The Library of Congress joined the Flickr network last week as part of a campaign to make LOC materials more accessible. Two groups of photos were added to the new LOC account, 1600 color images of the 1930s-40s and 1500 images of news in the 1910s.

As you know the LOC is the national library for the United States. It is located in Washington DC and has a collection of over 130 million items, including 14 million images. (BTY- the LOC is also the world’s largest library.)

The images are absolutely amazing. Viewers have been adding their own tags and posting comments, many factual, about the images. The LOC expects to gather more descriptions and to learn more about their own collections by sharing the images with millions of people around the world.

View LOC on Flickr here
View the LOC Blog here

Image Source: The Library Of Congress