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1. ABDUL HAMID II COLLECTION [ahii] -- about 1,800 photographs mounted in albums
   ca. 1880-1893. Photographic survey of the Ottoman Empire, showing educational, military, and other government facilities as well as historic sites. More information
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

2. AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS ASSEMBLED FOR 1900 PARIS EXPOSITION [anedub] -- about 475 photographs (records being added)
   ca. 1899. Photos gathered for use in the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, consisting of portraits and scenes of education, work, and daily life. Includes more than 360 photos presented by W.E.B. Du Bois. More information
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

3. ANSEL ADAMS'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT AT MANZANAR [manz] -- 244 photographs
   1943. Portraits, views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities. More information   
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes   Sample images
   

4. ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & ENGINEERING DRAWINGS [ade] -- about 40,000 drawings (ca. 3,900 catalog records).
   1600-1989, bulk 1880-1940. Drawings, primarily for sites and structures in the U.S. (especially Washington, D.C.), as well as Europe and Mexico, mostly by American architects and architectural firms. Most cataloged in groups by project. (Note: Original materials are served by appointment.)
   How much digitized? Some     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No     Sample images

5. BAIN COLLECTION [ggbain] -- about 42,000 photographs (all 39,744 negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints)
   ca. 1900-1931 (bulk). Photos produced and gathered by George Grantham Bain for his news photo service, including portraits and worldwide news events, but with special emphasis on life in New York City. More information
   How much digitized? Most     Jpegs/tiffs display offsite? Yes     Sample images

6. BASEBALL CARDS [bbc] -- 2,100 baseball cards.
   1887-1914. Baseball cards representing more than one thousand major and minor league ballplayers (primarily major league), from teams in thirteen identified leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada. (Note: Original materials are served by appointment.) More information
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

7. BRADY-HANDY COLLECTION [brhc] -- about 5,000 glass negatives
   ca. 1860-1875 (bulk). Original glass plate negatives by Mathew Brady and Levin C. Handy studios; chiefly portraits of presidents, members of Congress, military and naval officers, justices of the Supreme Court, actors, artists, religious leaders, and other notables. Also includes views of Washington, D.C., and vicinity. More information
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

8. BRUMFIELD COLLECTION [brum] -- about 1,100 slides.
   1987-2000. Documents architectural heritage of pre-Soviet Russia, highlighting wooden buildings, and religious, commercial and industrial facilities, as well as some landscapes. More information
   How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

9. CABINET OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION [cai] -- about 4,000 drawings and prints.
   1850-1930. Book and magazine illustrations and some graphic designs. (NOTE: Original drawings served only by appointment.) More information
   How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Some     Sample images

10. CARPENTER COLLECTION [ffcarp] -- about 1,600 photographs (selection from full collection; records being added)
    ca. 1860-1934, bulk 1880-1924. Photos produced and gathered by Frank and Frances Carpenter to illustrate popular writings on world geography. Consists of photos in the Carpenter collection for which copy photos have been produced. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

11. CARTOON DRAWINGS [cd] -- about 9,400 drawings.
    1794-1994. Political, editorial, and humorous cartoons and caricatures by about 500 artists. More information
    How much digitized? Many    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

12. CARTOON DRAWINGS (SWANN COLLECTION OF CARICATURE AND CARTOON) [swan] -- about 2,000 drawings.
    1780-1975 (chiefly 1930's). Cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations by various artists. (Note: Some original items are undergoing conservation and are unavailable for viewing.) More information
    How much digitized? Some    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

13. CARTOON PRINTS, AMERICAN [cpam] -- about 500 prints.
    ca. 1766-1876. Political satires, caricatures, and allegories printed in the U.S. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

14. CARTOON PRINTS, BRITISH [cpbr] -- about 8,500 prints
    ca. 1621-ca. 1853 (bulk, 1780-1830). British political and satirical prints highlighting aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater. Includes prints from the British Cartoon Prints Collection, call numbers PC 1, PC 2, and PC 3. More information
    How much digitized? Some     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

15. CASE BOOKS [casebk] -- about 2,100 books and serials
    ca. 1557-2000. Books, serials and published, bound portfolios assigned to the Prints and Photographs Division because they contain original photographs, engravings, and other kinds of graphic materials.
    How much digitized? None   

16. CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS [cwp] -- about 7,200 photographs.
    1861-1869. Photographs and glass plate negatives from the Civil War Photographs Collection. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

17. COLLEGE WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN PRINT SHOW COLLECTION [cwaj] -- about 200 prints
    1987-2005 (primarily 2003-2005). 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. More information
    How much digitized? Most Jpegs/tiffs display offsite? No   Sample images

18. CURTIS (EDWARD S.) COLLECTION [ecur] -- about 1,000 photographic prints (selection from full collection)
    1890-1929. Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, New Southwest, Great Basin, Great Plains, Plateau Region, California, and Alaska. Features studio and field photographs. Selected images are primarily those for which copy photos have been produced. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

19. DAGUERREOTYPES [dag] -- 748 daguerreotypes.
    1839-1864. Primarily portraits; also architectural views and works of art. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

20. DETROIT PUBLISHING COMPANY [detr] -- about 28,200 glass negatives, glass transparencies, and color photomechanical prints.
    1885-1930. Chiefly scenes in U.S. and Latin America, including landscapes, cityscapes, historic sites, architecture, vessels, industry, etc. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

21. DRAWINGS (DOCUMENTARY) [drwg] -- 2,468 drawings.
    1783-1865. Primarily eyewitness sketches of Civil War scenes and events, including military personnel, battles, civilian activities, and landscapes. Also includes portraits, and American landscapes and structures from earlier periods.
    How much digitized? Some     Jpegs/tiffs display offsite? Most do; a few do not     Sample images

22. DRAWINGS (MASTER) [drwgma] about 5,000 drawings (described in about 3,700 catalog records)
    primarily 1830-1930. Finished works and sketches or preparatory drawings for printmaking by artists of many nationalities. Includes several dozen drawings from the 15th to 18th centuries, as well as drawings by James McNeill Whistler and many by Joseph Pennell. More information
    How much digitized? Some Jpegs/tiffs display offsite? Some    Sample images

23. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION/OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION BLACK-AND-WHITE NEGATIVES [fsabw] -- about 171,000 negatives: includes all FSA, OWI, and OEM negatives (LC-USF33; LC-USF34; LC-USW3; LC-USE6).
    1935-1945. Photos documenting rural and urban conditions and lifestyles in the U.S. and its territories; a few in Canada. Includes negatives the FSA/OWI did not print, many of which lack identifying information. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

24. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION/OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS [fsac] -- about 1,600 color transparencies.
    1939-1944. U.S., Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands scenes showing work and home life, culture, and war industry. More information
    How much digitized? All    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

25. FENTON CRIMEAN WAR PHOTOGRAPHS [fenton] -- 263 photographs by Roger Fenton.
    1855. Views of participants, landscapes and equipment. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

26. FINE PRINTS [finepr] -- about 12,000 prints (selection from full collection; records being added)
    ca. 1450-1997. Relief, intaglio, and planographic prints, and other print media by artists and printmakers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and Asia. More information
    NOTE: pre-1915 Japanese fine prints are made available through a separate category.
    How much digitized? Some    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

27. FINE PRINTS: JAPANESE, pre-1915 [jpd] -- about 2,500 prints and 60 drawings (selection from full holdings)
    1688-1915. Primarily woodcuts depicting actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, English and European visitors. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

28. GENTHE COLLECTION [genthe] -- about 15,600 negatives and 1,200 autochromes, lantern slides and transparencies by Arnold Genthe.
    1896-1942. Includes studio portraits, dancers, San Francisco Chinatown scenes, and travel photos in the U.S. and abroad. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

29. GOTTSCHO-SCHLEISNER COLLECTION [gsc] -- about 29,000 negatives and slides.
    ca. 1935-1955. Northeastern U.S. and Florida, emphasizing architecture. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

30. GRABILL COLLECTION [grabill] -- 190 photographic prints.
    ca. 1888-1892. Photographs by John C. H. Grabill of frontier life in South Dakota and Wyoming, including scenes of railroad construction, cowboys and miners, and the interactions between Native Americans and U.S. officials. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

31. GROUPS OF IMAGES IN HIGH DEMAND [grp] -- about 12,800 groups of prints, photographs, and drawings; records being added)
    1800's-1960's. Primarily records for LOTs: groups of images, most of which are requested using call slips. Examples: groups of images relating to Native Americans, groups of stereographs on specific themes or by particular publishers, groups of images from the records of the NAACP.
    How much digitized? Records include links to any items with online catalog records/images

