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Publications Relating to Prints and Photographs Division CollectionsPrints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730The following publications describe and, in most cases, illustrate material in the custody of the Prints and Photographs Division. There is no comprehensive published catalog of the more than thirteen million items held by the Division. Jump to: General | Graphic Arts | Photographs | Related Bibliographies
GeneralEyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States. By Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York: Knopf, 1997. 339 p. [Call number: E178.5.V57 1997 P&P] Note: Also available as a CD-ROM. Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1955. 200 p. [Call number: NE53.W2A52 P&P] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995. 80 p. [Call number: NE53.W3L49 1995 P&P] Note: Also available on World Wide Web at: guide/ Special Collections in the Library of Congress: a Selective Guide. Compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. 464 p. [Call number: Z733.U58U54 1980 P&P] Treasures of the Library of Congress. By Charles A. Goodrum. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1991. 344 p. [Call number: Z733.U58G66 1991 P&P] Viewpoints: a Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress. By Alan Fern, Milton Kaplan, and the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976. 223 p. [Call number: E178.5.U54 1976 P&P] The White House : Resources for Research at the Library of Congress. By John Guidas; essays by Marvin W. Kranz, Samuel V. Daniel III, and Marilyn Ibach. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1992. 150 p. [Call number: F204.W5 P&P] Graphic ArtsAmerican Political Prints, 1766-1876: a Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress. By Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991. 638 p. [Call number: E183.3.R45 1991 P&P] Note: Entries from this catalog can be searched in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, American Political Prints Collection (catalog.html). American Printmaking before 1876: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy: Papers Presented at a Symposium Held at the Library of Congress, June 12 and 13, 1972. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1975. 79 p. [Call number: NE506.A43 P&P] American Prints in the Library of Congress; a Catalog of the [Fine Print] Collection. Compiled by Karen F. Beall. Baltimore, MD: Published for the Library of Congress by the Johns Hopkins Press, [1970]. 568 p. [Call number: NE505.A47 P&P] The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints; a Checklist of 1765-1790 Graphics in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a forward by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. 455 p. [Call number: E209.U54 1975 P&P] Charles Fenderich, Lithographer of American Statesmen. By Alice Lee Parker and Milton Kaplan; edited with a foreword by Lillian B. Miller. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 68 p. + 3 microfiche. [Call number: NE2364.5.F46A4 1978 P&P] Currier & Ives : a Catalogue Raisonné. Compiled by Gale Research Company; with an introduction by Bernard F. Reilly. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1983. 2 v. (1029 p.). [Call number: NE2312.C8A4 1983a P&P] Graphic Sampler. Compiled by Renata V. Shaw. Washington, DC: Library of Congress : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. 367 p. [Call number: NE400.G7 P&P] Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada: a Checklist of Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Compiled by John R. Hebért. Washington, DC: Library of Congress : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984. 181 p. Rev. ed. of: Panoramic maps of Anglo-American cities. 1974. Includes 120 panoramic maps which are in P&P. [Call number: Z6027.U5L5 1984 P&P] Note: These maps are included in an American Memory web site: Panoramic Maps: 1847-1929 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html.) Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Printed Broadsides: a Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Paul Connor and Jill Roberts for the American Folklife Center; introduction by Don Yoder. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988. 48 p. [Call number: ND3035.P4L48 1988 P&P] Popular & Applied Graphic Art in the Library of Congress. Brochure. [Washington, DC]: Library of Congress, [1979]. [12] p. [Call number: P&P Ref. #33] Posada's Mexico. Edited by Ron Tyler. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1979. 315 p. [Call number: NE546.P6A4 1979 P&P] The Poster Collection in the Library of Congress. Brochure. [Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1979]. 16 p. [Call number: P&P Ref. #41.] Posters of the WPA. By Christopher DeNoon; introduction by Francis V. O'Connor. Los Angeles, CA: Wheatley Press, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1987. 175 p. [Call number: NC1807.U5D46 1987 P&P] PhotographsAmerica's Yesterdays: Images of Our Lost Past Discovered in the Photographic Archives of the Library of Congress. By Oliver Jensen; photographic research by Shirley L. Green. New York, NY: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1978. 352 p. [Call number: E178.5.J43 P&P] The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, 1927-1943. Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston; edited by Janet M. Gwaltney; with an introduction by C. Ford Peatross. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. 124 microfiche. [Call number: Microfiche (w) 86/19 (N) P&P] A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress; compiled by Renata V. Shaw. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. 211 p. [Call number: TR6.U62D572 P&P] Frissell, Toni. Photographs, 1933-1967. Introduction by George Plimpton; foreword by Sidney Frissell Stafford. New York: Doubleday in association with the Library of Congress, 1994. 152 p. [Call number: TR653.F75 1994 P&P] Photographs by the Wright Brothers: Prints from the Glass Negatives in the Library of Congress: a Micropublication Commemorating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the First Flight by the Wright Brothers, December 17, 1903. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1978. 20 p. + 5 microfiche. Reproduced from the collection in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress. [Call number: TL521.W74 1978 P&P] Note: 301 images from this collection have been scanned from the microfiche by another organization and mounted on a web site entitled, "To Fly is Everything" under the listing "The Wright Brothers Photographs" (http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/Wright_photos.html). The site is not maintained by the Library of Congress, but it does cite Library of Congress reproduction numbers (e.g. LC-USZ62-56239), with which photographic copies can be ordered through the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Pioneering Image: Celebrating 150 Years of American Photography. By Jerald C. Maddox. New York, NY: Universe, 1989. (Pages unnumbered.) [Call number TR23.M33 1989 P&P] A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910. By Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock. New York: Harmony Books, [1974]. 182 p. [Call number: TR140.J64 A34 1974 P&P] Washingtoniana: Photographs: Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. By Kathleen Collins. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1989. 310 p. [Call number: F195 .L66 1989 P&P] Related BibliographiesSeparate publications lists are available on the following topics:
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