Everett Collection

Everett Collection was founded in 1990 by film image collector Morris Everett Jr. and film-industry veteran Ron Harvey. Everett had been collecting film stills and posters since 1961; Ron Harvey had a background in movie photo leasing. The two met at a movie convention in New York and then opened a business in New York City licensing images based on the collection.⁠[1][2][3][3][3]

In 1991, Everett loaded hundreds of thousands of prints onto a truck and brought them to New York, where Ron Harvey catalogued and advertised the collection; Everett recalled that once media outlets learned the size of the collection, orders poured in, with magazines in Hollywood and Hong Kong ordering from it.⁠[3][3][3][3]

In April 2008, Everett Collection signed agreements to represent four European image brands: the Keystone archive, founded in 1927 and owned by France’s Eyedea; Mirrorpix, which represents the image collections of UK newspapers including the Daily Mirror; Mary Evans Picture Library; and Matrix, a celebrity photo agency founded in 1999 that would offer clients 24/7 coverage of London’s entertainment and royalty scenes. The company already represented smaller archives such as the Wisconsin Historical Society and UK agency Rex Features. At the time, it licensed about 2.5 million publicity stills from more than 60,000 film productions, and Ron Harvey was president; he said being a small, niche company had helped secure these representation deals, since many independents feared losing control if they placed images with larger houses.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2][2][2]

The company also observed at the time that historical images were beginning to be used in advertising in place of traditional stock, and planned to add a separate search category of historical images suitable for advertising.⁠[2][2]

By 2012, Morris Everett Jr. owned about 180,000 movie posters and 3 million film stills, licensing them to print, digital, and TV outlets under the name Everett Collection Inc. When Frank Sinatra died in 1998, the photo used on the cover of Time magazine came from this collection.⁠[3][3][3][3]

As of October 2026, Everett Collection has about 4 million digital images and is known for classic film, television, and contemporary entertainment content, along with a historical collection covering major events and personalities of roughly the last 250 years; its clients include publishers, researchers, and media organizations. Its film archive covers more than 100 years, including stills, portraits, candids, and posters, and brings together several European collections with historical content from American libraries, archives, and private files; its red carpet images are keyworded and captioned by fashion experts.⁠[1][1][1][1][4][4][4]

Everett Collection: Official website: https://www.everettcollection.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/EverettPhotos (opens in a new window)⁠[5]