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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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images
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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GUIDE RECORDS (collection
overviews) --120 records.
How much digitized? Some
catalog records link to item record/image
searching
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HARRIS & EWING COLLECTION [hec]
-- about 18,000 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
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
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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
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
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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
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KORAB COLLECTION [krb] -- 860 color and b&w photos
ca. 1937-2000. Balthazar Korab's photographs of 19 buildings designed by architect Eero Saarinen.
More
information
How much digitized? All Jpegs/tiffs
display outside Library of Congress? No Sample
images
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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THESAURUS
FOR GRAPHIC MATERIALS [TGM] - Subject
and genre terms used in many Prints & Photographs
Division records, along with cross-references. More
information
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
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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
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
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
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
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