National Photo Company collection

Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift and purchase, from Herbert E. French; 1947.

Processing History

The National Photo Company collection was processed by Prints and Photographs staff. This finding aid contains unverified data from old container lists transcribed by Gillian Mahoney, Tori Cox, Nick Pernot, Michelle An, and Erin Ebert in 2020. Finding aid encoded by Emma Esperon in 2021. Not all of the groups of material are described at the same level of detail.

Additional materials that form the National Photo Company collection not included in this finding aid is the Photo album of U.S. Capitol Interiors (Call No.: Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 1037). For more information about service of these additional materials, search our Online Catalog by call number.

Related Material

Additional materials that include photographs created by the National Photo Company are described in our Online Catalog:

• LOT 5544 (F): Single portraits, 1890-1930(?), mainly small clear copy photographs, of women active in the women's suffrage movement and as members of the National League of Women Voters
• LOT 7077 (F) (H): Washington, D.C., ca. 1860-1918
• LOT 6650 (H): News photographs, political cartoons, studio portraits, etc. ca. 1890-1950
• LOT 8848 (F): Ceremonies at the Lafayette Monument in Washington, D.C.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, e.g., [LC-F82-1234].

Online Content

To see already digitized images from this collection, search our Online Catalog by call number or descriptive words.

Alternate Formats

Negatives are generally not served to researchers and are stored offsite. Generally a print of each image is available in the collection. The negatives are arranged into filing series by media type and size. Within each filing series negatives are arranged in original negative number order which, for the most part, is chronological. Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives cannot be served to the public.

*Interpositive transparencies (code T) and duplicate negatives (code 01 or T01) were largely created as preservation copies by the Library of Congress Duplication Services Division and/or a Library contract with Chicago Albumen Works.