Matthew Butson, Vice President, Hulton Archive

Case study: The Past is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past – An Introduction to the Archives at Getty Images

An Introduction to the archive at

” The past is never dead. It's not even past ”

William Faulkner.

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Matthew ButsonVice President, Archive at Getty Images

25 Years with the archive

• 1854: Founding of London Stereoscopic Co. (LSC)

• 1922: Rischgitz acquires LSC.

• 1936:The Time Inc. Picture Collection founded

• 1938: Sir Edward Hulton launches weekly “Picture Post” magazine.

• 1947: Hulton Press acquires Rischgitz - Hulton Picture Library properly formed and catalogued.

• 1958: BBC acquires Hulton Picture Library

• 1988: Brian Deutsch acquires the Hulton archive & Keystone.

• 1996: Getty Images acquires “The Hulton-Deutsch collection”

• 1999: Getty Images acquires Archive Photos, NY

• 2000: Hulton|Archive formed. Acquires FPG.

• 2003: Join forces with Time Inc. - exclusive worldwide distribution of Time Life Pictures. Acquires Retrofile.

• 2006: Acquires Michael Ochs Music Archive. Acquires Princess Diana Archive

• 2007: Image Partner deal with Popperfoto. Acquires Tim Graham Royalty archive.

• 2008: Acquires Redferns music library.

• 2009: Acquires Cover agency archive.

• 2010: Acquires Fotosearch Collection

• 2011: Acquires Tom Kelley Jnr collection

The Archive - A Brief History…

Access to 90 million+ images in London alone;Onsite in London;

• Hulton (42 million)

• Archive Photos (13 million)

• FPG (7 million)

• Popperfoto (12 million)

• Bob Thomas Sports Photography (3 million)

• Redferns (2 million)

• Ernst Haas (1 million)

• Slim Aarons (1 million)

• Space Frontiers (1 million)

• Allsport (4 million)

• Tim Graham (2 million)

• Dave Hogan (1 million)

• Others: Tom Stoddart, Steve Pyke, Polly Borland, Terry O’Neill etc. (1 million)

Case Study: Science & Society Picture Library

What SSPL Brings to Getty Images...

• 50,000 Images On-line

• ‘Deep File’ On Demand Service Available

• Includes:

Science Museum

National Railway Museum

National Media Museum

Daily Herald

Advertising Archive

• Over 1.3bn page views per annum

• Over 76m visits per annum

• 480,000 new registrants each year

• 12 E-commerce language versions

• 19 Wholly Owned offices worldwide

• 34 Master Delegates

• 500 Sales people globally

• 300,000 Active customers worldwide

• Sales in 150 countries

What Getty Images brings to SSPL...

That’s all folks!Any Questions?