This page is for requesting photos for things in or related to the Derby Museums (see the project page GLAM/DER). If you find an image that can be made available with a suitable licence on Commons, please add a link and mark the request as {{done}}.
Derby Museums have expressed a willingness to help with supplying images of an appropriate resolution wherever possible. Do not hesitate to make requests direct to the Museum if images cannot be found elsewhere, but bear in mind that staff are new to Wikipedia and may be uncertain how to proceed. If you want to take and donate the picture yourself then thank you, but it would be wise to leave the tripod at home. Loading them into commons is best but another site like Flickr is OK as long at the license is attribution only. (Share alike is the only other acceptable addition to a donated picture).
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This article mentions examples of Phosgenite in the Museum's collection and these and any other rare minerals on display might be useful in Commons and would have no copyright issue. Fæ (talk) 14:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try and get our phosgenite specimen out for 9th April. Our huge Matlockite specimen is now on display, but I can make pictures freely available.Parkywiki (talk) 00:52, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Hippo skeleton found in Allenton is an interesting story. Some pictures of the exhibit in the museum and of the sculpture in Allenton would be useful. I have a draft article that needs illustration. Victuallers (talk) 11:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Give me the image names of the specific files if there are any good ones from the set I sent you, and I'll upload them to Flickr under CC_Share Alike (if that's the correct name) I have now found the images of when I took the Hippo teeth and bones for laser-scanning at Loughborough Uni. Some good images of the sculpture itself in Allenton Shopping centre would be helpful for both the Hippo article and the Allenton page, I suspect Parkywiki (talk) 15:58, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You don't have to be a wikipedean to contribute. Some photographers find loading pictures into wikimedia commons tricky. If you want to load the pictures into Flickr then thats fine. Can you make sure
The license is attribution only or attribution and share alike (click creative commons at the bottom of a Flickr page to find out how). Wikipedia cannot use the picture if it is tagged with no derivs or non commercial only
Can you tag your pictures with Derby Museums and GLAMWIKI so we can find them
The furniture did not come from Exeter House, it is a bit of a mixed bag! The table is not a real table hence the cloth to hid, the chairs come from the Victoria and Albert Museum (their permission required for photography of them I'm afraid)and other things come from the museum collection. The room is currently closed so we can not take a new photograph that you could use freely until it is back together, in the summer I expect.
This could be used on many wikis to illustrate articles on Carausius and the "third century crisis" -- with a mention of the museum in the caption! Also any photogenic Roman item from a Derby site. Andrew Dalby10:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This is something worth talking to us about on Saturday. I am sure that we can sort you out what you need. DerbyJonathan
Is this it? [see image]
It could well be; but the image puzzles me. Both could be of the same coin (which, then, according to my admittedly old and incomplete catalogue would be an extremely rare one) but, in the world as we know it, they can't be of the same coin! So what's happened here? Did Derby Museums buy two of them? Or is one or both an electrotype?
The image of the obverse (the portrait head) is quite nice, and thank you very much; the reverse, unluckily, shows reflection from the surface of the plastic pocket.
Done
Joseph Wright, "Interior of a Glass House (no 1)", c. 1770-1772. Pen and brown ink and grey wash on paper. There is an online source on this picture, so someone could start an article if we had an image. Andrew Dalby10:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
We have no (or very little) pictures from Pickford House - there is interest in costume. Is it possible to release a variety of relevant pictures to inspire articles? Victuallers (talk) 08:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
New article Alfred E. Goodey could do with picture of his portrait and a snap of the painting store showing the 500 paintings in racks? Any extra facts? What does the E stand for?, where was he born/ died (and ref) Victuallers (talk) 08:10, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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