Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
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Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
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Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
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Library of Congress (Washington, DC) Prints and Photographs Division
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Library of Congress (Washington, DC) Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress. Division of Prints
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Library of Congress. Division of Prints
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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P&P
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Department of Graphic Arts
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Department of Graphic Arts
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The Prints and Photographs Division (P&P), formally established in 1897 as the Department of Graphic Arts, was founded upon a rich reserve of prints, drawings, and photographs assembled in the 19th century through gift, purchase, and transfer from other government agencies. Its core of early American holdings, in fact, consisted of the original, copyrighted prints and photographs transferred from the U.S. District Courts and (later) the Copyright Office.
Early conceived as a department devoted to the fine arts, P&P has come to assume a leading role in the visual documentation of politics, society, and daily culture as well. Today its collections form the most comprehensive pictorial record of the history of the U.S., the lives, concerns, and achievements of its people, and of its place in the larger world.
Images in P&P support the vast range of scholarly resources in the Library, including the history of science, the arts and literature of all countries, as well as the geographically focused research collections in African and Latin American area studies and the cultures of Asia and the Middle East.
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