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interroboink ◴[] No.44398354[source]
If anybody just wants to download the hi-res images, Internet Archive is your friend: https://archive.org/details/usda-pomological-watercolor-coll...

You can have fun with 'em since they're public domain (:

Note 1: The metadata, such as title, author, etc. seem to be missing. If anyone knows of a collection with all that included, let me know (it's not in the EXIF either, I spot-checked).

EDIT: aha! Here is metadata, which you can correlate to the image files: https://github.com/Wumms/pomological

Note 2: I saw this in the MARC catalog record:

  Use of the images in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological
  Watercolor Collection is not restricted, but a statement of attribution is
  required. Please use the following attribution statement: "U.S. Department
  of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special
  Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705"
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msla ◴[] No.44398821[source]
I wonder how the USDA can demand anything regarding images created well before the copyright cutoff of 1929. I strongly suspect that's boilerplate text with no actual force.
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1. biker142541 ◴[] No.44401055[source]
Oh definitely no force behind it, but just annoying to see. These kinds of issues don't exactly block usage, but can plant a lot of confusion or hesitation for potential users. I wish agencies proactively embraced "please go use this awesome stuff" mentality vs gatekeeping by default.