[Roll Call portion of CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)]

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[Roll Call portion of CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)]

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Title: [Roll Call portion of CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)]
Date Created/Published: [Washington, D.C.]: [1950-2000, bulk 1988-2000]
Medium: 274,328 negatives : b&w and some color ; film width 35mm (roll format)
10,381 contact sheets : b&w and some color ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
2,113 photographs : gelatin silver and dye coupler ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
4,129 slides : color ; 35mm (slide format)
Summary: Photographs show activities and events relating to the U.S. Congress primarily from 1988 to March 2000. Topics include press conferences, congressional committee hearings and meetings; legislation involving the budget, health care, campaign finance reform and gun control; ethics investigations; visits to Congress from foreign leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama; activities of political party organizations including the Republican National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; social events such as fundraisers and birthday parties; the activities of congressional organizations including the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Arts Caucus; swearing-in ceremonies, State of the Union addresses; celebrities including Diana Ross, Johnny Cash, Steven Spielberg, The Grateful Dead, Mary Tyler Moore and others; memorial services for Congress members; presidential inaugurations, and the annual Congressional Baseball Game and other sports events. The collection includes images of major events of the time period such as the impeachment of President Clinton, the shooting of Capitol Hill Police officers John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut; and the "Republican Revolution" of 1994. Portraits of Congress members and congressional staff make up a large portion of the collection, with many images taken for two regular columns "The Inquiring Paparazza" and "Hill Climbers." Images of congressional leaders such as Newt Gingrich, Tom Foley, Tom Daschle and Mitch McConnell are especially frequent. Members of the U.S. Capitol Police, the Architect of the Capitol, cafeteria staff, House Folding Room employees, and congressional committee staff are also depicted. Some images of presidents and first ladies and vice presidents including Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, Betty Ford, Jimmy and Roslyn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, H.W. and Barbara Bush, Dan Quayle, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Al and Tipper Gore can be found. Some portraits of lobbyists and staff of national and local organizations are included. Many images depict demonstrations and rallies in Washington, D.C. on issues such as abortion, District of Columbia statehood, gay rights, welfare, campaign finance reform, sexual harassment, civil rights, and the environment. Most images depict events and people in Washington, D.C. However, there is some coverage of political campaigns in places such as Georgia, California and Massachusetts and many images of the national Democratic and Republican conventions. Also included are screenshots of numerous political television advertisements for congressional candidates. Images document architecture, especially the U.S. Capitol, the Library of Congress, the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, and the House and Senate office buildings. Another major portion of the collection portrays life in the Capitol Hill neighborhood including businesses, restaurants, stores, Eastern Market, local residents, schools, house, churches, and Congressional Cemetery.
Reproduction Number: ---
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on work by staff photographers. Other material may be restricted by copyright. Privacy and publicity rights may also apply. For information see: "CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/683_cqrc.html)
Access Advisory: Negatives and transparencies are not served to researchers.
Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: Roll Call) [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: Organized into three series: negatives and transparencies (slides), contact sheets and photographs.
- Arrangement: Negatives and transparencies arranged into three groups: b&w negatives, color negatives and transparencies. Within those groups items arranged chronologically by Library-assigned sequential numbers in the following series: LC-RC15 (35mm b&w negatives), LC-RC06 (35mm color negatives); and LC-RC05 (35mm color transparencies).
- Arrangement: Photographs are arranged into two LOTS: LOT 14092 (Subject File photographs from the CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection (Roll Call portion)) and LOT 14080 (Congressional Baseball Game photographs from the CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection (Roll Call portion)). A few printed fliers are included in these LOTs.
- Arrangement: The contact sheets are available as a browsing file in the Prints & Photographs Division Reading Room. Contact sheets arranged into two groups: contact sheets made from b&w negatives and contact sheets made from color negatives and color transparencies. Within those groups contact sheets are arranged chronologically by Library-assigned sequential numbers. If no contact sheet was available, a reference viewing copy (digital print) was made by Library staff and filed with the contact sheets. Note that some of the contact sheets made from color negatives are b&w.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- A CQ Roll Call Supplementary Archive which includes a few caption lists is available. Duplicates are in PR 09 CN 2011:177.
- Roll Call was founded in 1955 by Sid Yudain as a community newspaper focusing on the U.S. Congress and Capitol Hill. In 1986, Yudain sold the newspaper to Arthur Leavitt Jr. who expanded its staff and increased its publication frequency. The paper was sold again in 1993 to The Economist Group. A subsidiary of this company, CQ Roll Call, has published Roll Call since 2009.
- The Roll Call portion of the CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection dates from the time when the Roll Call was owned by Leavitt and The Economist Group (1988-2000). Most of the pre-1988 material was returned to the photographers. Some images from the 1950s-1970s can be found in LOT 14092 and LOT 14080. Material after March 2000 was retained by The Economist Group.
- Roll Call staff photographers included Maureen Keating, Christopher Ayers, Susana Raab, Rebecca Roth, Laura Patterson, Maya Alleruzzo and others. Some photographs by non-staff photographers are included in the collection. For a more complete list see http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/683_cqrc.html
- Microfilm of Roll Call (1955-2010) is available in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Call number: Microfilm 05525JK).
- An electronic full-text version of Roll Call issues with no images, is available through LexisNexis Library Express (12/01/1989 to the present). Electronic text is also available through ProQuest (Central; Research Library; and Congressional databases) (1/19/1998 to the present).
- Print copies of Roll Call are located at Ft Meade (1/16/1955 - 6/8/1968); the Law Library Reading Room: (1/2012 - present); the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room: (1/2012 - present).
- Forms part of: CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection.
- Gift; CQ Roll Call; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:177).
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- Guide Records
Part of: CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on work by staff photographers. Other material may be restricted by copyright. Privacy and publicity rights may also apply. For information see: "CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/683_cqrc.html
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Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: Roll Call) [P&P]
Medium: 274,328 negatives : b&w and some color ; film width 35mm (roll format)
10,381 contact sheets : b&w and some color ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
2,113 photographs : gelatin silver and dye coupler ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
4,129 slides : color ; 35mm (slide format)

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Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: Roll Call) [P&P]
Medium: 274,328 negatives : b&w and some color ; film width 35mm (roll format)
10,381 contact sheets : b&w and some color ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
2,113 photographs : gelatin silver and dye coupler ; sheet 22 x 28 cm or smaller.
4,129 slides : color ; 35mm (slide format)
Access Advisory: Negatives and transparencies are not served to researchers.

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