Collection and Subject/Format Overviews

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Collection Overviews

A - B

	Abdul-Hamid II Collection - Photographs of the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1880 to 1893, during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition - Images collected by W.E.B Du Bois and others and displayed at the Exposition to show the history and "present conditions" of African Americans ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Ansel Adams' Manzanar War Relocation Center Photographs (collection profile with sample images)
	Joseph S. Allen Collection: Photographs of American architecture (collection summary)
	American Colonization Society - Images of nineteenth-century Liberian political figures, city views, vernacular architecture, and the life of the indigenous West Africans (collection summary with sample images)
	George Grantham Bain Collection: News photographs from the early twentieth century (collection summary with sample images)
	William A. Barnhill Collection: Photographs of North Carolina folklife, 1914-17 (collection summary with sample images)
	Baseball Cards - Cards dating 1887 to 1914, collected by Benjamin K. Edwards ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Brady Handy Collection: Civil War and post-Civil War portraits, with a small collection of Washington views (collection profile)

C - E

	Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South - Early buildings and gardens of nine southern states photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston between 1933 and 1940 (collection summary with a sample image)
	Carpenter (Frank and Frances) Collection - Photographs produced and gathered by Frank and Frances Carpenter, ca. 1860-1934, to illustrate popular writings on world geography ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Cartoon Prints, American - Prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompassing several forms of political art ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Cartoon Prints, British - British political and satirical prints from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Civil War Photographs - Photographs made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and in its immediate aftermath, including images made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection - Fine art prints made by more than 180 artists living and working in Japan, encompassing a diversity of styles, printmaking techniques, and subject matter; the prints were selected for the organization's 50th anniversary show ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Edward S Curtis Collection: Photographs of Native Americans (collection profile with sample images)
	Daguerreotypes - Early photographs, 1839-1864, consisting primarily of portraits, with a few architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Detroit Publishing Company Collection - Photographs documenting North American landscapes and cityscape, ca. 1880-1920, by one of the largest American publishers of postcards and photographic views (collection profile with sample images)
	The Work of Charles and Ray Eames - An archive of design ideas and a record of the Eameses' work, including photographs, drawings, prints, and ephemera, primarily 1940-1978 (collection profile with sample images).

F - G

	Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection - Extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1943 produced through a noted U.S. government photography project (collection profile with sample images)
	Roger Fenton Crimean War Photographs (collection profile with sample images)
	Fine Prints by Federal Art Project Artists (collection summary)
	Fine Prints, Japanese, pre-1915 - Works dating from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, including the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e and Yokohama-e ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Toni Frissell Collection - Photographs, documenting Frissell's distinguished career as a photojournalist and fashion photographer (collection summary with sample images)
	Arnold Genthe Collection - Photographs from the studio of Arnold Genthe, including studio portraits, dancers, San Francisco Chinatown scenes, and travel photos in the U.S. and abroad, 1896-1942 (collection summary with sample images)
	Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - Photographs of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories and historic buildings, chiefly in the northeastern United States, ca. 1935-1955 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	John C.H. Grabill Collection - Photographs by John C. H. Grabill of frontier life in South Dakota and Wyoming, ca. 1888-1892 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)

H - L

	Harris & Ewing, Inc., Photographic Negatives - Photographs of people, events, and architecture, primarily in Washington, D.C., during the period 1905-1945 (collection profile with a sample image)
	Carol M. Highsmith Archive - Architecture and architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States, as well as political figures, and people in the U.S., 1980- ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record - Documentary measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for more than 31,000 structures and sites in the United States and its territories (collection profile with sample images)
	Horydczak Collection - Photographs documenting architecture and social life in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection - Photographs made and collected by one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer, ca. 1864-1940 (collection summary with sample images)
	Kern County Survey Collection: Photographs of agriculture and industry in Kern County, California, 1880s (collection summary with sample images)
	Lamb Studios Archive: Preparatory and study sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture designed by J. & R. Lamb Studios ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	George S. Lawrence and Thomas Houseworth Collection: Photographs of California and Nevada, mid-nineteenth century ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Lomax Collection - Photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk-Song ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Look Magazine Photograph Collection - Photographs created to illustrate Look magazine and related publications produced by companies founded by Gardner Cowles. The cataloged portion of the collection totals four million published and unpublished images, most dating 1952-1971, covering U.S. and international lifestyles, celebrities, and events ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Visual Materials from the Papers of Clare Boothe Luce - Images documenting Luce's varied careers and her personal life (collection summary with images)

M - O

	G. Eric and Edith Matson Negatives - Photographs of the Middle East--notably Palestine, present day Israel, and the West Bank--from 1898 to1946 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	National Child Labor Committee Collection Photographs by Lewis Hine - Working and living conditions of children and other working people in the United States between 1908 and 1921 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	National Photo Company Collection - Photographs documenting political and social life in Washington, D.C., 1909-1932, issued by a news photo service ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (collection profile with a sample images)

P - R

	Panoramic Photographs - Cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits, made in the U.S. and some foreign locations, ca. 1880-1930 (collection profile with sample images)
	Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture - Photographs, ca. 1930-1938, of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century buildings in the United States (collection summary)
	Posters: Artist Posters - Works by poster artists from the nineteenth century to the present day from the United States and other countries ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Posters: Performing Arts Posters ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Posters: WPA Poster Collection ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Posters: Yanker Poster Collection ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Prokudin-Gorskii Collection - Photographic images of the Russian Empire - a color documentary project undertaken between 1905 and 1915 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Milton Rogovin Photograph Collection - Social documentary photographs, ca. 1953-2002 (collection profile with sample images)

S - Z

	Photographs in the Seagram County Court House Archives
	Erwin E. Smith Collection: Photographs of American cowboy and ranch life, 1905-12 (collection profile)
	Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (collection profile with sample images)
	Tissandier Collection - Prints and some photographs documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Turkestan Album (collection profile) - A visual survey of Central Asia, ca. 1871-1872. About 1,200 photographs, with some architectural plans, watercolor drawings, and maps, arranged in four parts.
	U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (collection profile)
	Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection - Portrait and some landscape photographs taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten between 1932 and 1964 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection - Images by William Henry Jackson of various types of transportation in North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, 1894-1896 ("About This Collection" via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog)
	Photographs Taken by the Wright Brothers of Aviation Experiments, Home, and Family (collection profile)

Subject/Format Overviews

	Images of Indians of North America (overview)
	Paris Exposition of 1889 (overview)
	Popular Photographic Print Processes Represented in the Prints and Photographs Division (overview)
	Women Photojournalists: Prints & Photographs Division Holdings (overview)
	Women's History Resources in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (picture pathfinder)