Title:Selections from the Washington Star Photo Collection
Type:Photographs
Created:1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
Abstract:The Washington Star Photograph Collection is the photo archive of The Washington Star newspaper, including both images that were and were not published in the newspaper. The digital collection includes photographs documenting D.C. in the days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Star was the newspaper of record in D.C. from the late 19th through the mid-20th century, though it was eventually superseded and then purchased by The Washington Post. The newspaper's photograph archive includes approximately 1.3 million photographs from the mid-1930s to 1981, most of which were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection has been kept together intact, therefore national and international images can be found as well as local D.C.