Drawing Of Space Shuttle And Satellites NAID: 17473736
We’re pleased to announce that 256,444 photographs from NASA’s Glenn Research Center have recently been added to the National Archives Catalog. The photos document facilities, personnel, and aeronautic and space technology development at the Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, Ohio and at Plum Brook Station1 in Sandusky, Ohio. Also included are publicity photos, as well as images documenting various types of accidents. The photographs in this series were taken between 1943 and 2004; as such, many of the photos are credited to NASA in addition to its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
The images in the catalog were scanned by NASA from original prints and negatives. The analog originals and the digital surrogates were transferred to the National Archives Still Picture Branch in 2014 and 2019. In total there are 291,444 individual photographs available in the NARA catalog within 255-GRC: Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel, and there are approximately 13,000 more scans that will be added soon.
There are three ways to search the images in 255-GRC.
Click on the title of the file unit/year you are interested in
From the file unit page, click on “Search within this file unit” at the top of the page (below the NAID)
Using our item-level Excel spreadsheet, you can keyword search and review all 256,444 item descriptions that were added to the catalog in 2024. This spreadsheet does not include the 34,956 items that were added to the catalog prior to 2024.
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