scanners don't work well together!). :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:54, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I can also easily get the high-quality scan file for that last one, since it is already digitized. Dominic·t 17:56, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops Dominic, I missed number 4 and didn't check to see if the other three were listed on ARC/OPA. Do you know of a quick way to know which ones you have via the ERA/ARC/etc projects, so I can defer to you on them as opposed to taking the time to do a search, or is it just assume if there's a digital copy on those systems that you have the TIFF?  BcNARApix (talk) 22:23, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That is something that I still need to find out myself. My current assumption is that if a digitized version exists in full on ARC, I can at least get the high-resolution JPEG. (For textual documents, though, sometimes these digitizations are a couple of pages and they were never scanned in total.) I haven't had as much luck with locating the TIFFs for all these digitized documents because there seems to be some difficulty in finding where some of them are stored. In this case, however, I can recognize from the file name (two-digit batch name, hyphen, then four-digit code for the sequence in which they were scanned) that it comes from a particular cache of TIFF files that I personally have access to. Dominic·t 23:54, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you've done anything with these images yet, but if 19-N-1978 is easier to find (although I suspect it's right next to the other one...), that would be just as good as N-1977. I just found N-1978 hidden near the back of the book. Sorry for all the trouble. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:15, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Request should be completed now, see below. BcNARApix (talk) 02:31, 29 June 2011 (UTC)


 * You are both awesome. The launch image is exactly what I was looking for – a shot of the launch itself that also showcased the large number of attendees. Either one of the other two images will be just as good as 19-N-1977/1978 at the head of the article. I'll leave both of you a note when I've added the photos and the article is complete. Thanks very much for your help. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You are both awesome. The launch image is exactly what I was looking for – a shot of the launch itself that also showcased the large number of attendees. Either one of the other two images will be just as good as 19-N-1977/1978 at the head of the article. I'll leave both of you a note when I've added the photos and the article is complete. Thanks very much for your help. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You are both awesome. The launch image is exactly what I was looking for – a shot of the launch itself that also showcased the large number of attendees. Either one of the other two images will be just as good as 19-N-1977/1978 at the head of the article. I'll leave both of you a note when I've added the photos and the article is complete. Thanks very much for your help. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You are both awesome. The launch image is exactly what I was looking for – a shot of the launch itself that also showcased the large number of attendees. Either one of the other two images will be just as good as 19-N-1977/1978 at the head of the article. I'll leave both of you a note when I've added the photos and the article is complete. Thanks very much for your help. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You are both awesome. The launch image is exactly what I was looking for – a shot of the launch itself that also showcased the large number of attendees. Either one of the other two images will be just as good as 19-N-1977/1978 at the head of the article. I'll leave both of you a note when I've added the photos and the article is complete. Thanks very much for your help. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)