Library of Congress curators and specialists have created research guides that highlight the many diverse and useful image collections available to researchers. Below are selected highlights, you can also study the complete list for even more ideas.
The galleries in this guide include images from the last twenty years of Lincoln's life. Prints and Photographs Division staff have selected the images based on frequent requests, with a focus on those with no known restrictions.
Camilo J. Vergara has photographed America’s cities since the 1970s. This guide will introduce you to his photos of racially-segregated African American communities—images that bear witness to discrimination, hardship, perseverance, ingenuity and pride.
A set of essays about the lives and wartime experiences of particular Civil War soldiers using photographic portraits from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.
Discover more about an iconic image from the Farm Security Administration Collection. This guide discusses photographer Dorothea Lange's work, provides other views of Florence Owens Thompson (the Migrant Mother), and lists additional resources.
From about 1915-1970, millions of African Americans moved from southern, primarily rural areas of the U.S. to urban areas in the north and west. This guide provides strategies for finding related visual resources.
This guide provides an overview of military photographs from the Crimean War to the present. Most images show the American armed forces from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s.
An overview of Prints & Photographs Division visual resources, including photographs, drawings, engravings, lithographs, posters, and architectural drawings, related to North American indigenous communities. Includes search strategies and tips.
This research guide provides access to historic photographic and film documentation, as well as related print and electronic resources, illustrating the 20th century efforts to transform Puerto Rico from a plantation to an industrial economy.
The galleries in this guide include portraits of suffragists and images about the women's suffrage movement in the U.S., from the late 19th century through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, from the Prints & Photographs Division.