Collection Guides & Finding Aids

Division Overviews | Collection and Subject/Format Overviews | Finding Aids

Guides, collection overviews, subject overviews, and finding aids help provide access to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's resources by summarizing holdings and offering sample images.

Division Overviews

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide
• Prints and Photographs Division section of American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (American Memory)

Collection and Subject/Format Overviews

View list of collection/subject/format overviews

Collection/subject/format overviews include:

• Summaries of collections such as the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographs, the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, the WPA Poster collection, and more.
• Overviews of the Division's holdings in particular subject areas, such as Native Americans, women's history, photographic print processes, etc.
• Most include selected images.

Finding Aids to Contents of Particular Collections

The Prints and Photographs Division is one of several parts of the Library that provides access to finding aids using Encoded Archival Description (EAD).

• For further information on Library of Congress EAD finding aids, see the Library's EAD Finding Aid page.
• For further information on the EAD standard, see the EAD official site.