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Why use this database?

  • World’s largest online collection of current and historical photographs. Sole source of the Associated Press’ 150 year old archive--a vast collection of over 750,000 searchable photos.

  • Includes state, regional, and national photos from North America, as well as the best international photos, updated daily. Also features historical figures, political leaders, sports greats, and celebrities.

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EDUCATIONAL TERMS OF USE: You are granted access solely for the purpose of electronically viewing individual photographs and images in the Multimedia Archive, making laser or desk jet prints of such content at no more than 72 dots per inch, and you are allowed the permitted uses below.


[YES] You ARE permitted the use of digital copies of images for curriculum-related PowerPoint presentations, slideshows, overhead projection and/or RIT closed-circuit broadcasts. Your audience must be members of the RIT community solely.

[YES] You ARE permitted to use printed copies for book reports, term papers, theses, class handouts and for research.

[YES] You ARE allowed to use photos on "intranet" web sites for a limit of one academic quarter. "Intranet" is defined as a secure web site available only to faculty/staff/students of RIT and is closed off from the Internet and/or Wide World Web (WWW).

[NO] You may NOT transmit/download/print the images to/for any non-RIT person.

[NO] AP Photos may NOT be used for any commercial or business related purpose whatsoever.

[NO] AP Photos are NOT allowed in newspapers, magazines, brochures, catalogs, commercial announcements, calendars, posters, yearbooks, playbills, newsletters, t-shirts, or promotional items, or for commercial use or gain of any kind.

[NO] Images are NOT to be manipulated nor can derivative works be created. Exception: reducing or enlarging the size of the complete image is an allowed manipulation.


Violations can result in suspension or cancellation of this database for the entire campus as well as the personal sanctions outlined in the RIT Code of Conduct for Computer and Network Use.



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