Collections

Abdul Hamid II Collection
Photographic survey of the Ottoman Empire, showing educational, military, and other government facilities as well as historic sites. (About 1,800 photographs.)
Date:1880 - 1893
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African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition
Photos gathered for use in the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, consisting of portraits and scenes of education, work, and daily life. Includes more than 360 photos presented by W.E.B. Du Bois. (About 475 photographs (records being added).)
Date:1899 - 1900
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Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Portraits, views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities. (244 photographs.)
Date:1943 - 1943
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Architecture, Design & Engineering Drawings
Drawings, primarily for sites and structures in the U.S. (especially Washington, D.C.), as well as Europe and Mexico, mostly by American architects and architectural firms. Most cataloged in groups by project. (Note: Original materials are served by appointment.) (About 40,000 drawings, ca. 3.900 records.)
Date:1600 - 1989
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Bain Collection
Photos produced and gathered by George Grantham Bain for his news photo service, including portraits and worldwide news events, but with special emphasis on life in New York (About 41,000 photographs (all 39,744 negatives and a selection of about 1,700 photographic prints).)
Date:1900 - 1931
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Baseball Cards
Baseball cards representing more than one thousand major and minor league ballplayers (primarily major league), from teams in thirteen identified leagues and seventy-five cities in the United States and Canada. (2,100 baseball cards.)
Date:1887 - 1914
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Brady-Handy Collection
Original glass plate negatives by Mathew Brady and Levin C. Handy studios; chiefly portraits of presidents, members of Congress, military and naval officers, justices of the Supreme Court, actors, artists, religious leaders, and other notables. Also includes views of Washington, D.C., and vicinity. (About 5,000 glass negatives.)
Date:1860 - 1875
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Brumfield Collection
Documents architectural heritage of pre-Soviet Russia, highlighting wooden buildings, and religious, commercial and industrial facilities, as well as some landscapes. (About 1,100 slides.)
Date:1987 - 2000
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Cabinet of American Illustration
Book and magazine illustrations and some graphic designs. (NOTE: Original drawings served only by appointment.) (About 4,000 drawings and prints.)
Date:1850 - 1930
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Carnegie 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), which pictures an estimated 1,700 structures and sites in rural and urban areas of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and to a lesser extent Florida, Mississippi, and West Virginia. (More than 7,100 photographs.)
Date:1926 - 1944
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Carpenter Collection
Photos produced and gathered by Frank and Frances Carpenter to illustrate popular writings on world geography. Consists of photos in the Carpenter collection for which copy photos have been produced. (About 1,600 photographs (selection from full collection).)
Date:1860 - 1934
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Cartoon Drawings
Editorial, and humorous cartoons and caricatures by about 500 artists. (About 9,400 drawings.)
Date:1794 - 1994
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Cartoon Drawings: Herblock Collection
A representative sample of original drawings by Herbert L. Block ("Herblock"), an editorial cartoonist who worked primarily at the Washington Post. (More than 350 cartoons; selection from full collection of more than 14,300 original drawings; records being added.)
Date:1929 - 2001
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Cartoon Drawings: Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
Cartoons, caricatures, and illustrations by various artists. (Note: Some original items are undergoing conservation and are unavailable for viewing.) (About 2,000 drawings.)
Date:1780 - 1975
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Cartoon Prints, American
Political satires, caricatures, and allegories printed in the U.S. (About 800 prints.)
Date:1766 - 1880
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Cartoon Prints, British
British political and satirical prints highlighting aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater. Includes prints from the British Cartoon Prints Collection, call numbers PC 1, PC 2, and PC 3 (About 8,500 prints.)
Date:1621 - 1853
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Case Books
Books, serials and published, bound portfolios assigned to the Prints and Photographs Division because they contain original photographs, engravings, and other kinds of graphic materials. (About 2,200 books and serials.)
Date:1557 - 2000
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Civil War
Photographs and glass plate negatives from the Civil War Photographs Collection. (About 7,300 photographs.)
Date:1861 - 1869
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Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
Photographs and glass plate negatives from the Civil War Photographs Collection. (About 7,300 photographs.)
Date:1861 - 1869
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College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection
Fine art prints made by more than 180 artists living and working in Japan, encompassing a diversity of styles, printmaking techniques, and subject matter; the prints were selected for the organization's 50th anniversary show. (About 200 prints.)
Date:1987 - 2005
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Curtis (Edward S.) Collection
Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, New Southwest, Great Basin, Great Plains, Plateau Region, California, and Alaska. Features studio and field photographs. Selected images are primarily those for which copy photos have been produced. (About 1,000 photographic prints (selection from full collection).)
Date:1890 - 1929
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Daguerreotypes
Primarily portraits; also architectural views and works of art. (763 daguerreotypes.)
Date:1839 - 1864
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Detroit Publishing Company
Chiefly scenes in U.S. and Latin America, including landscapes, cityscapes, historic sites, architecture, vessels, industry, etc. (About 28,200 glass negatives, glass transparencies, and color photomechanical prints.)
