![[Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill, April 11, 1968]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090109154347im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b41000/3b41600/3b41629t.gif) U.S.
News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection
Prints and Photographs
Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
Collection digitized? A
small portion have been digitized
and can be viewed in the Prints &
Photographs Online Catalog [retrieve
online records and images].
A selected
image is included here to give
a sample of the collection.
The collection consists of almost
1.2 million original 35mm and
2 1/4 inch
negatives (primarily black & white) and 45,000
contact sheets donated by the
U.S. News & World Report, Inc.
The collection is primarily photographs
taken
by staff of the U.S. News & World Report Magazine
between 1952 and 1986; images purchased by the
magazine for one-time use were not donated to
the Library. The
collection depicts local, national, and international
news topics, with particular emphasis on Washington,
D.C., and the United States. The collection features
coverage of politics, government, economics, industry,
education, domestic life,
transportation, communication, health care, and
housing. It documents political campaigns, political
conventions, congressional hearings, press conferences,
foreign policy activities and foreign affairs,
as well as space exploration and
flight, consumer products, and gas rationing.
Other images relate to crime, terrorism, student
protests and the aftermath of violence, strikes,
riots, and trials. Also
included are images related to such issues as
civil rights and the women's movement. Events
portrayed include the Vietnam War, Watergate,
and statesmen's visits (for
example, Richard Nixon's 1958 trip to the Soviet
Union, Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United
States, and Fidel Castro's 1959 trip to the United
States).
Washington, D.C., coverage includes federal buildings
and monuments, and Supreme Court activities, including
judges, court decisions and events, and building
views. National political, religious, and cultural
leaders and personalities
are portrayed such as Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and Henry Kissinger, as well as international
leaders such as Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and
Menachem Begin.
There are also depictions of events and incidents in the political careers
of men who became presidents (Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon
B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George
Bush), although there are fewer images from their presidential terms than from
other parts of their careers.
A SUBJECT CARD INDEX created by U.S. News & World Report staff provides
call numbers for folders which contain contact sheets and some frame enlargements.
The cards represent more folders than are actually in the Library's collection,
since the U.S. News & World Report did not donate all its photographs. Headings
are inconsistant and there are few cross references, so a creative approach
should be taken when using this index. Note that geographic access is by country,
then state, then city (examples: U.S.-Alabama-Birmingham, or Norway-Oslo).
The exception is District of Columbia, listed as D.C.
The CHRONOLOGICAL arrangement of the file of contact sheets provides
access by the date the photographs were added to the file (which is
not neccessarily the date of the event). Therefore, it may be necessary to
check through the several succeeding months after an event to find images of
it.
Note: If a folder is not in the file, patrons can check the U.S. News & World
Report LOGBOOK, available on the finding aids shelf in the Reading
Room. The logbook provides a chronological record of all photographic assignments
for which U.S. News & World Report, Inc., retained negatives and contact prints
and indicates which assignments were donated to the Library. (An "X" designates
material not donated to the Library.)
CAPTIONS on the folders identify the subject, job number, photographer's
initials, and date of the job.
PUBLISHED VOLUMES of the magazine are available in the P&P Reading
Room, Reference Book collection, call number JK1.U65, for patrons who want
to read the article in which specific images were published. It should be noted
that there are many more images in the collection than were published in the
magazine, and not all published images are in the collection. Generally, the
collection does not include wire service photographs used by the magazine,
with the exception of Black Star.
U.S. News & World Report, Inc., began publication of its magazine in 1948
in headquarters based in Washington, D.C. Among the principal staff photographers
were: Warren K. Leffler (hired mid-1950s), Thomas J. O'Halloran (hired 1952),
and Marion S. Trikosko (hired 1957). These photographers were primarily responsible
for assignments in the Washington, D.C., region but also went on some special
assignments outside the area. Foreign correspondents served as photographers
when covering most international news topics and news topics in other parts
of the country. The subject card index sometimes cites photographers by their
initials.
Rights and Restrictions
information is available
on the Prints & Photographs Division web site.
Photographic prints or transparencies can be ordered directly from the Library
of Congress, Photoduplication
Service, Washington, D.C. 20540-5230. Order forms, price, and order instructions
will be provided on request. When ordering copies of USN&WR photographs, patrons
should attach to their order form a photocopy of the contact sheet with the
desired item circled or highlighted. The entire negative number, including
the folder and frame number should be cited. An example is: LC-U9-1234-frame
8.
All images to be copied must be approved by
the reference staff. In general, quick copies
of the contact sheets are dark and lack detail.
To
copy both
the caption
and the images at the same time, remove the
contact sheet from the folder and place it on
the folder. When placed together on the photocopy
machine, both the
caption and image will then be photocopied onto
one sheet of paper.
Prepared by: Marcy Silver, Cataloger, with assistance from Barbara Orbach
Natanson, Reference Specialist, and Mary Ison, Head, Reference Section. Last
revised 8/99
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