With very few exceptions, images from the Look Collection have not been digitized. (Instructions for ordering digitized images are included in the general instructions available when you select "How to obtain copies of this item" from a catalog record.)

Entire jobs

• Unable to view the materials in person: A researcher unable to visit the P&P Reading Room might order photocopies of all contact sheets for purposes of further selecting individual images to be reproduced
• Only negatives are available for the job: In order to view images in a job that does not include contact sheets (such jobs will mention only negatives in the MEDIUM field of the catalog record), researchers can order contact sheets of all the negatives from the job. (For more information on this circumstance, see the Access section.)

Individual images

Published images (photocopies from the magazine pages)

• Reproduction numbers are recorded beside those images produced by Look.
• Only those numbers that are followed by the word "color" or "col." can be used to obtain a color reproduction. (Some color images have no color reproduction number because the original color slide or transparency was not in the collection when it was donated to the Library of Congress.)
• Some images produced by Look have no reproduction number at all; in such cases "no neg." is written beside the image.
• Because Look often cropped or otherwise altered an image when publishing it, patrons may wish to look at the contact sheet of the black-and-white negatives to see how the image will actually print.

Published and unpublished images on contact sheets

Detail of verso of a Look contact sheet showing annotation about what negatives are available (LOOK Job 59-8405) Retrieve catalog record

• Reproduction numbers are recorded on the back of the contact sheet.
• If one or more images on a contact sheet do not have corresponding negatives, this is indicated on the back of the contact sheet below the stamp. Patrons should be sure to check that there is a negative for the image they wish to have reproduced.
• When placing orders, patrons should supply a xerox copy of the front and back of the contact sheet and highlight the particular frame they wish to have reproduced.

The various LC-L9... codes that are used to prefix reproduction numbers identify whether it is a black-and-white negative or a color transparency/slide, the film type, and its size.

In general: