Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives
The ICFA support scholarship in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies by acquiring, organizing, preserving, cataloging, and providing access to images in a variety of media, documentation of archaeological surveys and excavations, both textual and visual, and papers of noteworthy scholars in the three disciplines.
ICFA also houses the Index of Christian Art.
Authorization to use the ICFA should be requested using the same form used to request Reader status. Please email the completed form. Approval to use the ICFA does not confer automatic authorization to use the book and journal collections. Those wishing to use the book collections as well must schedule an orientation appointment with the appropriate subject librarian before access is granted. Please indicate this need on your application form.
The image collections and fieldwork archives are open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am–12:00 and 1:00 pm–5:00 pm.
For further information, please contact Günder Varinlioğlu, Byzantine Assistant Curator, Image Collections & Fieldwork Archives, or call 202-339-6973.