"What CherithInks" website requested use of Raymond Weeks photos

The owner of the website What CherithInks has asked to be able to use photos from the HMdb marker page: Raymond Weeks - Founder National Veterans Day for the Ready Press. She will be highlighting the Raymond Weeks - National Veterans Day Memorial.

The photos were taken in Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County) on December 5th, 2021. The photos include this stone monument:

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) requests use of photo on the Smithsonian Institution’s digital exhibition site.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is preparing for the exhibit Make Good the Promises on the Smithsonian Institution’s digital exhibition site, the Searchable Museum. The initiative will offer rich interactive, digital experiences based on NMAAHC’s exhibitions, historical collections, narratives, and educational resources.  

Their licensing request is for the photo of the historical marker "1866 Memphis Massacre". The photo was taken on April 8th, 2015 and was sponsored by the Memphis NAACP and the National Park Service. Additional photos and information is located here: 1866 Memphis Massacre Marker

NPS Requests Photo for National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom FB Page

A Visual Information Specialist & National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Park Ranger of the Everglades National Park requested to use my July 26th, 2015 HMdB photo of Wallace Turnage. He was a a self-emancipated freedom seeking slave whose journey to freedom inspires all.

The photo was posted on the NPS Facebook page and came from this HMdb page: Wallace Turnage marker - part of the African-American Heritage Trail of Mobile, Alabama.

 

Photo requested for a book about the Civil War

An author from San Jose, California is working on a book about the Civil War and requested permission to use a photo from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) entitled DeValls Bluff in the Civil War located in DeValls Bluff, Prairie County, Arkansas.

The photo is dated August 3rd, 2016 and is part of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission erected 145 markers as part of the anniversary.

Teaching for Change organization requests use of photo for publication "Putting the Movement back into Civil Rights Teaching"

The Communications Manager from the organization Teaching for Change requested use of a photo from the historical marker Wilhelmina Jakes And Carrie Patterson: Initiators of The Tallahassee Bus Boycott Marker located in Tallahassee, Florida and taken on December 6th, 2014.

They were granted a worldwide reprint permission license, as well as permission to post the image on their website, CivilRightsTeaching.org.

The Facilitator of a NJ Middle School Black Girl Affinity Group requests use of photos for video documentary.

Photos from a HMdb marker entitled "Kinfolks' Corner" will be used for a short documentary video about an African-American family that migrated north from Alabama during The Great Migration. The images and video documentary would be used for educational purposes only at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey (specifically to support middle school student learning about African-American history).

The marker was placed by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Charter Foundation. The photos are dated February 8th, 2014.

UK ITN Productions requests use of Poverty Point photos for streaming TV series on ancient civilisations.

One of the future streaming TV episodes for the United Kingdom Independent Television News (ITN) streaming TV is proposed to be on ancient civilisations and feature Poverty Point.  They are interested in one of the nearby State of Louisiana Ancient Mound markers entitled Lower Jackson Mound near Epps in West Carroll Parish.

I mentioned to them about other Poverty Point markers they may want to look at as well. The photos are dated Oct. 25, 2017.