About Our Contributor's Corner

Are you interested in contributing an item about a state capitol for display in our Contributors' Corner? Maybe you have a great photo or postcard, or you want to write your own impressions from your trip?

Please understand you must own the rights to any work before you can legally submit it for display on this site. In other words, if your Aunt Susie gave you a great picture she took at a capitol during her last visit, she, as the photographer, owns the rights to the photo, not you. If you bought a postcard you would like to scan and share, it would have to have been published in 1922 or earlier to definitely be legally available for display on this site. (In this case, we all own the rights to the old postcard because it would be in the "Public Domain.") If your brother wrote the most wonderful description of a capitol he saw on a school trip, he owns the rights to what he wrote. Maybe your artistic neighbor drew a great picture . . . you get the idea. All creative works are owned by their creators and are not legally available for public display by anyone else unless the creator has given them specific permission, or until they are in the Pulic Domain.

All submissions must include ownership information.

Photos and Artwork - tell us who the photographer/artist was, how to contact him/her, and when (at least approximately) the photo was taken or artwork was created. We need to contact the photographer to get permission to use their work.

Postcards - if there is a postmark or any printed text with a date on the card, be sure it is legible in a scan you send us. Some views can be dated accurately enough based on the building's appearance and/or the style of postcard. We can help you do that.

Written Descriptions or Commentary - tell us who wrote the story or description and how to contact him/her. We need to contact the writer to get permission to use the text.

To get started, send us an email about what you would like to contribute, and we'll work it out with you.

How To Contact Us

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