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Library of Congress IIIF Image Services

Library of Congress

Original source linkedPublic technical documentation and compatible collection images.

What this source shows

Library of Congress IIIF web service that returns images, cropped regions, resized or rotated versions, and image metadata from a standard URL. Rate limits apply.

Rights and reuse: Rights and access statements remain item-specific; cropping via API does not change rights.
Access: Public technical documentation and compatible collection images.

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Why it matters

A crop URL points to an exact region of a source image, so you can show precisely what you are citing from a Library of Congress item.

Where this series uses it

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