Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Celebrates One Million Images Online

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The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division is celebrating a new
landmark: one million images from its collections are now available in
digital form online.

The millionth image, appropriately, suggests the wealth of insights the
Division's collections offer about both historical subjects and the
processes of making images.  The photograph depicts Washington Senators
baseball player Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer using a camera during a visit
to play the New York Highlanders in April 1911.  (The image can be seen at:
<  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09131 >).  It is from one of the
Division's strong photojournalism collections, the George Grantham Bain
Collection-an archive of more than 50,000 photographs from the first
syndicated photo news service in the U.S.  More than half of the images in
that collection are now available online. (For more information on the Bain
Collection, see < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ggbainhtml/ggbainabt.html >)

Digital images from the Prints & Photographs Division are available through
the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) <
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html >.  The catalog provides access
through group or item records to about 65% of the Division's holdings, a
portion of which are accompanied by digital images.  The records represent
the variety of materials held in the nearly 14 million items in the
Division's collections.  In addition to photographs, these include fine and
popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering
drawings. The collections are international in scope and are particularly
rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United
States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

In addition to the growing pool of digitized images available through PPOC,
recently added records make it possible to search several categories of
material more comprehensively and to expand searches in new ways:

- American fine prints: Almost 10,000 American fine prints by more than
1,200 different artists now have online records in PPOC containing
information compiled in the 1960s for the book American Prints in the
Library of Congress by Karen Beall. About 4% have digital images for online
viewing.  To search the fine prints, 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 "Fine Prints."

- PH Filing Series photographs: More than 2,500 selected individual
photographic prints of special aesthetic, technical, or historic importance
and similarly significant sets of unbound prints in published or unpublished
portfolios, ca. 1841-2001. About 30% have digital images for online viewing.
 For more information, see < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/phhtml/phabt.html >

- Third Reich Collection:  More than 450 presentation albums, scrapbooks and
groups of photographs related to the Third Reich in Germany (1933-1945)
described through group records, with some links to selected digitized
items. Images in the collection portray Nazi leaders; political events after
World War I and the rise of the Nazi Party; the 1936 Olympics; World War II
scenes; art and architecture; and industries. To search for these materials,
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 type into the search blank "Third Reich
Collection."

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- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials in PPOC: The standardized subject, genre,
and image process terms and their cross-references have been integrated into
the online catalog. Links enable researchers to look up related terms or to
look for pictures indexed with the term, offering a new means for exploring
topics and types of images represented in Prints & Photographs Division
collections.  To search or view the thesaurus terms, 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 "Thesaurus for Graphic Materials."

For information on new collections and  recent and upcoming activities 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 the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog or the
holdings and services of the Prints and Photographs Division, consult our
Ask a Librarian service: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-print.html>.

>>>>>>>>>

Laura Gottesman
Reference Librarian
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress

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