New Online Collections from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from EXLIBRIS. Some researchers ought to consider collections such as these as resources for photographs of 19th and 20th century people, places, activities, and things. As with any catalog, don't just do keyword searching, but use the subject headings from one record to search for related images. Remember also that the archives of some collections (e.g., _Look_ magazine) contain unpublished as well as never-published photographs. cheers, Russell Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu --On Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:47 AM -0700 Laura Gottesman [lgot@loc.gov] wrote: The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division is pleased to announce that between January and March 2004, it added thousands of catalog records and images to the Library's Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html , bringing the number of images in the catalog to nearly 1 million. New materials that will be of interest to a wide variety of researchers include: National Child Labor Committee Collection (NCLC): PPOC now offers expanded and enhanced access to approximately 5,100 NCLC photographs [ca.1908-1924] which were primarily taken by the photographer Lewis Hine. These photographs are useful for their examination of labor, reform movements, working class families, education, public health, urban and rural housing conditions, industrial and agricultural sites, and other aspects of urban and rural life in America in the early twentieth century. The collection's catalog records include a wealth of information, including the locations and names of individuals and businesses featured in the photographs, transcribed from the collection's original caption cards. To view or search the collection, go to the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html, select the blue button labeled: "Search the Catalog," and then scroll down the alphabetical list of collections to "National Child Labor Committee Collection." Further information about the collection may be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcabt.html . U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection Selected photographs from this extensive collection are now available in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. In preparation for the magazine's 70th anniversary, U.S. News staff selected more than 100 photos taken between 1952 and 1983 of newsworthy subjects, including the struggle for African American civil rights, presidential campaigns, and the visits to the United States of foreign dignitaries, as well as life in Vietnam, the Middle East and Russia. Many of the photos were taken by staff photographers and have no known publication restrictions. For more information on the collection and a link to retrieve the images available in the catalog, please see the collection profile: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/129_usn.html . The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Online Catalog contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress. * The catalog provides access through group or item records to about 60 percent of the division's holdings. * About 90 percent of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images. In some collections, only thumbnail images display to those searching from outside the Library of Congress, because of rights considerations. For information on new collections and upcoming programs in the Prints and Photographs Division, see the division's "What's New" page http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/whatsnew.html. For questions about PPOC or the holdings and services of the Prints and Photographs Division, consult the division's Ask a Librarian service: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-print.html