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American National Red Cross photograph collection
- Title: American National Red Cross photograph collection
- Other Title:
Red Cross collection
ANRC collection - Date Created/Published: 1889-1950, bulk 1910-1950.
- Medium: ca. 90,000 photographs ; negatives and prints ; most 11 x 14 in. or smaller
- Summary: Photographs of Red Cross relief work and staff members. The collection is composed largely of photos taken by Red Cross staff members during and following World War I. These depict living conditions, medical facilities, refugees, U.S. military personnel, buildings, and topography in over sixteen European and Asian countries. Although domestic coverage is less extensive, the collection includes staff portraits and photos of Red Cross conventions, instructional programs, and disaster relief operations. (Source: Melville guide)
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- Rights Advisory:
Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
- Access Advisory: For unprocessed portion of the collection: Please allow fourteen days advance notice to view materials. To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html)
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Some prints are grouped in LOTs and available for routine service. Most of the photographic prints (ca. 62,000) are grouped by country and subject. The negatives are on glass (ca. 20,000) in series with the prefix code LC-A6 to A6197.
- This preliminary catalog record contains draft information to be verified and expanded.
- Paul Ramey and Lewis Hine are among the World War I photographers represented.
- Title from Special collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980.
- Special collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 12
- Guide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Reference Department, 1955, no. 16
- Includes one photograph of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
- Digitized images of some items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
- Gift; Red Cross; 1944 and 1952.
- A local card index, received with the collection, includes extensive caption, date, and photographer credit for the glass negatives.
- Published in: Milhollen, Hirst D. "The American Red Cross Collection of Photographs and Negatives," Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 2 (Feb. 1945): 32-38, reprinted in A Century of Photographs, 1846-1946, Selected from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1980).
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- Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 90,000 photographs ; negatives and prints ; most 11 x 14 in. or smaller
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 90,000 photographs ; negatives and prints ; most 11 x 14 in. or smaller
- Access Advisory: For unprocessed portion of the collection: Please allow fourteen days advance notice to view materials. To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html
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