Explore and Use the Cooperative Portal

View and Search

Timeline Display: Advance each image individually with white Right/Left arrows. Click the small double chevrons in the thumbnail timeline to rapidly advance the thumbnail photos 10 images at a time. Hold the double chevron down to slowly crawl through these images.

Grid/Browser Display: Sort through the grid to view a series of photos you have identified into a group.

To search for multiple tags used the Advanced Search Bar at the bottom of the search box and "tag_exact". For example, to search for both of the tags "university" and "basketball", type in tag_exact:university AND tag_exact:basketball. You can also use OR, but this will order the search by relevance rather than chronological order. In this case, photos with both tags are considered more relevant than photos with one or the other.

You can also search captions in the Advanced Search Bar like this: caption:"Iowa state normal school". No space after caption: and wrap the text in quotation marks.

Tag

Every image is (or is in the process of being) categorized according to our 39 controlled "category tags"; the more detailed tagging is up to you. Log in and tag what you see in a picture: horse, corn, bridge, park, picnic...whatever descriptive terms you think will help others find a photo. Tags are vetted, so please tag responsibly. Some words of advice: Be specific and descriptive and think of what people might be inclined to search for. If the general category term is "animal" then a specific, descriptive term someone might search for is "goat" or "racoon" or "dog." Do not tag what you feel; focus on the details in the image. However, if you are too detailed, like “old Methodist church” no one would ever think to search for that term.

Download

Click the “download” button to download any high-resolution Fortepan Iowa image for your own use. Each image has a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA 4.0). This means you are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format), and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) any Fortepan Iowa photograph for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you Attribute and ShareAlike.

To learn more about using downloaded Fortepan Iowa photographs under the CC-BY-SA license, please continue on to the next section, “Create and Attribute.”

Attribute

Fortepan Iowa photos are free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA 4.0). You must always attribute every Fortepan Iowa photograph you use: To ATTRIBUTE a Fortepan Iowa photograph (e.g., FI_2348.jpg,” donated by Lissa Potter), grab the code generated for you as you download the image, which uses the following model:

"FI0001858,” Okoboji, IA, 2000 by Potter, Lissa/Fortepan Iowa, “https://fortepan.us/photos/FI0001858,” CC-BY-SA 4.0.

The ShareAlike mechanism is included in the version 4.0 licenses as follows:

If You Share an Adapted Fortepan Iowa image You produce, the following conditions also apply.
- The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with the same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-SA Compatible License.
- You must include the text of, or the URL or hyperlink to the Adapter's License You apply. You may satisfy this condition in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share Adapted Material.
- You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, Adapted Material that restrict exercise of the rights granted under the Adapter's License You apply.
For more information about how ShareAlike works with Fortepan Iowa photos, Click Here.