Women's History Resources in the Library
of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Picture Pathfinder
Because of the myriad types of images found in Prints and
Photographs Division holdings, many of which have their own
form of access, researchers normally end up consulting a variety
of tools and collections in investigating aspects of any topic.
The pathfinder below was developed in conjunction with the
chapter on the Prints and Photographs Division in American
Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's
History and Culture in the United States (forthcoming).
The pathfinder is intended to give researchers a flavor for
the variety of ways in which any given topic can be researched
in the division's holdings, as well as offering a starting
point for pursuing research in various topic areas that broadly
reflect aspects of American women's lives.
Other than suggested searches in the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC), which is available
remotely, research strategies below refer to tools that must
be consulted in the reading room. Researchers should keep
in mind that these lists of tools and collections merely
point out those that should not be missed in approaching
a topic area, but cannot hope to cover every file, index,
or heading potentially relevant to a broad subject area or
the sub-topics that may pertain to it. Because of the unique
materials in the Prints and Photographs Division and the
unique access systems leading to them, reference staff expect
you to consult regularly with them as you pursue your research
in the collections.
Topic Areas
At the most rudimentary level, the division's pictorial
holdings are valued for their ability to show how something--or
someone--looked. In addition to showing what a particular
individual looked like, portraits can provide clues regarding
fashion trends and cultural conventions. Fashion prints,
fashion photography, and "glamour" photographs also shed
light on such trends by documenting physical qualities
that were held up as standards of beauty, by situating
these idealized bodies in idealized settings, and by
highlighting innovations or developments that defied
convention. Portraits are found among most of the types
of materials found in the Division: the products of photojournalism,
advertising images, materials found in organizational
records and personal papers. Likewise, fashion images
and more "exotic" depictions of women's bodies are found
in many forms: in fashion plates, among the historical
prints, in stereographs, and in panoramic documentation
of beauty pageants.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
names of individuals, headings such as "Bathing beauties"; "Beauty
contests"; "Clothing & dress"; "Cosmetics & soap"; "Nudes"; "Women";
etc. (see, especially, Daguerreotypes, Genthe Photograph
Collection, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection,
Panoramic Photographs Collection, Poster collections,
and Van Vechten Photograph Collection) |
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE: under names of individuals |
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BIOGRAPHICAL CARD INDEX: under names of
individuals |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/STEREOGRAPH SUBJECT
FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS INDEX: under headings
such as "Advertisements"; "Bathing beauties"; "Beauty
Culture"; "Clothing and Dress"; "Glamour
photographs"; "Hair Styles and Hairdressing"; "Negro
Women--Portraits"; names of articles of clothing,
e.g., "Hats"; etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Fashions (LOT
4440); Advertisements (LOT 4397); Maidens, Sentimental
(LOT 4450-D) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Portraits"; "Portrait photographs"; "Women--"; "Clothing
and Dress"; "Fashion"; "Costume"; "Millinery"; "Beauty
contests"; etc. |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: Images emphasizing
women's faces and figures are filed under classification
numbers beginning with .33 in each of the geographical
regions; there is no reliable way to search for portraits,
per se, in the online portion of the file, but searching
for such words in the record as "woman"; "family" and "girl" yields
some results. |
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NYWTS: Biographical section for named individuals;
Subject/Geographical section under terms such as "Bathing
beauties"; "Beauty Contests"; "Clothing–Women"; "Expositions–";
and names of articles of clothing, e.g., "Bathing
suits"; etc. |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially, Promotional
Goal catalog under C5 Textiles/Clothing; 19th Century
Advertising Posters under "Clothing" |
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Other than the division's substantial documentation of
the women's suffrage campaign, images that actually show
women engaging in political and social reform work are
relatively few and scattered. Representation of some of
the causes for which they worked, however, especially the
abolition of slavery, the abolition of child labor, civil
rights, prohibition, and, to a certain degree, ecology
awareness and pacifism, is available in the division's
holdings. Little material has so far been found on food
or social purity issues. Representation of organizations
working for charitable and reform causes can be found in
many of the division's collections.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
names of organizations and headings such as "Abolition
movement"; "Boycotts"; "Civil rights"; "Child
labor"; "Demonstrations"; "Women's suffrage";
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Charity and
charitable organizations"; "Child labor"; "Demonstrations"; "Negro
slavery–Abolition movement"; "Temperance"; "Women–Politics
and suffrage"; "Women–Rights of women";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Women's movements
(LOT 4404); Temperence (LOT 4441); Black history
(LOT 4422); Collective settlements (LOT 4244) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Milk hygiene"; "Prohibition"; "Temperence"; "Women–Politics
and government" |
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NYWTS:under headings such as " "Atomic
Energy–Weapons–Protests"; "Clubs– " "Foundations–"; "Funds–"; "Pacifists";
Racism–"; "Settlement houses–"; names of organizations
and political parties; etc. |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: under
headings such as "Women..."; "Demonstrations"; "Abortion"; "Civil
Rights"; "Negroes..."; names of organizations,
causes (e.g., ERA), and political parties; etc. |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
Goal catalog under A6 - Ecology; F1 - National Subgroups;
F31 - Minority Advancement groups; G - Social Welfare,
Education, and Economic Policy; H - Politics and
National Ideology; J - Foreign Relations and War |
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Images of families, homes, and home life, often idealized,
can be found in many of the division's collections. Documentation
of activities taking place in urban and rural homes,
including domestic work, are also available in some collections..
