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Unless copyright
information is stated in the the image caption, all of the material in the
FDR Library Digital Archives and on this site belongs in the public domain.
This means that it is not protected by copyright law and may be used by the
on-line researcher, teacher, or student, freely, without concern about
infringing on someone else's copyright. Users of on-line material should be
aware, however, that it is still necessary to acknowledge the source of
documents, photographs and other historical material by proper citation.
Example of image caption with copyright information provided:
Celebrity attendees of the Birthday Ball: (l. to r.) Eleanor Roosevelt,
Karen Anson, Robert Clark, Mark Renovitch. White House, Washington, DC, January 30, 1944.
Citing Primary Resource Materials In General The preferred method of citation for primary resource documents is to first identify by specific description the date and nature of the document, then identify the folder title, the series (groupings of documents), the collection, and finally the institution. A good rule of thumb is that things are cited in ascending order, from smallest to largest. Example: Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Frances Perkins, January 10, 1939; Folder: Perkins, Frances, 1939; Correspondence with Government Departments, 1939; Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York.
We discourage
the use of box numbers in the citation because over time collections can be
re-boxed into different sized containers. However, the original order never
changes, so the other information provides the exact location of the
document regardless of the box.
Citing Written Material from the FDR Library Digital Archives
A typical
citation should read as follows:
Citing Photographs from the FDR Library Digital Archives
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