The Associated Press is a news cooperative which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1998. It is the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organization currently serving 15,000 client organizations in 71 countries. Since its inception AP has amassed a collection of over 50 million images in its print and photo negative library.

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. Student comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations. From simple keyword searching to more complex searches such as concept, color, and category, students will enhance research projects with over two million news photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920's, and news stories dating from 1997. Teachers will benefit from the correlation of the Archive to State Learning Standards as well as the National Standards for Learning.

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