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Cookery"; "Courtship"; "Domestic
Life"; "Families"; "Marriage"; names
of particular rooms in the home, e.g., "Pantries";
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Children"; "Mothers
and children"; "Family groups"; "Cookery"; "Courtship
and love"; "Household appliances and equipment"; "Husband
and wife"; "Interiors–[by type (e.g., "Boudoirs"]"; "Manners
and customs"; "Marriage"; "Sod houses"; "West–Settlers";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Sentimental
subjects (LOT 4450); Daily Life (LOT 4394); Rural
Scenes and Country Life (LOT 4393A); Love, Courtship,
and Marriage (LOT 4615); Advertisements (LOT 4397) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Family"; "Cooking"; "Courtship"; "Home"; "Home
economics"; "Marriage"; "Women"; etc. |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Babies– "; "Children–";
[types of furniture, e.g., fill in]; [types
of food, e.g., "Casseroles"]; "Contests--[name
of contest (e.g., Betty Crocker All-American Homemaker)]; "Houses–[by
room]"; "Marriage"; etc. |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: under
headings such as "Children"; "Families"; "Housing"; "Television";
etc. |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially classification
numbers beginning with .35 [Families]; .4 [Homes
and living conditions]; and .896 [Courtship] |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
goal catalog under C - Advertising Specific Products,
e.g. C4 - Food; 19th Century Advertising Posters
under categories such as "Food"; "Soaps & starches";
etc. |
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Scenes of education involving women and girls are scattered
throughout the division's holdings, often interspersed
with depictions of education that include boys and men.
In addition to images of learning in conventional educational
settings, the holdings include pictures of vocational
education and adult education efforts, particularly in
the context of war work.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Classrooms"; "Education"; "Elementary
school teaching"; "School children"; "Vocational
education"; "Women–Education"; etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Chautauquas"; "Education"; "School
children"; "School classrooms"; "Women–Education";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Colleges and
Universities (LOT 4398); Education (LOT 7003) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Chautauqua meeting"; "Education"; "High
schools"; "Home economics"; "Schools"; "Women's
colleges"; "Women's education"; [names
of institutions]; etc. |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Education--" (includes "Education–Colleges–[name
of institution]"; "Education–Schools..." "Education–Teachers";
and "Education–Women"); "Governesses";
etc. |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: under
headings such as "Education"; "Negroes–Education"; "Schools";
etc. |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially classification
numbers beginning with .375 [Children–Schools] and
.86-.88 [Intellectual and creative activity] |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
goal catalog under G5 Formal Education, and G6 Special
Aspects of Education and Educational Facilities |
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Interesting though scattered representation of women
working for pay in the nineteenth century can be found
in the division's holdings; the subject is more prolifically
and broadly covered in the twentieth-century collections.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Factories"; "Strikes"; "Sweating
system"; "Women–Employment"; and the names of
specific industries, business enterprises, and occupations,
e.g., "Bottling industry" or "Office workers";
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Assembly-line
methods"; "Home labor"; "Industry–[name
of industry]"; "Labor and Laboring classes"; "Labor
organizations"; "Strikes and lockouts–[name
of industry]"; "Sweating system"; "Women–Employment";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Labor and Labor
organizations (LOT 4403); Advertisements/Industry
(LOT 4397) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Factories"; "Labor"; "Strike"; "Occupations"; "Women–Work";
as well as under names of particular organizations,
e.g., "National Women's Trade Union League of America";
particular occupations such as "Policewomen";
and particular industries and products such as "Cotton" |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Employment–Women"; "Labor–[by
name of organization or occupation]"; "Labor–Strikes";
and names of particular organizations, e.g., "Women's
Ordnance Workers" |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: under
headings such as "Employment"; "Labor..."; "Industry..."; "Women...";
names of organizations |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially .339157
[Women in industry] and classification numbers for
various agricultural, industrial, and professional
activities, such as .537209 [Cotton, Bringing in
from the Field] or .62075 [Industry, Wheels and Axles]) |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
goal catalog under F2 - Labor |
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Representation of women involved in performing arts
is a strength, particularly of the poster and photograph
collections, with women musicians being depicted less
frequently. Locating images showing women engaging in
literary or visual arts is more difficult. As noted above,
portraits of women involved in the arts, and the products
of women artists can be found through online and other
catalogs. (See also Pathfinder 1: Portraits, Fashion
and the Body.)
