1) This project was a lot of work! I didn't think it was going to be that hard to find photos I could actually use. I definitely gained an appreciation for people who do this for a living. I found a ton of great photos that I wanted to use but there was a problem. Most of those photos didn't have any information to go a long with them. I had no idea who they belonged to or if they were under copyright. The Wikimedia Commons and other digital archives allowed me to find photos as well as all the information to go along with them. It would have been way easier if I could have just used any random photo I found when I Googled my topic, but I wouldn't have gained anything from doing that.
2) The point of this project was for us to find photos in the public domain and to realize how hard it is to find those photos. There are so many photos out there that are either under copyright and not available for all to use, or photos that don't have any information to back them up.
There are also a lot of photos available in the public domain and in digital archives that we are free to use. I had a hard time finding photos from archives that I liked. Did anyone else have this problem? The ones from the NYPL were all really old and I wanted photos that were a little more up to date.
I also think the point of this project was to get us to really understand copyright and public domain. Making the table showed me what has to be done to prove I am able to use the image.
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