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Pictures and Photos at NARA of interest to Genealogists

Genealogists primarily search our holdings to find pictures of:

• Relatives who served in the military or worked for a civilian agency.  We have many portraits (generally the higher the rank the more likely there's a portrait), plus photos of individuals performing various activities.
• Old cities and towns or events their ancestors participated in.
• Subjects, like Navy Ships or Battles that ancestors might have been on or participated in 

What's Online for Genealogists?

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Gen. Martin T. McMahon and staff of six

In the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ Catalog

The Still Pictures Branch at the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ in College Park, Maryland,  has over 2 million scans or born-digital images now available in the .  The following series have been of especial interest to genealogists.

Select Lists

• Photographs of the American West, 1861--1912 [rev 1974]
   
• Pictures of Indians in the United States [rev. 1977]
   
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  Sacramento, California, about, 1855

  Pictures of African Americans During World War II (1993)
   
• Pictures of the American City [rev. 1977]
   
• Pictures of the Civil War [rev. 1981]
   
• Pictures of the Revolutionary War [rev. 1972]
   
• Pictures of United States Navy Ships, 1775--1941
   
• Pictures of World War II [1990]

Guides

Find Descriptive Materials about the Holdings:

• "Guide to the Holdings of the Still Picture Branch of the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡", compiled by Barbara Lewis Burger (1990), and the Index 
   
• Audiovisual Records in the ÍþÄá˹ÈËÓéÀÖ³¡ of the United States Relating to World War II, Reference Information Paper 70 (1992)