Introduction

The archive contains thumbnails of photographs of Lawrence, photographs taken by him, and a selection of other images related to his life. 

The purpose of the archive is to provide researchers with information about photographs that are known to exist. We are not a photographic agency. We cannot supply copies of these photographs or authorise their reproduction in any place or form. The low-resolution thumbnails here are intended for identification only.

We have given each photograph our own reference number, but photographic libraries and other such sources are not likely to recognise these. We have quoted the owners' negative numbers where we know them.

Apart from photographic agencies, three major sources of Lawrence-related  photographs are:

The National Portrait Gallery, London

The T.E. Lawrence Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

The Imperial War Museum, London 

Further photographs will be added, and additional information including:

1. publications containing the photographs.

2. the size in mm of the largest published reproduction listed (as an indication of quality).

3. sources for photographic prints.

The archive is in four chronological sections, some of which have sub-sections. 

A large and representative sample of the archive can be viewed by browsing through each section, starting at the Contents List (click on an image to see the next). However, additional photographs are accessible only from the Thumbnail Catalogues. There are links to the section contents pages and thumbnail catalogues at the head of most pages.