32. GUIDE RECORDS (collection overviews) --120 records.
    How much digitized? Some catalog records link to item record/image searching

33. HARRIS & EWING COLLECTION [hec] -- about 9,500 negatives (records being added)
    1905-1945. Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. More information
    How much digitized? Some   Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes   Sample images

34. HIGHSMITH (CAROL M.) ARCHIVE [highsm] -- 2,500 negatives and transparencies (23 catalog records).
    1980-2005. 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. More information
    How much digitized? Some     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes

35. HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY/HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD/HISTORIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPES SURVEY (HABS/HAER/HALS) [hh] -- Documentation for more than 37,000 sites and structures.
    ca. 1930- . Measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for structures and sites dating from the 17th-20th centuries in the U.S. and its territories. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample documentation

36. HORYDCZAK COLLECTION [hory] -- about 14,000 negatives.
    1923-1959. U.S., especially Washington, D.C., showing architecture and daily life. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

37. JOHNSTON (FRANCES BENJAMIN) COLLECTION [fbj] -- about 1,700 photographs (selection from full collection; records being added)
    ca. 1850-1949, bulk 1897-1927. Photos produced and gathered by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the course of her career as a photojournalist, portrait and architectural photographer. Consists primarily of photos in the Johnston collection for which copy photos have been produced. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

38. LAMB STUDIOS ARCHIVE [lamb] -- about 2,500 drawings
    1869-1990s. 2,500 preparatory and study sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture designed by J. & R. Lamb Studios. More information
    How much digitized? Most     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Jpegs display; tiffs available only for selected images     Sample images

39. LAWRENCE & HOUSEWORTH COLLECTION [lawhou] - about 900 photographic prints
    ca. 1862-1867. Stereographic halves from the series published as Gems of California Scenery showing major settlements, boom towns, placer and hydraulic mining operations, shipping and transportation routes, and scenic sites in northern California and western Nevada. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

40. LOMAX COLLECTION [lomax] -- about 400 photographs.
    1934-ca. 1950. Snapshots documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song, including African American and Latino musicians, singers, and dancers, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

41. LOOK COLLECTION [look] -- 3.9 million photographs, negatives, and color transparencies (about 10,000 catalog records).
    ca. 1951-1971. U.S. and international lifestyles, celebrities, and events, made for use in LOOK magazine. More information
    How much digitized? None

42. MATSON (G. ERIC AND EDITH) NEGATIVES [matpc] -- about 13,800 negatives
    1898 to 1946. Negatives made by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor, the Matson Photo Service, illustrating Middle East culture, history, and political events including people and locations in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip), Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

43. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS IN HIGH DEMAND [item] -- about 79,400 prints, photographs, and drawings cataloged since 1989--successor to Biographical and Subject card indexes; (records being added)
    1500's - 1980's. Most are items for which copy photography has been requested.
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? A few do; most do not   Sample images

44. NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE COLLECTION [nclc] -- about 5,100 photographs
    1908-1924. Photographs, primarily by Lewis Hine, focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions, and educational settings. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

45. NATIONAL PHOTO COMPANY COLLECTION [npco] -- about 35,500 photographs (all negatives and a selection of photographic prints; records being added)
    ca. 1850-1945, bulk 1909-1932. Photos assembled by Herbert French, who supplied photographs of news events in Washington, D.C., to subscribers. Features portraits of presidents and celebrities and scenes of social life. Includes a growing proportion of the original negatives in the National Photo Company Collection ans well as some photographic prints for which copy photos have been produced. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

46. PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS [pano] -- about 4,200 photographs.
    1880-1930. U.S. and foreign sites, showing cities and towns, as well as events, industries, and group portraits. More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

47. PH FILING SERIES PHOTOGRAPHS [ph] -- more than 3,200 photographic prints and photographic portfolios
    ca. 1841-2001. Selected individual photographic prints of great aesthetic, technical, or historic importance and similarly significant sets of unbound prints in published or unpublished portfolios. More information
    How much digitized? Some    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Some do    Sample images

48. PHOTOCHROM PRINTS [pchrom] -- about 5,900 items
    ca. 1890-1905. People, architecture and sites in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

