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Mexican masks in storage

 

Order Photographs of Artifacts

Professional publication-quality prints, transparencies, or high resolution digital images of artifacts in our collections are available from Smithsonian Photographic Services (SPS).

To order photos, start by sending us a list of specific artifacts of interest to you. If possible, provide their catalog numbers. If the artifacts have already been photographed, we will provide the negative numbers you will need to order images from SPS.

Note that SPS staff cannot process image requests using a list of artifact catalog numbers; they need the photo negative numbers.

If you already know the negative numbers, you can submit your request directly to SPS:

 

Smithsonian Photographic Services
Smithsonian Institution / P.O. Box 37012
National Museum of American History, MRC 644
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Telephone: 202.633.1933;  Fax: 202.786.2756
photos@si.edu

If there are no photographs on file, and/or original photography is required, we will let you know whether the artifact is available to be photographed and the procedures involved.

 

Photo Permissions

If you plan to include these images in a publication, please read Anthropology's Guidelines for Photographic Use Fees and submit a Permission Request Form directly to us:

 

Felicia Pickering
Collections Management
Dept of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution
Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, MD 20746

Tel 301.238.1340
Fax 301.238.3109

For additional information about rights and reproductions, please contact Felicia Pickering.

 

Archival Photographs

For historic photographs on anthropological subjects, including many images from old Bureau of American Ethnology publications, see the National Anthropological Archives.

 

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