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You can contact the national archives and they will only give you a list of what they have. If you want a scan of the image, you have to hire a certified Archivist. They can go into the archives and they have to bring their scanners with them, and scan the negatives. Any scanner that you can carry in, is a consumer level piece of junk. Our old photogrammetric scanner was something that took two people to physically move, and many hours to set up and calibrate, and it cost over 70 grand.
I had a client actually pay me to get a negative scanned from the archives, and it was obvious it was scanned on a low level scanner, and it was not sharp at all. And they scanned it at 300 PPI, and just "rezed it up" with Photoshop which only makes the file bigger and not one iota better.
Getty may well have scanned a lot of stuff in, but they don't control the National Archives. The archives got out of the business of providing anything except a list of what they have. They require an archivist to access the originals. Totally screwed up system. Likely all the politicians getting rich.
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Glen
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My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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