49. POPULAR GRAPHIC ARTS [pga] -- about 12,900 prints
    1600-1943, bulk 1800-1890. Prints and illustrated broadsides of historical, graphic and/or documentary importance produced in the U.S. and abroad. More information
    How much digitized? Many    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

50. POSTERS: ARTIST POSTERS [pos] --about 2,600 posters selected from the Artist Poster filing series (records being added)
    ca. 1840s-present. Posters notable for their design by artists (some unidentified) from all countries. Includes all subjects (e.g., documentary posters, travel and transportation, political propaganda, etc.). More information
    How much digitized? Some    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

51. POSTERS: PERFORMING ARTS POSTERS [var] --about 2,100 posters.
    1840-1936 (bulk 1879-1910). Posters from three collections: Theatrical Poster Collection (ca. 1,775 posters); Minstrel Poster Collection (ca. 175 posters); and Magic Poster Collection (ca. 150 posters). More information
    How much digitized? Most    Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

52. POSTERS: SPANISH CIVIL WAR POSTERS [spcw] -- 124 posters.
    1936-1939. Posters sponsored by Republican and anti-Republican groups, trade unions, Catalonian nationalists, and international factions, on themes relating to the causes, conduct, and consequences of the civil war. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No    Sample images

53. POSTERS: WORLD WAR I POSTERS [wwipos] -- about 1,800 posters
    1914-1920. American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and other posters supporting the war effort. (Note: Some posters will also be retrieved when searching Posters: Artist Posters).
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

54. POSTERS: WPA POSTERS [wpapos] -- about 900 posters.
    1936-1943. Posters produced by various branches of the WPA to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

55. POSTERS: YANKER POSTER COLLECTION [yan] -- about 3,500 items.
    1927-1980, bulk 1965-1980. Political, propaganda and social issue posters, handbills, and a few bumper stickers, produced in the U.S. and about 50 other countries. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? No   Sample images

56. PROKUDIN-GORSKII COLLECTION [prok] -- about 1,900 glass plate negatives by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii using three-part color separation technique and approximately 2,400 prints mounted in fourteen albums.
    1905-1915. Photographic survey of the Russian Empire, showing people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, water and railway transportation routes, villages and cities. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

57. STEREOGRAPH CARDS [stereo] -- about 7,500 stereographs (selection from full collection; records being added)
    ca. 1860-1945, bulk 1870-1920. Stereo card photographs, featuring sites around the world and popular topics such as expositions, industry, disasters, and portraits of presidents. Consists of individual stereos from the division's stereo self-indexing files and groups (LOTs) for which an online record exists, usually because a copy photo or digital file showing half or all of the stereo has been produced. More information
    How much digitized? Most     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Most do    Sample images

58. THESAURUS FOR GRAPHIC MATERIALS [TGM] - Subject and genre terms used in many Prints & Photographs Division records, along with cross-references. More information

59. TISSANDIER COLLECTION [tisc] -- about 420 prints, drawings and photographs (selection from full collection)
    1773-1909, bulk 1780-1880. Pictures documenting the early history of aeronautics, with an emphasis on balloon flight. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images

60. UNPROCESSED MATERIALS HELD ONSITE [iucpub] -- about 3,000 records for photographs, prints, drawings, and other visual materials.
    Materials have not yet been prepared for routine service (i.e., cataloged, marked, conserved, and rehoused) and must be served by special arrangement (see "Access to Unprocessed Materials").
    How much digitized? None

61. VAN VECHTEN COLLECTION [vanv] -- about 1,400 photographs by Carl Van Vechten.
    1932-1964. U.S. -- includes portraits of celebrities, especially artists, entertainers, and authors, including African Americans active in these fields. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

62. WORLD'S TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION [wtc] -- 584 lantern slides and 297 photographic prints.
    1894-1896. Asia, Australia, and Oceania, showing scenes and sites, with an emphasis on transportation systems. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes     Sample images

63. WRIGHT BROTHERS NEGATIVES [Wright] -- 303 negatives
    1897-1928. Photos, mostly taken by the Wright brothers to document their new flying machines, including views of their laboratory, engines, models, experimental planes, runways, flights, accidents, as well as portraits, buildings and landscapes. More information
    How much digitized? All     Jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress? Yes    Sample images