Archive guide · US
Library of Congress — Prints & Photographs
searched live by Provara
What it holds
1.2M+ photographs, prints and drawings: portraits, studio and news photography, places, military, FSA/OWI
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Library of Congress
- Licence for use here
- Per item: only 'No known restrictions on publication' items are shown
- Attribution
- Cite 'Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division' with the item link
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.loc.gov/apis/json-and-yaml/
How to search it in Provara
- Historical photographs: ask Provara for a photograph of a place or an event your family was part of.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Historical photographs — Portraits, places and events held by libraries and archives, free to view and often free to reuse.
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