Selections from the Evening Star Photo Collection

Digital Collection

Identifier: Star

Staff Only

Selections from the Evening Star Photo Collection in Dig DC

Dates

Creation: 1930 ca. - 1980 ca.

Creator

Evening Star Newspaper Co.. Washington Star, The (Organization)

Summary

Please note: Selections from the Evening Star Photograph Collection contains images of violence, including police brutality. We welcome your feedback if you encounter language or images in The People's Archive that you find offensive or harmful. Please email us at peoples.archive@dc.gov or call The People's Archive reference desk at 202-727-1213.

The Evening Star Photograph Collection is the photo archive of The Evening 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.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions to accessing this digital collection.

Conditions Governing Use

The Washington Post purchased the physical assets of the Washington Star newspaper when it closed in 1981. In 1982, the Post donated photographs, clippings and papers of the Star to the D.C. Public Library. The Post retained copyright to photographs taken by Star photographers and licensed the Library to grant permissions and sell reproductions to library users.

The D.C. Public Library does not have the rights and cannot grant permission for photos in the collection taken by wire services or other photographers.

Biographical / Historical

The Star was the newspaper of record in D.C. from the late 19th through the mid-20th century, though it was eventually superseded and then purchased by The Washington Post.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.