The Community Relations Office of the Department of Transportation created an index to their official photographs. The office assigned a job number to each set of photographs taken or adopted by the office as official photographs. The job number provides access to all photographic material in the official photographs collection. Job numbers include a three-part number series. For each job number the index minimally identifies the subject of the photos and the date or dates on which they were taken.

• Department of Transportation Official Photograph Index, 1965-1998

The photographs that indexed here number in the hundreds of thousands–a true treasure unexpectedly found within government records. Find an interesting job in the index? Visit the Research Center to access the photographs from some of these series:

• Official Photographs, 1964-1998 (Series 24289)
• Official photographs: Thistle disaster documentation, 1983-1984.
• Subject Photographs, 1957-1970, 1979.