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Introduction - Related Resources

These resources may be helpful in learning more about newspaper photo morgues or in discovering related resources.

Related Resources

Prints & Photographs Division

The division has many photojournalism collections that include photographs made for publication in newspapers and magazines. Its one newspaper morgue (the archive of photographs assembled by a newspaper itself), the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, is listed in the entry for the Library of Congress in the District of Columbia section of this guide. Below are collections that include news photo services that distributed to newspapers, archives of specialized news publications, as well as personal collections by individuals who worked as news photographers.

George Grantham Bain Collection (summary & search)
This collection consists of the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. More than 41,000 images, primarily 1900s to mid-1920s, are available online.
Paul Berg Collection (catalog record)
Paul Berg worked as a photographer for the St. Louis, Missouri Post-Dispatch. Advance arrangements must be made to view this unprocessed collection.
Congressional Quarterly & Roll Call Photograph Collections (research guide)
Roll Call was founded in 1955 with the aspiration to be "The Newspaper of Capitol Hill" that covered things of interest to those who worked or lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The Roll Call photos mostly cover the years 1988 to 2000.
National Photo Company Collection (summary & search)
The National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily service to its subscribers. More than 39,000 photographs, primarily 1909-1932, are available online.
Visual materials from the Ernest Irving Lewis Papers (catalog record)
Lewis was a journalist, editor, and public official. Advance arrangements must be made to view this unprocessed material.

Elsewhere in the Library of Congress and Online

Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room
The reading room provides access to the holdings of the Serial & Government Publications Division, which maintains one of the most extensive newspaper collections in the world. It is exceptionally strong in US newspapers. Guides on many topics are available.
Newspaper Navigator: Photos
Search 1.56 million photos in historic newspapers using Newspaper Navigator.

ArchiveGrid External
This database offers records describing archival material from more than 1,400 archival institutions, helping researchers look for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies. Try searching for particular newspaper titles, or newspaper photographs.