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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
It is possible to order, through the Library
of Congress Photoduplication Service, copies
of all materials from a Look job
by citing the job number. Reasons to do
so include:
- 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
Materials prepared for viewing in the P&P
Reading Room have been marked to indicate
the reproduction number used for ordering
photographic copies of 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Published and unpublished images on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)
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- 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:
If it begins with: |
It is a: |
LC-L9 |
b&w negative [35mm and 120 size] |
LC-L914 |
b&w negative [4x5 inch or larger
size] |
LC-L917 |
b&w copy negative [4x5 inch] |
LC-L92, L922, L924, L927 |
b&w nitrate negative [35mm and
larger] |
LC-L901 |
color slide, published [35mm] |
LC-L901A |
color slide, unpublished [35mm] |
LC-L901B |
color slide, unpublished [120 size] |
LC-L903 |
color film negative |
LC-L904 |
film color transparency [larger
than 120 size] |
LC-L904A |
film color transparency, unpublished [8x10 inch] |
LC-L905 |
film color transparency [120 size] |
LC-L905A |
color transparencies [unmounted 35 mm and unpublished 120 size] |
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