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All requests to use material from this site should be sent to Hank Donat: hank@MisterSF.com.

Non-Commercial Use

Generally, free use of photographs will be granted for personal, educational or non-commercial activities, provided that Hank Donat and/or MisterSF.com are acknowledged. If you wish to use photographs from this site for any non-commercial web page(s), please provide your URL when making the request. All photographs must be credited and linked to MisterSF.com. 

MisterSF.com was created with 20th Century research methods, with old fashioned tools such as shoe leather, interviews, historic archives, named sources, and the author's own personal journals, photos, and reminiscience. The site is maintained without reliance on wikis and search engines and is recognized for its accuracy. If you wish to use photographs, text, and graphics from this web site in a news report, blog, article, or school project, MisterSF.com must be acknowledged as the source.*

Commercial Use

Fees are payable for use of photographs, text, and graphics in commercial or promotional activities. For use of photographs, the image(s) used should be credited to Hank Donat and/or MisterSF.com. A copy of any material in which the photograph(s) appear must be sent to Hank Donat upon completion. All material produced using photographs from MisterSF.com must be credited. 

A hires image file of the photograph(s) you wish to use will be provided for the license fee. Fees are negotiable. A license agreement will be issued (or your license agreement signed) upon receipt of payment. 

Please email Hank Donat after you identify which photographs, text, graphics or documents you wish to use - specify the page or URL. 

* MisterSF.com is copyrighted as a collective work. This copyright does not supersede any copyrights that may exist in the films, literary works, performances, or other works that are reviewed, displayed, linked, and/or presented by MisterSF.com. Copyright authorization can only be granted for photographs or material created by Hank Donat. Contact other copyright holders separately if your request is in regard to any of the small number of images on MisterSF.com that come from other sources as indicated.