Images of Library of Congress
Explore America's library from your iPhone and iPad.
Images of Library of Congress opens up the collections of the Library of Congress: photographs, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, books, sheet music, historic films and early sound recordings. It began as an app for the Library's images. The Library has so much more to offer, so now the app does too.
Made for students, teachers, historians, genealogists, and anyone who loves Americana and history.
FEATURED EVERY DAY
• A new free-to-use Picture of the Day
• The Library of Congress's own featured stories, films and collections
• Over 100 curated "Free to Use and Reuse" sets, from lighthouses to baseball cards
SEARCH EVERYTHING
• Search across every format, or just photos, maps, audio, film and more
• Filter by date, place, subject, language and collection
• Thumbnails load fast; full-resolution images load when you need them
• Items that aren't online show how to request them from a reading room
THE COLLECTOR
• Drag anything with a grip handle into the Collector, or tap Collect
• Every collected item saves the highest-resolution image and the Library's full record
• Organize with folders and seven color tags you can name
• Syncs privately with iCloud across your devices and works offline
BUILT FOR SCHOOL
• "How You Can Use This" explains each item's rights in plain language, alongside the Library's official statement and credit line
• One-tap MLA 9 citations with the access date, copied with the italic title intact
• The Library's MLA, APA and Chicago citations too
• Print any image, or a whole folder, with its citation underneath
WATCH, LISTEN AND READ
• Historic films play full screen with Picture in Picture, and keep playing when you rotate
• Listen to early jazz, oral histories and poetry readings
• Read digitized books and documents as PDFs
SAVE IMAGES AND FILMS
• Download full-resolution images, archival TIFF scans and historic films
• Save to iCloud Drive or choose any location; images carry their title, creator, rights and citation
DESIGNED FOR iPHONE AND iPAD
• A sidebar for every format on iPad, side-by-side detail views and a three-column Collection
• Drag and drop throughout, including into Keynote, Pages, Notes and Freeform
• Keyboard shortcuts on iPad
• A Picture of the Day widget for your Home Screen and Lock Screen
Free, with no ads, no accounts and no tracking.
Images of Library of Congress uses the public loc.gov API. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Library of Congress.