THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

FROM THE MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY

Many of the images used on this website are from the Illustrated London News and from other publications published by the same company.

They have been used with the kind permission of the Mary Evans Picture Library, and remain the copyright of the Illustrated London News Group/Mary Evans Picture Library.

These images, wherever used, are credited in the "Copyright Acknowledgements" box at the foot of each article as being the copyright of the aforementioned organisations and archives, and they may not be reproduced for commercial purposes without first obtaining the relevant permissions and licenses.

THE ARCHIVE

The ILN archive has been housed at Mary Evans since a management buyout of the ILN Publishing Group from its former parent company, Sea Containers, in December 2007.

All ILN material that has been scanned is now available for licensing exclusively via the Mary Evans site.

YOU CAN SEARCH FOR IMAGES

The search resource, which is available on their website, also includes an option to search ILN images only.

The archive includes The Illustrated London News, The Sketch, The Sphere, The Tatler, The Bystander, The Graphic, are all owned by Illustrated London News (ILN), and before they are used commercially in any way, and in any media, permission must first be sought, and a licence for use obtained, from the Mary Evans Picture Library.

AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE

If you are a publisher, or a media (television, video or online content provider), then the picture library and archive will prove an invaluable resource.

They currently have more than half a million images online, the large majority of them scanned in high resolution, and new images are being added to the archive at a rate of 500 per week.

PLEASE CITE MARY EVANS AS YOUR SOURCE

If you are using any of these images for a school project, please show the courtesy of crediting the relevant publication and the Mary Evans Picture Library as your cited source.

For a college or university project please contact The Mary Evans Picture Library before using any images.