Who should use this database?

Those looking for photographs and graphics on all news subjects.

What kinds of materials are referenced in the database?

Photos, graphics, and news text are stored in separate databases that are searchable from a single web page. The photo archive is the most important component, containing 750,000 files that reach back to 1840. There are also 800,000 news text files that date from January 1997, and 13,760 graphics from January 1999.

Authorized Uses:

(1) Printed copies of images for book reports, term papers, theses, class handouts and research,
(2) Power Point™ type presentations, overhead projections, slide shows, and other similar multimedia presentations whose usage is confined to the licensed institution,
(3) Transmitting an individual image to an authorized e-mail user,
(4) Archive photographs shall not be used or published in newspapers, magazines, brochures, catalogs, commercial announcements, calendars, posters, yearbooks, playbills, newsletters, on t-shirts, or promotional items, or for commercial use or gain of any kind.

Photo Examples:

The Dalai Lama, center, is given an honorary degree by Charles Geschke, left, chairman of the University of San Francisco, and Stephen Privett, right, president of the university, at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003. The Dalai Lama was given a degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Mohandas K. Gandhi, center seated, is surrounded by workers in his law office in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1902. Gandhi, the country's first lawyer who is a person of color to be admitted to the bar, spent most of his 20 years in South Africa protesting the treatment of Indians by the British. The others in the photo are not identified. (AP Photo)

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