I need an online source of public domain "before" and "after" weight
loss photographs. These need to be images of people photographed
during the years between 1900 through 1940.

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Request for Question Clarification by alienintelligence-ga on 03 Aug 2002 01:48 PDT

Hi chetday...

This has proven to be a difficult
if not impossible question to fulfill.
I can only find 1 or 2 requirements
at a time.

Yes, I can find public domain weight
loss images before and after.

Yes, I can find public domain images
of people from the 1900's-1940's

I can even find some of these sources
online...

BUT, if you want to find weight loss
comparison shots of people who are
authentically from the past, and
find those images online, and have
them free for commercial use...
I don't think its out there. I'd
be happy to eat a helping of crow
if another researcher can turn
some up.

Any source that will be truly
authentically identifiable will
probably have a cost associated
with it. 

Which brings me to my final idea
for you. Have you tried microfilm
archives of magazines and newspapers?
There is a really good chance that
you could get reprint permissions
for very little cost. Not only that, 
you will be able to verify the year
range by issue date. Some of the people
in the articles could even be around
for you to interview.

If you haven't found a source
already, I'd be willing to search
for archived images. But per your
specifications in the question, 
they might not be online, and they
probably won't be free. If you
don't mind paying for them, I can
probably come up with something.

I wish I could help you more 
with this. I like to find impossible
things, but this was quite at
the edge. Thanks for the 'workout'
though. ;-)


-Search strategy-
I looked at every page on the net with
photos of people on them that could have
even possibly remotely shown weight loss.
At least it felt like it ;0)

"weight loss images"
[ ://www.google.com/search?q=%22weight+loss+images%22 ]

"weight loss" pictures historical
[ ://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=%22weight+loss%22+pictures+historical
]

early "weight loss" pictures 
[ ://www.google.com/search?q=early+%22weight+loss%22+pictures+&num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off
]

"weight loss" photos
[ ://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=%22weight+loss%22+photos
]

This is just a brief excerpt of the searches
I did on google, using every combo and spelling
of weight loss, weightloss, before, after, photo,
picture, clipart, public domain, historical
weightloss, etc, etc


One last question... I should have
asked a while back, how many
photo "pairs" did you need? One
pair male and female, two pair,
more? 

Wish I had more to offer this time,
please feel free to ask us more
questions in the future.

-AI

By public domain are you implying free?
Is this for commercial or non-commercial
use? You stated a year range, is there
a gender preference? How about a nationality
preference? We don't have to verify their
integrity considering their age, right?
Photo quality re: age?

Also... I would presume you don't want any
"joke images" or any "pudgy boy, muscular man"
images?

By online you mean, contact the source
online, or all transactions have to be
carried out online? 

-AI

By public domain are you implying free?

Yes, so they can be used without royalties if I write a book on the
topic of weight loss during the 1900-1940 time period.

Is this for commercial or non-commercial use? 

Commercial.

You stated a year range, is there a gender preference? How about a
nationality
preference? We don't have to verify their integrity considering their
age, right? Photo quality re: age?

No gender perference, though the ideal would be samples of both men
and women. Nationality needs to be American. No verification of age
required. Photo quality doesn't have to be pristine, but it needs to
be decent enough for reproduction.

 
Also... I would presume you don't want any "joke images" or any "pudgy
boy, muscular man" images?

Correct. I'm looking for legitimate "before" and "after" weight loss
photos as would typically have been used to promote diet programs in
American from 1900-1940.
 
By online you mean, contact the source online, or all transactions
have to be
carried out online?  

Ideally, everything needs to be done online.

Thank you for helping me clarify what I'm looking for.