HISTORIC PORTFOLIO

The fotoLibra Historic Portfolio

Making you money from your old photographs and images

Everyone who joins fotoLibra to sell pictures gets an Historic Portfolio to market images taken before 1980. fotoLibra invites you to help form a valuable archive of old pictures taken by generations of family photographers.

Researchers will find a treasure trove of previously unseen images; images that they haven’t been able to access until now.

You can upload as many pre-1980 images to your Historic Portfolio as you like, for as long as you like.

No upload limit
No storage limit
No bandwidth restrictions
No fees
50% commission on sales
You always retain your copyright

There are only two things to remember:

Images must meet fotoLibra’s Submission Guidelines
Images must have been taken before January 1st, 1980

Transparencies, slides, negatives, printed material, glass plates — all can be scanned, digitized and uploaded to your Historic Portfolio.

Dates will be vital to enable picture editors and buyers to find images – whether you know the exact day, the month, the year or just the decade, make sure you include it.

Please note:

RIGHTS MANAGED:
Rights Managed images only — there is no option to make historic images Royalty Free.
MODEL RELEASES:
Model Releases for images taken after 1950 help make a sale, but are not essential.
COPYRIGHT:
You must own the copyright of the historic images uploaded or have the authority of the copyright holder, unless copyright has expired (see the Copyright section of the Submission Guidelines).
HISTORIC IMAGES:
This means photographs captured before 1980, NOT pictures of old things.
DATES:
Every image submitted to the Historic Portfolio must be properly dated.

About fotoLibra

fotoLibra is a stock agency.

We market our members' image rights so they can profit from their picture collections.

And picture editors can discover unpublished images from around the world at competitive prices.

It's that simple.

Picture buyers

To buy any picture from fotoLibra for any use, simply register as a buyer, sign in and click on the gray currency icon below the image.

If you're planning to buy several images, we recommend you open a Pro Buyer Account.

If you want to buy hundreds, call our sales team on (646) 233 1348.

Picture sellers

fotoLibra membership is free.

Upload a picture, and when it sells you get 50% of net sales receipts.

You retain copyright in your images.

Upgrade your membership for more benefits.

Heritage Membership

Every fotoLibra member also has a free Historic Portfolio.

This is where you can store and market all your scanned and digitized pre-1980 images.

Image buyers always need these old pictures of how we lived, worked and played; of great events and lost landmarks; of the ways we travelled, relaxed and partied through the decades.

Dig out your family archives, hunt through the albums and start scanning.

Upload as many as you can — it's free.

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