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Preservation Education Curriculum Image Library

Images have been provided to assist you in illustrating most of the lessons. This collection should not be considered the definitive source for preservation images. Rather, use it to enhance your presentations and perhaps update some of your existing images. NEDCC is grateful to the many vendors and institutions—libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies—that were willing to share their photographs for this project.

These photographs are available as 72 dpi JPEG files, which can be downloaded for multimedia presentations in the classroom. You can view the caption and copyright notice for each photograph when you view the enlarged image. These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

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Satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it comes ashore. View of destruction in the main reading room of the Biloxi (Miss.) Public Library after Hurricane Katrina. Photo taken on Sept. 14, 2005. View of destruction in the main reading room of the Biloxi (Miss.) Public Library after Hurricane Katrina, taken from a second-floor balcony. Photo taken on Sept. 14, 2005. These boxes were recovered more than six months after Katrina hit. Most of the documents and photographs were able to be recovered. The beginning of recovery operations at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus library. Mold grows on books shelved in a glass-doored cabinet at the Gulf Coast Research Lab Library. Aisle at the Gulf Coast Research Lab Library. Mold growing on the walls of the Gulf Coast Research Lab Library.