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Mary Evans launches user generated content site The History Album
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialty library featuring historical images has taken a leap into the world of user generated content with a new site called The History Album. The site is designed as a place for users to upload and share scanned photographs with the world and order prints. Users can also comment and add essential keywords which will make them searchable.
Launched at the National History Show at Olympia, in London, earlier this month, The History Album is designed to bring to light photographs which form a unique view of our heritage and would otherwise remain unseen. “Our heritage is there to be discovered and shared,” says Paul Brown, Managing Director at Mary Evans Picture Library. “Although we are a commercial business, we wanted to start The History Album because we felt there was no other online facility which made the sharing of photographs, the sharing of history and connecting with the past so accessible, and which would be backed by a high level of historical expertise.”
Web: TheHistoryAlbum.com
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