@Jeruba – Worldcat is a site which consolidates library catalogs from towns, counties, universities, institutions and allows you to search for books that might not be in your home town library.
I have generally used it in genealogical research: sometimes you will find that there might be only two libraries with a copy of a particular book and you MIGHT get it loaned to you through interlibrary loan.
I am fortunate in that my local library here in Wilmington allows internet access to inter-library loan and will attempt to obtain a book for me without my having to go to our main library branch downtown. In one case, I searched on my wife’s home town in upstate New York, found a history of her high school and the associated parish and was able to order the book. I got a picture of her grandparents that no one else had seen. Otherwise it was a pretty boring book but for $2.00 it’s a no brainer.
If you are looking for pictures, call the newspaper where you saw them. If not try the Bettman archive which I think is online.
In my case of working with the library of congress, it came about this way.
In 1964 my picture was taken as publicity for the sixth National Boy Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge PA. I lived in New York and they took us to a scout camp and we prepared recipes that would used by the various participants.
So there was a newspaper photo of me chopping onions in my scout umiform at the age of 15 and I wanted a copy. I thought my Dad had a copy but when he died we could not find a copy in his apartment. The newspaper was the NY Herald Tribune which stopped publishing in 1967.
Worldcat showed that the LOC had microfilm copies of 1964 and a very helpful librarian actually got the reel, found the article, printed it and sent it to me by snail mail, at no charge.
Also through Interlibrary loan, Duke University sent us the actual microfilm reel (us being my library) and I was able to print a very poor copy.
Again I live in North Carolina, not Washington DC and was able to contact the library of congress without any trouble over the internet.
@La Chica gomela.—- the public libraries in San Francisco must have this newspaper archived. Or, there is a newspaper morgue somewhere for this publication.
And strange as it may seem, the New York Public Library has huge on line resources and indices to their other holdings that are not available on line. www.nypl.org
If Jeruba could be more specific then I would have some other suggestions, however I write this on 3/11 at 8pm and tomorrow I will have surgery on my hand and will not be on line for at least a week or maybe reading but not typing so get it to me in a hurry,
SRM