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Rights and Reproductions

Select digital images of objects in the National Baseball Hall of Fame Photo Archives are available for research and publication. If you are unable to visit the Giamatti Research Center, our staff will gladly send a limited selection of low resolution digital files or photocopies for your review. All photograph reproduction rates are per image and are subject to change. A check or credit card will be accepted for all orders. Prepayment is required

Browse our ever-growing online collection and contact John Horne, our Rights and Reproduction Coordinator, for use permission and high-resolution image files.

John Horne
Rights and Reproduction Coordinator
National Baseball Hall of Fame
jhorne@baseballhall.org



The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum uses copyright statements provided by rightsstatements.org. These rights statements have been specifically developed for the needs of cultural heritage institutions and online cultural heritage aggregation platforms. We have provided Rights Statements descriptions for the ones we use in our digital collections portal.

IN COPYRIGHT (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/)
This Rights Statement can be used for an Item that is in copyright. Using this statement implies that the organization making this Item available has determined that the Item is in copyright and either is the rights-holder, has obtained permission from the rights-holder(s) to make their Work(s) available, or makes the Item available under an exception or limitation to copyright (including Fair Use) that entitles it to make the Item available. Link to all materials with this copyright status.

NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/)
This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the organization that intends to make the Item available has determined are free of copyright under the laws of the United States. This Rights Statement should not be used for Orphan Works (which are assumed to be in-copyright) or for Items where the organization that intends to make the Item available has not undertaken an effort to ascertain the copyright status of the underlying Work. Link to all materials with this copyright status.

IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED (https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/)
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/)
This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that intends to make the Item available has not undertaken an effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work.

COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/)
This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that has made the Item available has undertaken an (unsuccessful) effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work. Typically, this Rights Statement is used when the organization is missing key facts essential to making an accurate copyright status determination.