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This section provides pointers to materials and information that help to explore and understand the Documentary Drawings and related materials.
Collections that have overlapping content with the Documentary Drawings collections or that provide resources for exploring the collections are listed below.
The listing below includes collections with 150 or more items, organized by topic or genre, For additional items, consult the online catalog, searching by artist, media (e.g. watercolor drawings), or intent (e.g., courtroom sketches). Collections with call numbers that include the word Unprocessed may require advance arrangements to view (see: "Access to Unprocessed Materials").
For guides to related categories of materials, such as illustration drawings, see the Published Sources <link> page.
A guide to the Prints & Photographs Division's strong collection of courtroom drawings is planned. Many of the collections and items can be retrieved in the online catalog by searching the term courtroom sketches. The resource below provides a helpful introduction.
There are documentary drawings in museums, historical societies, universities, private and government libraries throughout the United States. In addition, some of are in private hands. Below is a small selection of repositories who possess collections that strongly relate to the collections of the Library of Congress.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available. These resources may assist in researching and exploring the context of the images found in the Documentary Drawings collections and related Prints & Photographs Division collections. The resources are grouped in the following sections:
Leslie's Illustrated Civil War by M. & M. Karolik collection of American water colors & drawings, 1800-1875 by The Civil War; a centennial exhibition of eyewitness drawings by 
Conrad Wise Chapman by 
The Visible Confederacy by 
Images from the Storm by A Civil War artist at the front; Edwin Forbes' Life studies of the Great Army by The Army Sketch Book, An Artist's Story of the War by Life studies of the great army. A historical work of art, in copper-plate etching, containing forty plates, illustrating the life of the Union Armies during the late Rebellion by Thirty years after : an artist's memoir of the Civil War by The Civil War sketches of Charles Gulager, 1862-1864 by The Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, United States Navy by 
Civil War Sketch Book by Facing history : the Black image in American art, 1710-1940 by 182 Original Civil War Drawings by Edwin Forbes by 
Blood Shed in This War by The image of war : the pictorial reporting of the American Civil War by Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63 by 
Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks by 
Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press by 
The Art of Justice by 
Sketching Guantanamo by The Illustrated Courtroom by Indian art of Mexico and Central America by 
Mexico South by Miguel Covarrubias en México y San Francisco : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Museo Nacional de Antropología, julio-septiembre 2007 by Miguel Covarrubias and Bali by 
Miguel Covarrubias : artista y explorador by Miguel Covarrubias : sketches Bali-Shanghai by 
The Library of Congress by Library of Congress,its architecture and decoration by Two centuries of silhouettes: celebrities in profile by Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-44 by My war: a love story in letters and drawings / by 
The Trail of the Wild Flowers Part I by 
