Highlights from our Still Picture Branch Holdings at the National Archives at College Park

The Still Picture Branch at the National Archives at College Park preserves and provides access to historically valuable photographs and graphic materials created by the federal government. The holdings consist of traditional analog photography, born-digital photographs, digital surrogates, posters, and other graphic material. We invite you to explore a few highlights from our record holdings by following the links below. To learn more, visit our website at https://www.archives.gov/research/still-pictures.

Into the Jaws of Death

Photograph taken by Robert F. Sargent (U.S. Coast Guard) at D-Day Normandy Landing, June 6, 1944

The Tetons - Snake River

Photograph taken by Ansel Adams at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942

Young Woman at Civil Rights March on Washington, DC

Photograph of Edith Lee-Payne taken by Rowland Scherman, August 23, 1963

Flag Raising on Iwo Jima

Photograph taken at Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal, February 23, 1945

USS Arizona Burning

Photograph taken after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Apollo 11 Mission Image

Astronaut Edwin Aldrin walks near the Lunar Module, July 20, 1969

President Lincoln at Antietam

Photograph taken after the Battle of Antietam by Alexander Gardner, October 2, 1862

Frederick Douglass

Portrait taken ca. 1879

Young migratory mother, originally from Texas

Photograph taken by Dorothea Lange, April 11, 1940

We can do it!

Poster designed by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Company, 1942