By: Joe Nicholson A new Web site of the New York Daily News was set up last week to sell more than 2 million photos, the world's biggest online photo collection.
The site at http://www.dailynews pix.com, boasts 2,026,681 photos, which helped make it the nation's first successful tabloid after its 1919 founding and led to its adopting the legend, "New York's Picture Newspaper."
Culled from more than 6 million images in the News' archives, the photos are offered to noncommercial customers at $50 for an 8-by-10-inch print and $75 for an 11-by-14-inch print. Commercial customer rates vary.
"With the incorporation of new technology," said Daily News ceo and Co-Publisher Fred Drasner, "we are now able to extend the usefulness of our photo collection and offer photos to everyday readers as well as to our colleagues in the media industry."
"It's possible for kids to search our archive for Babe Ruth photos," said Daily News Director of Photography Eric Meskauskas. Also for sale are exclusive 1928 photos of Ruth Snyder dying in the electric chair for killing her husband, snapped by a photographer using a hidden ankle camera.
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