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FAQ
Photographic Services & Permissions (PSAP) provides reproductions from pre-existing digital files or new photography of material from the Library's world-renowned collections to students, academics and creative professionals in publishing, design, broadcast and other media. We serve a vast array of clients in book, magazine, newspaper and scholarly journal publishing as well as in the television industry, museum world and electronic publishing. PSAP also provides duplicate reels of existing microfilm and provides new microfilming newspapers, journals, and books. The Library’s online Digital Gallery provides a selection of over 450,000 historical pictorial images. Our collections, maintained by our knowledgeable librarians, contain more than 4.0 million images in a variety of formats such as fine prints; manuscript illuminations; maps; photographs; printed ephemera including menus, post cards, posters, lobby and window cards; rare illustrated books; and other pictorial formats. Subjects range from American history, the African-American experience, New York City and surrounding areas, immigrants and Ellis Island, to theater, dance, music, film, science, flora and fauna, lifestyle and travel photography and illustration. Art work by such renowned artists as Monet, Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Gilbert Stuart and Kitagawa Utamaro can be found as well as photographs by Berenice Abbott, Lewis Wicks Hine, Edward Curtis, Vandamm Studio, Friedman-Abeles and Kenn Duncan. Contact for purchasing prints for personal use or licensing images: Photographic Services & Permissions Ph: 212-930-0091; 212-930-0808 Email: permissions@nypl.org Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00AM to 6:00PM Contact for microfilm: Photographic Services & Permissions Ph: 212-930-0808; 212-930-0811 Email: photoservices@nypl.org Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Online Other Digital Collections provide links to the Library’s online exhibitions and smaller more content specific databases. Popular Images provides a small sampling of images from collections such as The World's Fair, Celebrity Portraits, North American Indians, Ellis Island, and Botanicals. Research/Document Delivery You can visit the collections to perform your own picture research or
if you are from out of town or your schedule doesn’t permit contact NYPL
Express the Library’s fee-based research service to hire one of
our professional librarians to do the research for you. Yes. Prints, for personal use, of images in the NYPL Digital Gallery can be purchases directly online. Click here for more information. Prints from images not in the NYPL Digital Gallery are available in either b/w or color, and up to 20"x30". Please call Photographic Services & Permissions at 212-930-0808 for availability, dimensions and fees for oversize prints. To license an image for any type of publication, TV production, exhibition, web site, etc., please click here.
You may download low-resolution images directly from the web site for
personal, research or study purposes for free. This includes classroom
use and student projects. 6. Are your fees available online? Yes, please consult the Library’s Use Fee Schedule . 7. What are your fees based on? Fees vary based on usage parameters such as:
8. What photographic formats are available? 8x10” high quality archival Fujix prints with glossy or matte finish and low-resolution 150dpi JPEG files are available for personal or research use. Other formats may be available by special request for classroom or academic lecture use only. 8x10” high quality archival Fujix prints with glossy or matte finish, high-resolution TIFF files, color transparencies (with a $30 surcharge), and 35mm slides are available for publication and all other uses. Our standard high-resolution specifications for scanning are as follows:
Turnaround time is 2 business days for images found with proper ID numbers from the Library’s web site. Rush service is available with a surcharge of $30 for next business day shipping. For images not found on the web site and from the Schomburg Center, the turnaround time is up to 3 weeks. Rush service is available with a surcharge of $30 with a turnaround time of 5 business days from the time PSAP receives the material from the holding division.
Yes we do, but please be aware that prints are produced from public service copies only and not the master negatives. The quality varies depending on the condition of the microfilm. Scratches and lines that appear on the microfilm will also appear in the photograph. Small text will most likely not be readable in the reproduction. 11. What are the methods of delivery for your images? Prints, transparencies and slides can be shipped via US mail, international airmail, or pick up. Federal Express, Airborne Express, and DHL Express Mail is also an option but only if you supply an account number. Digital Files can be burned to a CD and sent via the above or we can deliver a high-resolution TIFF file by FTP or HTTP download. You will receive an email with the host address, an assigned user ID and a password. Once you have received this information, your files will be accessible to you for up to one week.
Yes, we will but only after you’ve obtained and forwarded to the Library written permission from the rights holder or you’ve documented in writing your “best efforts” to track down the rights holder.
No, we offer a $25 discount per image off the listed fees. For example, the Library charges $100 for non-profit temporary exhibition use. If a reproduction has already been obtained, the usage fee for permission to exhibit the image is $75 ($100 - $25 discount). 14. Once I purchase an image, may I use it any way I like? No. You must request separate rights to reproduce or use images from the collections. For instance, if you plan to use one of our images in a printed scholarly journal as well as the online version, there is an additional fee for the second use. 15. If my publisher issues a new edition of my book, do I have to pay additional fees? Yes, the Library only grants one-time use for any type of book, magazine, or journal publication. You will have to reapply for permission and pay usage fees. For second use, the fees posted are discounted by 25%.
Yes, we do. Please contact Photographic Services & Permissions to request pricing for Beta-cam and VHS dupes and to license footage from the Manuscripts & Archives Division in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Other divisions that supply moving image:
17. Whom do I contact to request permission to quote? For permission to quote from manuscript collections from the Humanities
and Social Sciences Library and the Schomburg Center, please contact the
Office of Special Collections at 212-930-0740. To quote from manuscripts
located in the Performing Arts Library, please contact the holding division
directly. You may link directly to the homepage of the NYPL Digital Gallery or any of the other online digital collections. You will not be able to link directly to an image. If you are interested in a particular image, please see above for information on ordering a reproduction for personal, research, publication, web site, and all other uses. |