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  • Flickr: The Library of Congress Photostream

    Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress. We invite your tags and comments! Identifying information is also appreciated--many of our old photos came to us with very little description. What is the Library of Congress? We serve as the national library for the United States, based in... more

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  • Rated by mouesh on Jun 23, 12:52pm

    The Library of Congress has a Flikr stream of over 3000 photos dating back from the beginning of the 1900's ! Here's some pictures of Sufragettes I picked from the excellent "Women Striving Forward" set.

  • Rated by groovequestor on Jan 14 2009, 5:58pm

    Unbelievable photos from the past. Like a doorway to 120 years ago!

  • Reviewed by NerdGrrl on Jan 07 2009, 3:53pm

    Yep, it's official, the Library of Congress has a Flickr page... can't wait til they re-write the Constitution in text speak. "We teh peeps of the USA, idk, freedom n stuff"

  • Rated by Shitao on Sep 08 2008, 6:01am

    Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress. We invite your tags and comments! Identifying information is also appreciated--many of our old photos came to us with very little description. What is the Library of Congress? We serve as the national library for the United States, based in Washington, DC. With more than 134 million items preserved on some 530 miles of bookshelves, we're also the world's largest library. In addition to books, we have photos, maps, databases, movies, sound recordings, sheet music, manuscripts, and information in many other formats. Millions of items are online, and the full array of collections is available in DC, right across from the U.S. Capitol building What are photographs doing in a library? We've been acquiring photos since the mid-1800s when photography was the hot new technology. Because images represent life and the world so vividly, people have long enjoyed exploring our visual collections. Looking at pictures opens new windows to understanding both the past and the present. Favorite photos are often incorporated in books, TV shows, homework assignments, scholarly articles, family histories, and much more. The Prints & Photographs Division takes care of 14 million of the Library's pictures and features more than 1 million through online catalogs. Offering historical photo collections through Flickr is a welcome opportunity to share some of our most popular images more widely.

  • Rated by Pontifex-Rex on Apr 28 2008, 9:37pm

    This is the Library of Congress Flickr photostream. A wealth of non-copyrighted images.

  • Rated by invisableman on Mar 31 2008, 6:15am

    The Library of Congress' photos Beautiful photos of the history of this country.