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Actresses"; "Artists colonies"; "Artists'
studios"; "Artists"; "Authors"; "Theatrical
productions"; names of individuals involved
in the arts (note: individuals known for their involvement
in the arts are often indexed by their proper name
only, not by their occupation); names of particular
productions; etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Artists at
work"; "Books and reading"; "Circus and
shows"; "Literature" (primarily illustrations
for particular works of literature); "Motion
pictures–Scenes and stills"; "Music"; "Musical
instruments"; "Musicians"; "Sculptors
at work"; "Sculpture"; "Theater...";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Theatrical performances
(LOT 4618); Theater (LOT 4437); Theatrical posters
(LOT 4438); and directly under terms "Theater–" and "Circus
and shows–" in the alphabetical section |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Actors and actresses"; "Music"; "Musical..."; "Theaters";
etc. |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Art–"; "Books–"; "Expositions–"; "Magazines–"; " Movies–"; "Music–"; "Opera–"; "Radio–"; "Television–"; "Theatrical–";
names of individuals and organizations; etc. |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially .886 [Arts
and crafts]; .914 [Theater, Burlesque, Show Business];
.916 [Music]; and categories beginning with .3...
[People] |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
Goal catalog under K - Recreation, Entertainment
and the Arts; Film Posters catalog; Artcraft Posters
catalog |
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Although women are only occasionally depicted as spiritual
leaders or healers in the division's holdings, images
documenting women's involvement in religious activity
and organizations can be found in many collections.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Religion"; "Religious...";
and names of particular religious groups and institutions;
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Convents and
nunneries"; "Faith healers and faith healing"; "Religious
groups–[name of group]"; "Religious orders–[name
of order]"; and names of particular religious
groups and institutions |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Religious groups
(LOT 4400); Religious and inspirational (LOT 4443);
Religious observances (LOT 7001) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Churches"; "Nun"; "Religion";
and names of particular religions and religious institutions |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Nuns–"; "Religion–"; "Religious
Sects–[by name of group]"; names of particular
organizations; etc. |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: under "Religion..." |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially .84...
[Religion]; .9127 [Religious processions] |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
goal catalog under F32 - Religious organizations;
F4 - Religion, Morality, Ethics |
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Since depictions of women's sports and recreational
activities were frequently used in advertising and in
the press, and since leisure activities were often a
favored focus in the work of documentary and amateur
photographers, images of this aspect of women's lives
are found in a wide range of the division's collections.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Athletes"; "Children playing
..."; "Women–Social life"; "Women–Sports";
under particular activities, e.g., "Dance," "Swimming" and
under types of equipment, e.g., "Bicycles & tricycles";
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Children–Playing..."; "Games–[type
of game]"; "Sports–[type of sport]";
and particular activities and types of equipment,
e.g., "Dance"; "Bicycles and tricycles";
etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Sports (LOT
4432); Daily life (LOT 4394); Sentimental (LOT 4450) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Athletes"; Games"; "Recreation"; "Sports"; "Sports
for women"; and names of individual sports (e.g., "Basketball"),
and activities (e.g., "Picnicking") |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Athletics--"; "Awards–[name
of award (e.g., National Women's Singles Tennis Trophy)]"; "Dancing–"; "Games–";
and names of particular sports, individuals and organizations |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially .38...
