Digital Collections
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CollectionArchitecture, Design & Engineering Drawings The Architecture, Design, and Engineering category covers about 40,000 drawings (described in more than 3,900 catalog records), spanning 1600 to 1989, with most dating between 1880 and 1940. The designs are primarily…- Date: 1750
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CollectionBrumfield Collection William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the jumping-off point for the explorers,…- Contributor: Brumfield, William Craft
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 1,139 Items
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CollectionCabinet of American Illustration Contains more than four thousand original drawings by American book, magazine, and newspaper illustrators, made primarily between 1880 and 1910. The collection includes illustrations for magazines, novels, and children's books; cartoons; cover…- Contributor: Steele, Frederic Dorr - Herford, Oliver - Rogers, W. A. (William Allen) - Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) - Wright, George Hand - Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay) - Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas) - Fogarty, Thomas - Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green - Beard, Daniel Carter
- Date: 1830
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CollectionCarnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South Noted architectural photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) created a systematic record of early American buildings and gardens called the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (CSAS). This collection, created primarily…- Contributor: Carnegie Corporation of New York - Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1864
Collection Items: View 6,965 Items
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CollectionCase Books Consists of more than 2,200 books and serials spanning the period 1550 to the present, with most published between 1840 and 1970. Illustrations are the featured aspect of these works, and many…- Date: 1550
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CollectionCollege Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection More than 180 artists living and working in Japan created the 212 fine art prints in the College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection. The prints, dating primarily from 2003 to…- Contributor: College Women's Association of Japan
- Date: 1987
Collection Items: View 214 Items
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CollectionComics Literature and Criticism Web Archive This collection includes various forms of comics literature and criticism, such as blogs and other online publication platforms, to preserve contemporary discussion regarding this format/genre/subject in its various forms (comic books, comic…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division
- Date: 2018
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CollectionDaguerreotypes 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: Washington, Augustus - Cornelius, Robert - Anson, Rufus - Brady, Mathew B.
- Date: 1839
Collection Items: View 873 Items
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CollectionDetroit 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: Hart, Edward H. - Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood) - Byron (Firm : New York, N.Y.) - Detroit Publishing Co - Jackson, William Henry - Johnston, J. S. (John S.) - Glover. L. S. (Lycurgus S.)
- Date: 1880
Collection Items: View 25,172 Items
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CollectionDrawings (Documentary) The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 4,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. Also included are topographical…- Date: 1750
Collection Items: View 3,288 Items
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CollectionDrawings (Master) Background and Scope: Joseph Pennell Drawings Some 4,700 drawings created by American artist, illustrator, printmaker, and writer Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) are preserved in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Such…- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 203 Items
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CollectionFederal Theatre Project, 1935 to 1939 This online presentation includes items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, playbills, programs, and playscripts, including productions…- Contributor: Gottlieb, William P.
- Date: 1938
Collection Items: View 9,243 Items
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CollectionFine 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
Collection Items: View 4,516 Items
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CollectionFine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library…- Contributor: Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Sadahide - Ikkei - Andō, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo
- Date: 1615
Collection Items: View 2,769 Items
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CollectionFrederick Law Olmsted Papers The papers of farmer, writer, reformer, landscape architect, urban and suburban planner, and conservationist Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) consist of approximately 24,000 items (roughly 47,300 images), most of which were digitized from…- Contributor: Olmsted, Gideon - Olmsted, Frederick Law - Olmsted, John
Collection Items: View 741 Items
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CollectionGarden and Forest Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry,…- Contributor: Sargent, Charles Sprague
- Date: 1888
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CollectionGenthe Collection Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was an internationally recognized photographer working in the soft-focus pictorialist style. The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio after his death.- Contributor: Genthe, Arnold
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 16,862 Items
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CollectionGeorgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence This collection of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Correspondence and Related Material (157 items; 618 images) consists mostly of letters, 1929-1947, written by painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and her husband, Photo-Secession movement…- Contributor: O'Keeffe, Georgia - Stieglitz, Alfred
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CollectionGeospatial Applications Story Maps and web maps produced at the Library of Congress utilize geospatial technology to create curated entry points into our digital collections. We invite you to explore the incredible stories of…Collection Items: View 118 Items
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CollectionGoldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings This category consists of all of the individually issued prints and drawings in the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection: 1,688 items dating primarily from the 1880s to the 1960s. The collection…- Date: 1800
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CollectionGottscho-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-Schleisner, Inc - Schleisner, William H. (William Herman) - Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman)
- Date: 1896
Collection Items: View 29,010 Items
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CollectionGroups of Images (LOTs) More than 13,000 groups of photographs, prints, drawings, and other visual material offer access to 1.5 million items dating primarily from the 1800s through the present. The groups, called "LOTs," gather images…- Date: 1800
Collection Items: View 13,028 Items
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CollectionGuide Records This category provides an overview of collections in the Prints & Photographs Division in order to indicate the breadth and depth of the visual resources available for research. The descriptions of "filing…- Date: 1839
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CollectionHighsmith (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 69,100 Items
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CollectionHistoric 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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CollectionHorydczak 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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CollectionIlka Kolsky Artwork The Russian-born artist Ilka [Irène] Kolsky (1909–1938) worked in Paris in the 1930s. It was in Paris that she and violinist Roman Totenberg became acquainted and developed a close relationship. Kolsky had…Collection Items: View 62 Items
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CollectionJay I. Kislak Collection The Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas is composed of important archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps and graphic works of art, which survey the…Collection Items: View 363 Items
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CollectionJohnston (Frances Benjamin) Collection NEW! See Gardens and Historic Houses in more than 1,000 hand-colored photos Collection Overview: Lantern Slides for Garden & Historic House Lectures Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American…- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1864
Collection Items: View 3,144 Items
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CollectionKorab Collection Represented in this online collection is a selection from the Korab Collection. Included are: Almost 800 photographs by Balthazar Korab documenting 19 projects designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Included are…- Contributor: Korab, Balthazar
- Date: 1955
Collection Items: View 2,462 Items
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CollectionLamb Studios Archive This online presentation offers images of nearly 2,500 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings feature striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the…- Contributor: J. & R. Lamb Studios
- Date: 1869
Collection Items: View 2,456 Items
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CollectionLawrence & Houseworth Collection In 1867 the Library of Congress acquired a set of more than 900 albumen silver half stereographs published by Lawrence and Houseworth of San Francisco. The acquisition also included the third edition…- Contributor: Lawrence & Houseworth
- Date: 1862
Collection Items: View 910 Items
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CollectionThe Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Of these, twenty-five were made by the American Mutoscope…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Staples (Robert) & Charles (Barbara) Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1897
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CollectionLiving Nations, Living Words This collection—part of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Living Nations, Living Words” signature project—contains audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets reading and discussing an original poem. Listen to Joy Harjo, Louise…Collection Items: View 49 Items
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CollectionManuscript Division Web Archive The Manuscript Division Web Archive includes principally websites of organizations with which the Division has an existing relationship. Although diverse in content, they fall into several broad categories. First, there are sites…- Contributor: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - Library of Congress - Center for International Private Enterprise - Navy League of the United States - Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century - National Consumers' League - American Council of Learned Societies - National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) - Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) ... American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training - Library of Congress - Center for International Private Enterprise - Navy League of the United States - Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century - National Consumers' League - American Council of Learned Societies - National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) - Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - Phi Beta Kappa - Freud Museum (London, England) - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs - American Historical Association - American Society of Landscape Architects - Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.) - Ameen Rihani Organization - Sigmund Freud Archives - Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit - Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society - National Urban League - Solidarity Center (Afl-Cio) - National Council of Jewish Women - National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (U.S.) - American Studies Association - Society of Woman Geographers - Streit Council for a Union of Democracies - Sigmund Freud Copyrights (Firm) - National Coalition for History - League of Women Voters (U.S.)
- Date: 2008
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CollectionMontgomery C. Meigs Papers The papers of army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892) consist of 11,000 items (42,508 images), most of which were digitized from 51 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning…- Contributor: Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham) - Meigs, Montgomery
Collection Items: View 323 Items
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CollectionMotion Picture Copyright Descriptions Collection The Motion Picture Copyright Descriptions Collection consists of forms, abstracts, plot summaries, dialogue and continuity scripts, press kits, publicity and other material, submitted for the purpose of enabling descriptive cataloging for motion…Collection Items: View 29,162 Items
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CollectionNational Child Labor Committee Collection Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The NCLC…- Contributor: National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) - Hine, Lewis Wickes
- Date: 1908
Collection Items: View 5,125 Items
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CollectionNational Photo Company Collection This collection documents virtually all aspects of Washington, D.C., life. During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington,…- Contributor: National Photo Company
- Date: 1909
Collection Items: View 35,613 Items
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CollectionNational Screening Room The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library's vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, accessible to the viewers worldwide.…Collection Items: View 1,220 Items