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    Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey Overview of the HABS/HAER/HALS collections, which document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design from the 17th-20th centuries in the United States and its territories through measured drawings, photographs, and written historical…
    • Contributor: Historic American Buildings Survey
    • Date: 1933

    Collection Items: View 45,519 Items

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    Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. For the first time, digital scans…
    • Contributor: Adams, Ansel
    • Date: 1943

    Collection Items: View 258 Items

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    Van Vechten Collection Comprised of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964, the bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the…
    • Contributor: Mauriber, Saul - Lutz, Mark - Van Vechten, Carl - Taylor, Prentiss
    • Date: 1927

    Collection Items: View 1,417 Items

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    Lomax Collection The collection includes 400 snapshot photographs made in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax, between 1934 and ca. 1950 for…
    • Contributor: Lomax, John A. (John Avery) - Archive of American Folk Song - Lomax, Ruby T. (Ruby Terrill) - Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1934

    Collection Items: View 451 Items

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    Civil War Explore the faces, places and events of the U.S. Civil War through photographs, prints and drawings. The Prints & Photographs Division holds thousands of images relating to the Civil War, found in…
    • Contributor: O'Sullivan, Timothy H. - Gibson, James F. - Barnard, George N. - Smith, William Morris - Gardner, Alexander - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1860

    Collection Items: View 20,520 Items

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    Horydczak Collection The Theodor Horydczak Collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential,…
    • Contributor: Horydczak, Theodor
    • Date: 1915

    Collection Items: View 14,331 Items

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    Daguerreotypes There are approximately 700 daguerreotypes in the Prints & Photographs Division. The majority of the images are portraits, but the collection does include a few early architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies…
    • Contributor: Cornelius, Robert - Anson, Rufus - Washington, Augustus - Brady, Mathew B.
    • Date: 1839

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    Detroit Publishing Company Includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. Subjects strongly represented in the collection include city and town views,…
    • Contributor: Johnston, J. S. (John S.) - Glover. L. S. (Lycurgus S.) - Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood) - Hart, Edward H. - Jackson, William Henry - Byron (Firm : New York, N.Y.) - Detroit Publishing Co
    • Date: 1880

    Collection Items: View 25,173 Items

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    World's Transportation Commission This collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs,rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed…
    • Contributor: Jackson, William Henry
    • Date: 1894

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    Posters: WPA Posters This collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more…
    • Date: 1936

    Collection Items: View 947 Items

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    Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs New Photos Added! View the most recent additions
    • Contributor: Liljenquist, Brandon Paul - Liljenquist, Jason George - Liljenquist, Christian Blaine - Liljenquist, Thomas Richard
    • Date: 1850

    Collection Items: View 7,916 Items

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    Gottscho-Schleisner Collection The collection of more than 45,000 items (negatives, transparencies and prints) came to the Library of Congress in the early 1980s. The online collection provides access to 29,000 negatives and color transparencies.…
    • Contributor: Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman) - Schleisner, William H. (William Herman) - Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc
    • Date: 1896

    Collection Items: View 29,010 Items

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    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the…
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Federal Writers' Project - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
    • Date: 2001

    Collection Items: View 603 Items

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    Baseball Cards The Benjamin K. Edwards Collection includes 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Distributed in cigarette packs, these cards were the forerunners of modern sports trading cards. They portray such…
    • Contributor: American Tobacco Company
    • Date: 1887

    Collection Items: View 2,130 Items

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    Panoramic Photographs Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More…
    • Contributor: Pillsbury Picture Co - Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.) - Geo. R. Lawrence Co - West Coast Art Co - Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio)
    • Date: 1851

    Collection Items: View 4,320 Items

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    Fine Prints About 85,000 prints created as art works, ca. 1450-present (most dating between 1800 and the present). Prints by American printmakers and artists (e.g., Paul Revere, Mary Cassatt, Jim Dine, Joseph Pennell) predominate,…
    • Date: 1450

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    Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs that depict life in the…
    • Contributor: Collins, Marjory - Downey, Jack - Jacobs, Fenno - Dixon, Royden - Siegel, Arthur S. - United States. Farm Security Administration - Rothstein, Arthur - Vachon, John - Rittase, William M. - Hollem, Howard R. ... Collins, Marjory - Downey, Jack - Jacobs, Fenno - Dixon, Royden - Siegel, Arthur S. - United States. Farm Security Administration - Rothstein, Arthur - Vachon, John - Rittase, William M. - Hollem, Howard R. - Delano, Jack - Sherwood, Mark - Collier, John - Rous, John - Bransby, David - United States. Office of War Information - Feininger, Andreas - Rosskam, Louise - Liberman, Howard - Palmer, Alfred T. - Lee, Russell - Wolcott, Marion Post
    • Date: 1939

    Collection Items: View 1,623 Items

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    Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive Photographs of landmark buildings and architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States. The first 23 groups of photographs contain more than 2,500 images and date from 1980 to…
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 1980

    Collection Items: View 70,224 Items