[Play, Games, Sports]; .89-.9... [Social and Personal
Activities] |
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POSTER card catalogs: especially Promotional
Goal catalog under K - Recreation, Entertainment
and the Arts; E - Transportation and Travel |
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Other than women's involvement in nursing, representation
of women's participation in medicine, either as doctor
or patient, is infrequent in the collections. Women's
activities in the spheres of science and technology (other
than as users of technology) are even more sparse in
the division's holdings. Portraits of individual scientists
are not routinely indexed under the profession.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: under
headings such as "Nurses"; "Nursing"; "Health
care"; "Scientists"; "Women–Health & welfare";
names of specific diseases, e.g., "Cancer"; "Tuberculosis";
etc. |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Children–Care
and hygiene"; "Civil War–Sanitary Commission,
U.S."; "Civil War–Medical and Sanitary Affairs"; "Civil
War–Christian Commission, U.S."; "Civil War–Hospitals
and Convalescent Camps"; "Diseases–[name of
disease]"; "Health..."; "Medicine"; "Medicines,
Patent, Proprietary, etc."; "Nurses and nursing"; "Quacks
and quackery"; etc. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Medicine, patent
medicine, sanitation (LOT 4399); Civil War–Hospitals
(LOTs 4452 and 9354-B) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Health..."; "Medicine"; "Nurses and
nursing"; names of specific diseases, e.g., "Tuberculosis";
etc. |
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NYWTS: under headings such as "Drugs–[type
of drug]"; "Medical–"; "Nurses–"; names
of individuals and organizations |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: especially .58 [Technical
research] and .8-.83 [Health, Sanitation] |
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POSTER card catalogs: under Promotional
Goal G4 and in WPA Poster Collection |
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Because of the lack of identification that accompanies
many visual materials, it is often difficult to determine
with certainty the race/ethnicity of depicted individuals,
both when organizing and describing them for access and
when attempting to confirm such identities at the research
end. Moreover, in older access systems, where only one
index term could be applied (the one where the image
was to be physically found), racial and ethnic aspects
of an image may have received less attention than prominent
events or activities. As a consequence, searching for
depictions of specific racial and ethnic groups can be
problematic.
Although terms for racial and ethnic groups can be found
in many of the division's access tools, a thorough researcher
should not stop there. It is advisable to search under
the specific geographic regions in the United States
where members of the racial or ethnic groups settled
in large numbers, as well as to search for occupations,
events, and activities that might be associated with
that ethnic or racial identity. For instance, Lewis Hine's
photographs for the National Child Labor Committee include
documentation of various manual trades on the eastern
seaboard during the early part of the century; his photo
captions sometimes suggest the ethnicity of those depicted.
Generally, however, you will need to use a combination
of internal and external clues to determine whether depicted
individuals may have possessed the identity that is sought,
since casual labeling by the makers of the images may
have ascribed inaccurate or no racial or ethnic identity
to the subjects of the images.
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: generally
employs terms for ethnic and racial groups found
in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (e.g. "African-Americans"; "Japanese
Americans"; " Indians of North America")
but with the division's own topical subdivisions
(e.g. "–Clothing & dress"; "–Employment") added.
