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Macin Salba, lithographer. Agentur Bureau [1888?] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Other Title: A. Pénztár. Summary: Print shows men and women entering travel agency booking ocean passage to America; men at desk receiving money and stamping tickets.
The Library's Prints and Photographs Division is the repository for a collection of prints, photographs, and other visual materials that includes hundreds of prints and photographs on and about Hungarians, including several dozens of items related to Hungarian Americans. Many of these items have been digitized and are available to researchers in the Prints and Photographs online catalog (PPOC). The original materials are available to researchers in the Library's Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
Many publicly available photographs of Hungarian Americans, their communities, churches, schools, and events that have been photographed in recent years can be found online.
The memories of earlier generations are preserved in many publications, a number of which are listed further down on this page.
Below is a selection of images available on the Library of Congress website. Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.
This guide presents many of the images from the Library's collections, but there are more to discover. For more digitized images search the Library of Congress homepage using the search box in the upper right corner and limit by Photos, Prints, Drawings. Many images are downloadable in different file sizes.
The Library also has images that are not yet digitized, for example: 12 portraits of Hungarian Americans taken between 1930-1939, a wood engraving of a Hungarian-American farm, and a set of 134 photographic prints (contact sheets) of Hungarian refugees from December 1956.
Last but not least, photographs inside published books and journals are the richest source in the Library of Congress of visual materials for Hungarian Americans. It is not possible to list all of the photographs that appear in relevant publications, but we made an effort to mention in the descriptions of items presented in this guide if the works contained illustrations. Below we list a few books that contain many images. Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog, and when they are available digitally, links are provided. This list is arranged in alphabetical order by title.