Your school project sounds very interesting, and I wish you the best of success with it.

            To answer your first question about students requesting digital images, I receive maybe one or two requests a month from middle or high school students. I also receive requests from college students. The majority of our requests (about 5 to 10 daily) are from journalists, university professors, book publishers, and documentary filmmakers.

            The Photo Archives provides 8" by 10" glossy prints of most of the 65,000 photographs in our collection for $16.00. Digital files -- on a CD, through email, or through a FTP site -- are also available for purchase. The money we charge covers our cost to reproduce the image for a client. This is a service that the Museum, a federal institution, provides to anyone who requests it. The turnaround time to receive an order is generally two weeks for prints, and a few days for digital orders.

            Photographs that are in the public domain or owned by the Museum can be reproduced without paying a copyright fee. Many, but not all, of the images on our website are in this category. Other photographs in our collection carry more restrictions, such as you have to pay a certain amount of money (usually between $15 and $150) to a source archive or the photographer to use an image, or that you need to contact another source archive directly to obtain permission to use an image.

            Regarding your question about linking to our website, I must refer you to the head of the Museum's "Outreach Technology" Department, Arnold Kramer (Akramer@ushmm.org). If you like to purchase a photograph of the Museum building, kindly contact my colleague, Lindsay Harris (Lharris@ushmm.org, or #202-488-6171) who handles such requests.

            I hope I have answered your questions fully. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to write again.

Sincerely,
Chris Sims
Photo Research Coordinator