A few collections, such as the Farm Security Administration/Office
of War Information online records, employ terminology
used in the original documentation, e.g., "Negroes," "Spanish
Americans." Other useful terms, drawn from the LC
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms,
include "Emigration & immigration"; "Immigrants"; "Aliens"; "Ethnic
Neighborhoods"; "Ethnic stereotypes"; "Minorities";
and "Race discrimination." |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS PHOTO FILE/SPECIFIC SUBJECTS
INDEX: under headings such as "Chinese Americans"; "German
Americans"; "Indians of North America"; "Jews"; "Negro/Negroes";
as well as under the topic "Emigration and immigration." Some
of these ethnic headings are also used under the
names of specific wars. |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Immigration
(LOT 7010); African American history (LOT 4422);
Indians (LOTs 4391 and 4411) |
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DIVISIONAL CARD CATALOG: under such terms
as "Chinese Americans and Chinese in America";
and "Jews." Material relating to Native Americans
is in two filing sequences: "Indians, American" and "Indians
of North America." Likewise, material relating
to African Americans is indexed both under "Negro" and
under "Afro-Americans"; and immigration-related
material is under both "Immigration" and "Emigration
and immigration." |
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NYWTS: under designations for groups ("Japanese-Americans"; "Jews--"; "Negroes--")
and names of ethnic organizations (e.g., Italian-American
War Veterans), as well as under headings such as "Immigration–General" and "New
York City–Nationalities–[name of ethnic group]" |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION: Images
of African Americans are listed under "Negroes." There
are some listings under "Immigration," "Jewish" and "Jews";
but, generally, there is little direct indexing for
racial or ethnic groups. On the other hand, searching
under "U.S. -- California – Los Angeles," one
can find material describing Mexican Americans in
that city. |
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FSA/OWI COLLECTION: includes some classification
numbers for specific groups: .329156 [Indians]; .329158,
[Italian Americans]; .329159 [Orientals, Japanese];
.32916 [Jewish Americans]; .32918 [Scandinavian Americans];
.329185 [Mexicans and Spanish Americans]. Also, a
few classification numbers for activities (e.g.,
.8438 [ Negro Church Services]); or sections of town
(e.g., .25906 [Mexican Section]) relate to specific
groups. These should be used merely as a starting
point, however, as related images of the same people
may be filed under other classification numbers,
depending on what is most prominently depicted. Determining
the LOT number printed on the back of the mount of
an image of interest and viewing other materials
in the microfilmed LOT can lead to these related
images; viewing neighboring negative numbers in the
online collection in PPOC may yield additional views. |
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17th Century
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BRITISH CARTOONS |
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GRAPHICS FILE: includes depictions of 17th-century
life and events, though most were produced in the
19th century or later |
18th Century
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG (especially
American Political Prints collection) |
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE |
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BRITISH CARTOONS |
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GRAPHICS FILE: especially Immigration
(LOT 7010); African American history (LOT 4422);
Indians (LOTs 4391 and 4411) |
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FINE PRINTS CATALOG (by century, then artist) |
1800-1859
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: especially
American Political Prints collection and Daguerreotypes
collection |
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE |
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BRITISH CARTOONS |
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GRAPHICS FILE |
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FINE PRINTS CATALOG (by century, then artist) |
1860-1900
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: especially
Civil War Photographs, Drawings (Documentary), Panoramic
Photographs, Cabinet of American Illustration, Cartoon
drawings collections, Performing Arts Posters, Detroit
Publishing Company Collection and LOTs from Frances
Benjamin Johnston Collection |
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GRAPHICS FILE |
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FINE PRINTS CATALOG (by century, then artist) |
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS FILE |
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STEREOGRAPH FILES |
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HISTORICAL PRINT CATALOGS (by publisher
name) |
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CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS FILE |
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POSTER COLLECTIONS (especially Advertising
Posters and Circus Posters) |
1901-1950
Note: Most of the division's tools lead to materials
in this time period. Of special note:
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: especially
Panoramic Photographs, Cabinet of American Illustration,
Cartoon Drawings collections, Performing Arts Posters,
Detroit Publishing Company Collection, FSA/OWI Negatives
and Transparencies, Genthe Collection, Horydczak
Collection, Lomax Collection, Gottscho-Schleisner
Collection and LOTs/items from the Frances Benjamin
Johnston Collection, the George Grantham Bain Collection,
the National Child Labor Committee Collection, and
the National Photo Company Collection. |
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FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION/OFFICE OF WAR
INFORMATION COLLECTION reading room file |
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FINE PRINTS CATALOG (by century, then artist) |
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BIOGRAPHICAL FILE |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS FILE |
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STEREOGRAPH FILES |
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DIVISIONAL CATALOG: especially the George
Grantham Bain Collection, the National Child Labor
Committee Collection, and the National Photo Company
Collection. |
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POSTER COLLECTIONS |
1951-1980s
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PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ONLINE CATALOG: especially
Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Yanker Poster
Collection, Cartoon Drawings collections, Horydczak
Collection |
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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN COLLECTION |
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLECTION |
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SPECIFIC SUBJECTS FILE |
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POSTER COLLECTIONS |
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