- Image from the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT):
- Royal typewriter, 1919.
Source: Emory Adams, The New Knowledge Library (Chicago: The S. A. Mullikin Company, 1919) - This image is licensed for educational use by FCIT. All images retrieved June 5, 2007, from http://etc.usf.edu/, specific images’ sites listed separately.
There you go: Legal clip art, properly attributed (though not necessarily properly footnoted — that’s another topic). How can you get more licensed clip art? See below the fold.
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) makes available to teachers for licensed classroom use a sizable collection of clip art, most of it simple line drawings — but not so cartoonish as some. FCIT is a part of the College of Education at the University of South Florida. Unfortunately the clips are in .tiff format, which is sometimes unsuitable for computer projection — use what you can. (Image at left: Millard Fillmore, courtesy FCIT)
The collection features birds, botanical drawings, an extensive and occasionally arcane collection of famous people (including a few versions of Millard Fillmore) — heck, go see for yourself. 
My quest for typewriter pictures — generally I’m looking for the typewriter of a famous person, or one of the many typewriters Ernest Hemingway left strewn across the planet — turned up the very nice picture of a 1919 Royal at the top of this post. These Royals reside in a special place in my heart — they are not far from the Royal my mother used in her business with my father, at their furniture store in Burley, Idaho. In the days before day care in small towns, I was kept busy for many hours with that machine, learning every little trick it had.
Legal clip art is not so plentiful as it ought to be for school teachers making PowerPoint presentations, composing tests, or making worksheets or other materials for classwork. Because teachers need to model the behaviors and actions they want to see in students, teachers should properly attribute images used and respect copyrights. This clip art allows you to do that.
Fair use allows a teacher to use a news article or an image in the classroom, if not for profit. However, under the Millennium Copyright Act, there is an expectation that teachers will use such material once, and seek copyright clearance to use the material a second time. If you are like me, when you find a great copyrighted work to make an exercise from, you want to use it the next time you teach that class. Copyright suggests you must seek clearance, and that will be difficult and time consuming.
Consequently, good sources of licensed copyright should be a gold mine for teachers.
What other sources do you have? Please share.
- Images, above, of Millard Fillmore, three selections of seven different versions available at FCIT. Image, below, of rainfall map of South America, a 1916 map one of many maps available at FCIT. From the FCIT site:
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Restrictions. No commercial use may be made of the clipart on this site without written permission of FCIT. Clipart from this site may not be used to create obscene or scandalous works. Clipart of individuals or businesses may not be used to suggest endorsements of products, services, or activities. Under no circumstances may the clipart on this site be included in any other published clipart collection, whether sold or distributed freely.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
See Millard Fillmore’s accomplishments, or pointers to where you can find them, at this post:
https://timpanogos.wordpress.com/sources-on-millard-fillmore/
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what did he really do?
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You’ve picked up on my typewriters-of-great-people fascination. Thanks for the suggestion!
My note on footnoting is not a criticism of your site. I’ve just never “got” the format for a website footnote. Still working on it. Your site is attributed far better than others, plus you make the art available. FCIT is a goldmine for teachers.
Thanks for the clip art.
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A couple of notes from the Director of FCIT:
1) Actually each of the clipart images is available in four sizes as GIFs, which should work well in projected presentations. The link to the TIFF files is only for those who need a high-res version for printing, not projection.
2) Yes, we are painfully aware that our citations got a bit jumbled in the underlying database. Some of the information is lost so it will take awhile to re-enter the missing data and regenerate the pages, but that is our goal.
3) For a photo of Marjorie Rawlings’ Royal typewriter, visit our “Exploring Florida” website at: http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/photos/historic/rawlin/rawlin07.htm This is another FCIT site of classroom-friendly resources.
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