Getty Image will manage and restore thousands of images from DSU’s Archives and make them available for license globally
DOVER, Del. – Delaware State University has taken a significant step in preserving its rich history, protecting its brand, and globally extending the reach of its ongoing story as one of the top HBCUs in the country with its new content partnership with Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace.
Through this collaboration, DSU has dramatically improved its capability to tell the incredible story of its remarkable development since the University’s establishment as Delaware’s only Historically Black Institution of Higher Education in 1891 and one of the premier HBCUs in the country.
That history includes its generations of alumni and their contributions, including prominent alumni such as Steve Ewing, longtime Ford automobile franchisee; Cathleen Trigg-Jones, actress, producer, and Emmy award-winning journalist; Aaron D. Spears, film and TV actor; SZA, multi-Grammy award singer; Eric Dickens film and TV producer, writer, and director; and John Taylor, NFL Pro Bowl and San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl wide receiver.
DSU has also hosted highly esteemed visitors such as U.S. President Joe Biden, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Exelon CEO Calvin Butler, former Publisher of the Washington Post Don Graham, acclaimed singing artist John Legend, and NBA Hall of Famer and Entrepreneur Magic Johnson.
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“The world deserves to see the import and rich history of Delaware State University and our ever-careful eye toward the future,” said University President Tony Allen. “Our new partnership with Getty Images dramatically increases our exposure and provides visual representations of our bold vision – the most substantively diverse, contemporary, and unapologetic HBCU in the world.”
Through this partnership, Getty Images will manage the post-production costs to restore thousands of images from DSU’s Archives. This funding comes from the company’s HBCU Photo Archive Grants Program provided by the Getty Family and Stand Together. The new archival content will be available for licensing via Getty Images’ global distribution platform.
Getty Images’ esteemed HBCU program partner, Epson America, Inc., has generously donated an Expression 13000XL scanner and software to facilitate DSU’s digitization efforts of the Archive. Additionally, Getty Images’ program partner, Adnet Global, a renowned post-production agency specializing in the digitalization, restoration, and discoverability of visual analog historic libraries in the photo digitization process, will ensure that DSU’s digital replicas are enriched with meticulously applied metadata to improve the access and the searchability of DSU’s historical images on gettyimages.com.
Cassandra Illidge, Vice President of Global Partnerships and Executive Director of the HBCU Program at Getty Images said, “We are excited to partner with Delaware State University and the HBCU community to illuminate the past, empower the present and inspire generations to come. Each HBCU’s photographic archive provides a unique and powerful glimpse into the mission and impact of their institution. We are honored to represent Delaware State University’s content and champion global awareness of their story.”
“More than 20 years ago, Delaware State University emerged from being known as one of the best-kept secrets among minority-serving institutions of higher education and is now known as one of the top public HBCUs in the country,” said Dr. Vita Pickrum, DSU Vice President of Institutional Advancement. “Through our partnership with Getty Images, DSU’s rich history and legacy will now be available to be seen worldwide.”
Discover and explore Delaware State University’s archival images on gettyimages.com, here.
To learn more about the Getty Images HBCU Photo Archive Grants Program, go to: https://www.gettyimages.com/corporate-responsibility/hbcu-partnership.
About Delaware State University
Delaware State University is the nation’s #3 public Historically Black College/University (US News & World Report) with a 133-year history of providing a high-quality, low-cost education for ALL. The University is the nation’s #1 provider of professional pilots of color and Delaware’s #1 provider of nurses, teachers, social workers, and accountants of color. Expanding its footprint throughout the state, the University completed the historic acquisition of Wesley College in downtown Dover in 2021. For more information, visit https://www.desu.edu/.
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About Getty Images:
Getty Images (NYSE: GETY) is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace that offers a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer around the globe, no matter their size. Through its Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash brands, websites and APIs, Getty Images serves customers in almost every country in the world and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful visual content from the world’s best photographers and videographers. Getty Images works with over 564,000 content creators and more than 320 content partners to deliver this powerful and comprehensive content. Each year Getty Images covers more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events providing depth and breadth of coverage that is unmatched. Getty Images maintains one of the largest and best privately-owned photographic archives in the world with millions of images dating back to the beginning of photography.
Through its best-in-class creative library and Custom Content solutions, Getty Images helps customers elevate their creativity and entire endtoend creative process to find the right visual for any need. With the adoption and distribution of generative AI technologies and tools trained on permissioned content that include indemnification and perpetual, worldwide usage rights, Getty Images and iStock customers can use text to image generation to ideate and create commercially safe compelling visuals, further expanding Getty Images capabilities to deliver exactly what customers are looking for.
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