Date:1885 - 1930
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Drawings (Documentary)
Primarily eyewitness sketches of Civil War scenes and events, including military personnel, battles, civilian activities, and landscapes. Also includes portraits, and American landscapes and structures from earlier periods. (4,917 drawings.)
Date:1783 - 1865
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Drawings (Master)
Finished works and sketches or preparatory drawings for printmaking by artists of many nationalities. Includes several dozen drawings from the 15th to 18th centuries, as well as drawings by James McNeill Whistler and many by Joseph Pennell. (About 5,000 drawings; described in about 3,800 catalog records.)
Date:1830 - 1930
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Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
Photos documenting rural and urban conditions and lifestyles in the U.S. and its territories; a few in Canada. Includes negatives the FSA/OWI did not print, many of which lack identifying information. (About 175,000 photographs: about 171,000 negatives (includes all FSA, OWI, and OEM negatives: LC-USF33; LC-USF34; LC-USW3; LC-USE6) and some photographic prints.)
Date:1935 - 1945
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Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs
U.S., Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands scenes showing work and home life, culture, and war industry. (About 1,600 color transparencies.)
Date:1939 - 1944
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Fenton Crimean War Photographs
Views of participants, landscapes and equipment. (263 photographs by Roger Fenton.)
Date:1855 - 1855
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Fine Prints
Relief, intaglio, and planographic prints, and other print media by artists and printmakers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and Asia. (About 12,000 prints; selection from full collection; records being added.)
Date:1450 - 1997
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Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915
Primarily woodcuts depicting actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, English and European visitors. (About 2,600 prints and 60 drawings; selection from full holdings.)
Date:1688 - 1915
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Genthe Collection
Includes studio portraits, dancers, San Francisco Chinatown scenes, and travel photos in the U.S. and abroad. (About 15,600 negatives and 1,200 autochromes, lantern slides and transparencies by Arnold Genthe.)
Date:1896 - 1942
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Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs
350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. (350.)
Date:1860 - 1945
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Goldstein Foundation Collection--Prints and Drawings
The Goldstein Collection focuses on working people, American industry, and political issues. Art work by social realists, women, African Americans, and Mexicans is well represented. (About 3,600 prints, drawings, books, and photos.)
Date:1880 - 1960
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Gottscho-Schleisner Collection
Northeastern U.S. and Florida, emphasizing architecture. (About 29,000 negatives and slides.)
Date:1935 - 1955
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Grabill Collection
Photographs by John C. H. Grabill of frontier life in South Dakota and Wyoming, including scenes of railroad construction, cowboys and miners, and the interactions between Native Americans and U.S. officials. (190 photographic prints.)
Date:1888 - 1892
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Groups of Images (LOTs)
Primarily records for LOTs: groups of images, most of which are requested using call slips. Examples: groups of images relating to Native Americans, groups of stereographs on specific themes or by particular publishers, groups of images from the records of the NAACP. (About 12,900 groups of prints, photographs, and drawings; records being added.)
Date:1800 - 1960
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Guide Records
Collection overviews. (120 records)
Date:1839 - 1864
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Harris & Ewing Collection
Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. (About 25,600 negatives.)
Date:1905 - 1945
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Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive
Architecture and architectural renovation projects in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States, as well as political figures, and people in the U.S. (2,500 negatives and transparencies; about 500 catalog records; records being added.)
Date:1980 - 2009
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Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
Measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for structures and sites dating from the 17th-20th centuries in the U.S. and its territories. (Documentation for more than 43,000 sites and structures; records being added.)
Date:1930 - 2010
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Horydczak Collection
U.S., especially Washington, D.C., showing architecture and daily life. (About 14,000 negatives.)
Date:1923 - 1959
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Johnston (Frances Benjamin) Collection
Photos produced and gathered by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the course of her career as a photojournalist, portrait and architectural photographer. Consists primarily of photos in the Johnston collection for which copy photos have been produced. (About 1,700 photographs; selection from full collection; records being added.)
Date:1850 - 1949
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Korab Collection
Balthazar Korab's photographs of 19 buildings designed by architect Eero Saarinen. (760 color and b&w photographs.)
Date:1937 - 2000
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Lamb Studios Archive
Preparatory and study sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture designed by J. & R. Lamb Studios. (About 2,500 drawings.)
Date:1869 - 1990
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Lawrence & Houseworth Collection
Stereographic halves from the series published as Gems of California Scenery showing major settlements, boom towns, placer and hydraulic mining operations, shipping and transportation routes, and scenic sites in northern California and western Nevada. (About 900 photographic prints.)
Date:1862 - 1867
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Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
Close to 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. (700.)
Date:1860 - 1865
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Lomax Collection
Snapshots documenting sound recording expeditions carried out by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax for the Archive of American Folk Song, including African American and Latino musicians, singers, and dancers, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas. (About 400 photographs.)
Date:1934 - 1950
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Look Collection
U.S. and international lifestyles, celebrities, and events, made for use in LOOK magazine. (3.9 million photographs, negatives, and color transparencies; about 10,000 catalog records.)
