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H. Armstrong Roberts Co. launches Classicstock website

By Chris Ferrone April 10, 2006

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One of the oldest, if not the oldest, stock photo companies in the country, H. Armstrong Roberts Co. of Philadelphia, has launched a new web-site dedicated to its vast and unique archive of vintage and historical stock photographs at www.classicstock.com.  The site is well worth visiting, if only for the entertaining slide show of often humorous vintage images that runs on its home page.  The slide show gives a small taste of the depth and breadth of Classicstock's on-line collection of over 120,000 mostly rights-managed images from the 1920's through the 1980's.  The archive includes a deep collection of authentic "retro" model-released imagery from the company's own collection, accumulated since its inception in 1926, as well as a strong historical archive.
 

Hosted on the Independent Photographer Network (IPN,) the site offers seach features and full e-commerce capability for easy image browsing and downloading.  Classicstock also represents vintage and historical images from other suppliers, including Popperfoto from the UK, Voller Ernst, a vintage humor file from Germany, and Ewing Galloway and the Wisconsin Historical Society from the US.  Classicstock is the sister site to H.Armstrong Roberts' contemporary image site, Robertstock.

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