Finding Aids
A finding aid provides a detailed description of a collection by summarizing its arrangement and contents. Most Library of Congress online finding aids utilize Encoded Archival Description (EAD), enabling one to search multiple finding aids across divisions in a single search. Finding aid PDFs are also provided to facilitate printing.
Only select collections have an online finding aid. This list is not a comprehensive reflection of all P&P collections.
A
- Adelman (Bob) Photograph Archive [View Finding aid] [PDF : 416.603KB / 82 pages]
- African American Expressive Culture in Philadelphia Project [View Finding aid] [PDF : 320.114KB / 60 pages]
B
- Bachrach Studio Portraits of Notables [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.063KB / 8 pages]
- Beard (Daniel Carter) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138.697KB / 16 pages]
- Bendiner (Alfred) Memorial Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 751.138KB / 183 pages]
- Bernays (Edward L.) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 153.275KB / 15 pages]
- Blackwell Family Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 164.126KB / 8 pages]
- Breitenbach (Josef) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 164.280KB / 21 pages]
- Bulfinch Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 268.616KB / 44 pages]
C
- Cartoons about the Franco-Prussian War in French, German, and Italian [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129.931KB / 8 pages]
- Church (Marilyn) Collection of Courtroom Art [View Finding aid] [PDF : 346.253KB / 69 pages]
- Constant (Maurice) Photographic Portraits of Allied Military and Political Leaders [View Finding aid] [PDF : 149.734KB / 13 pages]
- Copyright Deposits: Class KFO [View Finding aid] [PDF : 141.943KB / 20 pages]
D
- Deane (Ruthven) Bookplate Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 5676.132KB / 1641 pages]
- Denny (Diana) Caricature and Illustration Drawings Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 153.385KB / 13 pages]
- Drayer Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1935.356KB / 483 pages]
E
- Eames, Slide Photograph Series in the Work of Charles and Ray Eames [View Finding aid] [PDF : 4057.257KB / 1175 pages]
- Edwards (Benjamin K.) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 279.202KB / 52 pages]
- Ellison (Ralph) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 334.267KB / 68 pages]
- Exit Art Reactions Exhibit Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 793.307KB / 258 pages]
F
- Farm Security Administration, Historical Section Written Records [View Finding aid] [PDF : 212.189KB / 29 pages]
- Fayer (George) Portrait Photograph Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129.759KB / 8 pages]
- Featherstonhaugh Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 189.546KB / 24 pages]
- Flanner (Janet) and Solano (Solita) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 313.399KB / 61 pages]
G
- Goldsberry Collection of Open-air School Photographs [View Finding aid] [PDF : 169.463KB / 21 pages]
- Goode (James M.) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 347.994KB / 57 pages]
- Goodman (Charles M.) Architectural Archive [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1669.061KB / 425 pages]
- Gotfryd (Bernard) Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 505.753KB / 132 pages]
H
- Heaton Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 3220.561KB / 857 pages]
- Hecht (Dietrich) Collection of Bilderbogen [View Finding aid] [PDF : 2287.795KB / 698 pages]
- Homes and Haunts of Notable Americans [View Finding aid] [PDF : 132.258KB / 10 pages]
I
- Ickes (Harold L.) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 121.256KB / 11 pages]
J
- Jacobsen Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 260.790KB / 48 pages]
- Johnston (Frances Benjamin) photograph collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 931.598KB / 230 pages]
K
- Königliche Preussische Messbildanstalt, Photographs Selected [View Finding aid] [PDF : 365.486KB / 83 pages]
- Korab (Balthazar) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 4845.391KB / 1443 pages]
L
- L.L. Cook Company Postcard Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 96.651KB / 6 pages]
- Latrobe Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 293.501KB / 51 pages]
- Look Magazine Picture Research File (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1016.663KB / 303 pages]
- Luce (Clare Boothe) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 130.269KB / 14 pages]
M
- MacDonald (Pirie) Photographic Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 152.413KB / 18 pages]
- McNeill (Robert H.) Family Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 751.797KB / 191 pages]
- Miller of Washington Collection of Photographic Portraits of Notables [View Finding aid] [PDF : 201.806KB / 30 pages]
- Moral Re-armament Records, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 4925.660KB / 1505 pages]
- Mullett & Co. Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 491.091KB / 103 pages]
N
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Records (Library of Congress), Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 531.764KB / 115 pages]
- National Photo Company Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 534.468KB / 114 pages]
- National Woman’s Party Records, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 100.943KB / 6 pages]
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Biographical File, A to L [View Finding aid] [PDF : 22904.173KB / 4828 pages]
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Biographical File, M to Z [View Finding aid] [PDF : 18263.112KB / 3842 pages]
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Subject/Geographical File [View Finding aid] [PDF : 8991.746KB / 2897 pages]
O
- O'Connor Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 386.896KB / 76 pages]
P
- Patent Medicine Labels and Advertisements (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 92.520KB / 6 pages]
- Photograph Album on Early Aviation Owned by the Family of Ian Hornak [View Finding aid] [PDF : 133.382KB / 11 pages]
- Plowden (David) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 147.820KB / 19 pages]
- Portraits of Men who Served as Union and Confederate Military Officers in the American Civil War [View Finding aid] [PDF : 181.890KB / 21 pages]
R
- Ray Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 569.831KB / 120 pages]
- Robson (May), Film Stills of Productions Featuring Actress [View Finding aid] [PDF : 94.369KB / 6 pages]
S
- Schomacker (Donald E.) Courthouse Photography Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 154.380KB / 18 pages]
- Schreiber Collection of European Book Illustrations [View Finding aid] [PDF : 259.378KB / 39 pages]
- Sekaer (Peter) Photograph Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 174.871KB / 29 pages]
- Sheet Music Cover Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 107.663KB / 11 pages]
- Smith & Associated Architects Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 439.951KB / 81 pages]
- Smith (Sidney Lawton), Prints and Bookplates by Sidney Lawton Smith [View Finding aid] [PDF : 112.511KB / 9 pages]
- Souvenir Booklets of Washington, D.C., and Environs [View Finding aid] [PDF : 132.578KB / 9 pages]
- Spivak (Lawrence E.) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 737.050KB / 182 pages]
- Stereographs Showing Staged Story Sequences [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.896KB / 13 pages]
- Study Collection of 18th and 19th-Century American Book Illustrations and Portrait Prints [View Finding aid] [PDF : 176.046KB / 21 pages]
T
- Tobacco Label Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 101.486KB / 9 pages]
U
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 9136.134KB / 2604 pages]
- Ursinus (Oskar) Collection of Aeronautical Pictures [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136.076KB / 10 pages]
- Uzzle (Burk) Photojournalism Collection (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 229.478KB / 38 pages]
W
- Waggaman & Ray Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 2448.801KB / 664 pages]
- Washington (Booker T.) Papers, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 131.521KB / 13 pages]
- Waterman Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 736.271KB / 164 pages]
- Whitman (Walt) Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Visual Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 259.802KB / 48 pages]
- Wood Architectural Drawing Archive (Library of Congress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 421.777KB / 82 pages]
- Woolf (Samuel J.) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 171.196KB / 15 pages]
- Works by American Sculptors [View Finding aid] [PDF : 240.751KB / 46 pages]
Y
- Young (Katherine) Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 147.348KB / 12 pages]