Welcome to RAO's online RGANTD Photo Catalogue.
This catalogue includes descriptions of images and photos about space and technology.
3,000 records are available for immediate searching, with production quality versions available.

Please fill out the licensing form or call 1-877-304-5495 for assistance with in-depth research of the Archive's film collection.

Search of documentary photographs

To search, just fill out the search fields, and click the "Search" button.

Search is not case-sensitive. You can enter query words in upper-case, lower-case or a combination of the two.
The "Archival number" is thefastest way to find a specific image, if you have it.

In "Keywords" you may specify the expressions consisting of one or more words.
In the field "Date of shooting" the year should be given as four numerals.
In "Heading" drop menu, choose a catagory from the list.

View and Select Results

If there are more than 500 results, you will get a message to refine your search, but it will show the first 500. To view search results you can:
point the link to the document in the list of found entries

mark several documents by clicking the checkboxes

"Select the first 20" button -

then press Browse..
Click the "Select the next 20" button to view the results 20 at a time.

Browse the entire photo collection

After clicking the "Collection" button, you can browse the entire catalog. Just use the first, forward, back and last buttons.

To return to Search Mode press the Search button.

You can click on the photos to see a larger version in a popup window.

Advanced Search Rules
You can use the wild card operator "*" at the end of a query word.
Logical search operators "AND, OR, NOT" can be used in a field. If you enter a multiple-word value in a query field, operator AND is used by default.
Use "NOT" operator before the word which should not be in the text. "NOT" operator can't be used before the first word in a query field.
When you enter the value you can use more then one type of operators: words or phrases, containing operators "AND" or "NOT", could be combined by operator "OR".
Operator "AND" is used between fields in the query.

Tips and links

If you open the licensing form in a separate window, you can copy/paste your search results as you work - make sure to get the Archive Number!

In the future, we will introduce translation tools within RAO. Until we do, here are some links to free online translators you can use to translate search terms and results.
Translation software is still in early stages, but very useful for short phrases and descriptions of archive results!
IM Translator

Systran

Promt Online Translator