Terms of Use

Items in Voices of the Eastern Shore may be protected by copyright, but most are within the public domain. The contents of Voices of the Eastern Shore collections are made publicly available by contributing repositories for use in research, teaching, and private study.

Although the nature of archival and manuscript collections sometimes makes it difficult to determine the copyright status of an item, it is the end user’s responsibility to use it according to all applicable terms. Please contact the contributing repository for additional information regarding copyright status of a particular digital image. The Voices of the Eastern Shore project will make contact information for contributing partners publicly available.

By their use of these digital images, users agree to follow these conditions of use. Responsibility for any use of these materials rests exclusively with the user. When using an item from Voices of the Eastern Shore, give proper credit to the collection-owning repository and the Voices of the Eastern Shore website.

Citation example:

[Title of item]. Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968, Accession #2338, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Accessed: https://voicesoftheeasternshore.org