Date:1951 - 1971
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Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection
Images made by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor, the Matson Photo Service, illustrating Middle East culture, history, and political events including people and locations in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip), Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey. (Over 23,000 negatives, transperencies and photographic prints.)
Date:1898 - 1946
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Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
Most are items for which copy photography has been requested. (About 79,400 prints, photographs, and drawings cataloged since 1989--successor to Biographical and Subject card indexes; records being added.)
Date:1500 - 1980
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National Child Labor Committee Collection
Photographs, primarily by Lewis Hine, focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions, and educational settings. (About 5,100 photographs.)
Date:1908 - 1924
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National Photo Company Collection
Photos assembled by Herbert French, who supplied photographs of news events in Washington, D.C., to subscribers. Features portraits of presidents and celebrities and scenes of social life. Includes a growing proportion of the original negatives in the National Photo Company Collection as well as some photographic prints for which copy photos have been produced. (About 35,000 photographs; all negatives and a selection of photographic prints; records being added.)
Date:1850 - 1945
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Panoramic Photographs
U.S. and foreign sites, showing cities and towns, as well as events, industries, and group portraits (About 4,200 photographs.)
Date:1880 - 1930
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PH Filing Series Photographs
Selected individual photographic prints of great aesthetic, technical, or historic importance and similarly significant sets of unbound prints in published or unpublished portfolios. (More than 3,200 photographic prints and photographic portfolios.)
Date:1841 - 2001
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Photochrom Prints
People, architecture and sites in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. (About 6,500 items.)
Date:1890 - 1905
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Popular Graphic Arts
Prints and illustrated broadsides of historical, graphic and/or documentary importance produced in the U.S. and abroad. (About 13,000 prints.)
Date:1600 - 1943
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Posters: Artist Posters
Posters notable for their design by artists (some unidentified) from all countries. Includes all subjects (e.g., documentary posters, travel and transportation, political propaganda, etc.). (About 3,100 posters selected from the Artist Poster filing series; records being added.)
Date:1840 - 2010
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Posters: Performing Arts Posters
Posters from three collections: Theatrical Poster Collection (ca. 1,775 posters); Minstrel Poster Collection (ca. 175 posters); and Magic Poster Collection (ca. 150 posters). (About 2,100 posters.)
Date:1840 - 1936
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Posters: Spanish Civil War Posters
Posters sponsored by Republican and anti-Republican groups, trade unions, Catalonian nationalists, and international factions, on themes relating to the causes, conduct, and consequences of the civil war. (124 posters.)
Date:1936 - 1939
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Posters: World War I Posters
American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and other posters supporting the war effort. (Note: Some posters will also be retrieved when searching Posters: Artist Posters). (About 1,900 posters.)
Date:1914 - 1920
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Posters: WPA Posters
Posters produced by various branches of the WPA (Work Projects Administration) to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. (About 900 posters.)
Date:1936 - 1943
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Posters: Yanker Poster Collection
Political, propaganda and social issue posters, handbills, and a few bumper stickers, produced in the U.S. and about 50 other countries. (About 3,500 items.)
Date:1927 - 1980
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Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
Photographic survey of the Russian Empire, showing people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, water and railway transportation routes, villages and cities. (About 1,900 glass plate negatives by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii using three-part color separation technique and approximately 2,400 prints mounted in fourteen albums.)
Date:1905 - 1915
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Sikkim Photos (Kandell Collection)
This selection of images from the Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs portrays the people and places of a kingdom high in the Himalaya Mountains. (About 250 color slides and 50 b&w prints.)
Date:1965 - 1979
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Stereograph Cards
Stereo card photographs, featuring sites around the world and popular topics such as expositions, industry, disasters, and portraits of presidents. Consists of individual stereos from the division's stereo self-indexing files and groups (LOTs) for which an online record exists, usually because a copy photo or digital file showing half or all of the stereo has been produced. (About 8,300 stereographs; selection from full collection; records being added.)
Date:1860 - 1945
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Thesaurus For Graphic Materials
Subject and genre terms used in many Prints & Photographs Division records, along with cross-references. (About 7,600 terms.)
Date:2010 - 2010
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Tissandier Collection
Pictures documenting the early history of aeronautics, with an emphasis on balloon flight. (About 420 prints, drawings and photographs; selection from full collection.)
Date:1773 - 1909
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Van Vechten Collection
Includes portraits of celebrities, especially artists, entertainers, and authors, including African Americans active in these fields. (About 1,400 photographs by Carl Van Vechten.)
Date:1932 - 1964
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World's Transportation Commission
Asia, Australia, and Oceania, showing scenes and sites, with an emphasis on transportation systems. (584 lantern slides and 297 photographic prints.)
Date:1894 - 1896
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Wright Brothers Negatives
Photos, mostly taken by the Wright brothers to document their new flying machines, including views of their laboratory, engines, models, experimental planes, runways, flights, accidents, as well as portraits, buildings and landscapes. (303 negatives.)
Date:1897 - 1928
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