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arrangements must be made when patrons wish to
view more than 15 original items from the Division’s
collections (not including documentary photo-
graphs, which constitute the bulk of the Division’s
holdings); unprocessed and/or fragile material re-
quiring supervised handling or special preparation
for visits by classes or groups; or when the number
of images requested exceeds average use. Research-
ers sometimes have been frustrated by limitations
on access to descriptive information about photo-
graphic collections, largely attributable to the
Library’s chronic backlog of processing and catalo-
guing (which in turn has been criticized as the result
of bureaucratic mismanagement and delay), but the
Division’s willingness to negotiate physical access to
unprocessed materials has been exemplary and
much admired. Many repositories will not allow re-
search access until collection materials until proces-
sing has been completed. The policy of the Prints
and Photographs Division, whether official or un-
official, has been flexibility in working around these
limitations with researchers.
The Library does not grant or deny permission
for the reproduction of images from its collections.
While some may be unrestricted, e.g., when their
copyrights have expired and they have entered the
public domain, many others in the Prints and
Photographs Division clearly are covered by current
copyright restrictions; indeed, the very presence of
many photographs in the Library was occasioned
by their submission with copyright registrations.
Patrons are advised to be aware of the kinds of
rights and restrictions that might apply, such as
copyright, licensing agreements, trademark, donor
restrictions, privacy rights, and publicity rights.
Since the Library houses the U.S. Copyright Office,
its passive attitude toward copyright restrictions
and reluctance to vigorously enforce copyright
might seem odd, since other repositories frequently
refuse to provide copies of materials known to be
copyrighted. The Library’s attitude, however, is
that the burden of adherence to copyright and
other restrictions is the responsibility of the user,
not the repository, and is consistent with its gener-
ally very open policies.

DavidHaberstich

Seealso: Adams, Ansel; Archives; Delano, Jack;
Documentary Photography; Evans, Walker; Farm

Security Administration; Hine, Lewis; Ka ̈sebier, Ger-

trude; Lange, Dorothea; Lee, Russell; Look; Office of

War Information; Panoramic Photography; Shahn,

Ben; Stieglitz, Alfred; Stryker, Roy; Visual Anthro-

pology; War Photography; White, Clarence; Works

Projects Administration

Further Reading

Adams, Ansel.Born Free and Equal. Bishop, CA: Spotted

Dog Press, 2001.

America 1935–1946: The Photographs of the U.S. Depart-

ment of Agriculture, Farm Security Administration, and

the U.S. Office of War Information, Arranged by Region

and by Subject, Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey;

Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset House, 1980.

Cole, John Young.For Congress and the Nation: A Chron-

ological History of the Library of Congress. Washington:

Library of Congress, 1979.

———.Jefferson’s Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of

Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1993.

Collins, Kathleen.Washingtoniana: Photographs: Collec-

tions in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library

of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1989.

Conaway, James.America’s Library: The Story of the

Library of Congress, 1800–2000. Foreword by James

Billington; introduction by Edmund Morris., New

Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with

the Library of Congress, 2000.

Fern, Alan, and Milton Kaplan. ‘‘John Plumbe, Jr., and the

First Architectural Photographs of the Nation’s Capi-

tol.’’The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 31

(January 1979): 3–20.

Fern, Alan, Milton Kaplan, and the staff of the Prints and

Photographs Division.Viewpoints: A Selection from the

Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress; A Pic-

ture Book. Washington: Library of Congress, 1975.

Frissell, Toni.Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933–1967. Intro-

duction by George Plimpton; foreword by Sidney Fris-

sell Stafford. New York: Doubleday in association with

the Library of Congress, 1994.

Green, Shirley L. and Diane Hamilton.Pictorial Resources in

the Washington, D.C., Area. Washington: Library of Con-

gress, 1976.

Kusnerz, Peggy Ann.Picturing the Past: Photographs at the

Library of Congress, 1865–1954. Ph. D. dissertation.

University of Michigan, 1992, Ann Arbor, MI: UMI

Dissertation Services, 1994.

Melville, Annette.Special Collections in the Library of Con-

gress: A Selective Guide. Washington, DC: Library of

Congress, 1980.

Rohrbach, Peter T.Automation at the Library of Congress,

the First Twenty-five Years and Beyond. Washington:

Library of Congress, 1985.

Shaw, Renata V., compiler.A Century of Photographs,

1846–1946, Selected from the Collections of the Library

of Congress. Washington: The Library, 1980.

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