National Archives of the United States laid out in full

National Archives of the United States, a state organization with 80 years of history, laid out on the site Flickr.com part of its huge reserves of photographic artifacts from the history of North America. Remarkably, the pictures can be used without written permission of the file, since they are no longer covered by copyright.

Among the collections available to users - 220 pictures of classic American landscape photography Ansel Adams and a selection of photos by Matthew Brady, taken during the war between North and South.

The National Archives was established under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1934, but the meeting began parallel with the creation of the state. Each year, about 2-5 percent of valuable revenue to the archive are in the funds of the organization. By now in the collection of the National Archives contains approximately 25 million photographs, 20,000 sheets of graphics (like the lottery, and the unit), approximately 7.2 million maps, charts and architectural projects, more than 365,000 reels of film and 110,000 videotapes.

On the site you can view photos in high resolution





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