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by Lisa Loder
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections 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.
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by category.
more than 14 million items. Paper finding aids, card catalogs, and browsing files of pictures available on site supplement descriptions in PPOC.
or a whole collection by name.
The selection of about 50 catalogs is representative rather than exhaustive.
• It is limited to sites that emphasize online catalogs and finding aids for pictorial collections.
• It highlights databases that cover historical and documentary images in general subject areas, rather than those that focus on a single topic.
• Most have more than 1,000 records and are predominately in the English language.
• Many (not all) include digital images.
•When catalogs include non-pictorial materials, the search screens make it obvious and easy to limit a query to still pictures.
More than 1.2 million digitized images:
In some cases only "thumbnail" images ("gif" images) will display to those searching outside the Library of Congress because of potential rights considerations, while on-site searchers have access to larger "jpeg" and "tiff" images, as well.
In some collections, only a portion of the images have so far been digitized.
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collections/