Click here to learn more about these ways to participate.

There are numerous ways:

1. Share: Contact us to make arrangements to have your images scanned. We love looking through family and business photographs and find that many people are too selective about what they choose to share. Set up an appointment to let us view and copy your images.
2. Host a Scan-a-Thon:  See the question “Can our organization host a Scan-a-thon in our community?”
3. Scan and Email us your photos:  See the question “Can I scan and e-mail my photos to you?”
4. Volunteer: We need more volunteers or local coordinators. See “Can I be a volunteer?”
5. Donate funds to help us continue: The Indiana Album is partially funded by a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) Grant from the Indiana State Library/Indiana Memory and a Humanities Initiative Grant from Indiana Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Help us match these grants with a small or large gift. All donations are tax -deductible!

We are looking for daguerreotypes, tintypes, postcards, drawings, graphics, etc. depicting:

• Buildings and architectural elements
• Houses/Farms
• Churches/Schools
• Street Scenes
• Urban Development
• Portraits of Well-Known People
• Businesses
• Transportation
• Clubs & Organizations
• Construction
• Events
• Indiana Pioneers
• Industry

Check the list of scheduled events on the calendar above. If you would like to sponsor or host a scan-a-thon, contact us using the form above.

If your organization, neighborhood association, alumni group, or church would like to host a scan-a-thon event, where the public brings along photographs to be scanned while they wait, we will bring our equipment and volunteers to your site. Our mission is preservation, so we also provide workshops on image preservation and dating old photographs. Contact us about our reasonable fees.

No. Our goal is to make privately owned photographs available to the public. Museum, library, and archive collections are already available to the public. However, we encourage institutions wanting to get their collections digitized to contact us to discuss other options such as grants that may be available to them.

Absolutely! We need more volunteers or local coordinators throughout the state. Do you have any of these skills?

1. Scanning: We often use volunteers to scan from home or operate scanners at the scan-a-thons
2. Cataloging/metadata (describing photographs): Experience with PastPerfect cataloging software is especially desirable, but not required
3. Research and editing: Help us with mystery images or proofreading
4. Marketing and outreach
5. Administrative and organizing: We especially need people at the local level to help arrange scan-a-thons and/or coordinate the scanning and sending of images from all counties
6. Fundraising

Contact us to discuss how we can best use your talents and time.

Yes! We would love that, but understand that not every image we receive will be included in the Album!  Here are our scanning guidelines:

• Scan the whole image (including mount) and leave a small border
• Scan the back too if it has information or handwriting
• If the photo is larger than a postcard, scan it at 100% size / 24 bit color / 600 ppi (pixels per inch); if postcard size or smaller, use the same settings except adjust the resolution to 1200 ppi
• Do not enhance, color correct, sharpen, add text or otherwise alter the image when scanning…we want the raw scan, not a Photoshopped improvement
• Save the scan as a TIFF (ideally not a JPEG, which compresses and loses detail)
• Download and fill out this simple deed of gift form, and use it to provide the full details to help us catalog each image (location, address, full names, dates, event, caption written on the back, etc.)
• Send the digital file(s) and a scan of the completed deed of gift form to us via WeTransfer.com. Put info@indianaalbum.com in the “friend’s email” box  and write a message giving any additional information not included on the deed of gift form
• Most important, do not hesitate to ask if you need help: info@indianaalbum.com

The Indiana Album is made possible by the generosity of our many supporters. As a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization donations are tax exempt. Please use the donate button below to make an online contribution, or mail checks written to the Indiana Album to: The Indiana Album, 716 Dorman Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202. Other forms of support include deferred gifts, matching donations from employers, sponsorships, program honorariums and the sale of high resolution scans. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of these other forms of support. [contact-form][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Website’ type=’url’/][contact-field label=’Comment’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][/contact-form] 

Yes.  All of our images are available in three different formats and depending on your choice of format and circumstances there may be a charge. See below for descriptions of the formats and price information.

LOW-RES: You have permission to download and use the low-resolution (72 ppi) image that appears in our online database without charge. For use in term papers, on web pages, or sharing via e-mail this resolution is usually adequate. If you are uncertain how to capture the image from the webpage, let me know and I’ll be happy to walk you through the very simple process. The photo is provided free of charge, but it should not be published without first obtaining written permission from The Indiana Album, Inc.

HIGH-RES: In order to defray the expense of scanning, cataloging, and web-hosting the Indiana Album collection we charge a nominal fee for high resolution images and prints. Our high-resolution digital TIFF files provide the sharpest image and are best for publications, enlargements for use in exhibitions, or situations where being able to examine small details in an image are important. Most can be enlarged to poster size without pixilating. Students may use our high resolution images without charge. All others, please see our price sheet (http://indianaalbum.com/prices) to determine the cost for your use.

PRINTS: If you prefer an actual paper print instead of a digital file, the charge is $10 for any size up to and including an 8×10” image. See our price sheet for your specific use.

PAYMENT: We require payment prior to filling orders. Payment may be made by mailing a check made out to The Indiana Album to Indiana Album, 716 Dorman Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202. An alternative is to pay online via the donation button below. Once we have received your payment, print orders will be shipped via the USPS; digital files via the WeTransfer.com website.

If you have any questions or comments re our policies or procedures, please send them to orders@indianaalbum.com.  And if you have photographs that you would care to share with others via the Indiana Album, please let us know that too.