The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division has added 116 photocrom travel views of the Netherlands from 100 years ago to our Flickr page, bringing the total number of photochroms on Flickr to 773.
Photochroms, published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, are prints that were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit …
Archive for the ‘Collections’ Category (43 posts)
A cartoon can be engaging and funny and tell a story without any audible sound at all; even newspaper cartoons of the 20th century featured characters such as Ferd’nand and The Little King, (external links) who went through their paces, frame-by-frame, with little or no dialogue to move the story along.
But sometimes, more is more, as Walt …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Collections, Exhibitions, Music, Uncategorized, film
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This guest post comes from Audrey Fischer of the Library’s Communications Office:
Generations of former kids who learned their ABCs on PBS will be celebrating today’s 40th anniversary of the show “Sesame Street.” (external link)
The Library’s been a fan right along! In April 2000, for example, when the Library of Congress celebrated its bicentennial, Big Bird …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Events, National Book Festival
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This feels a little like a birth announcement: The Library of Congress has launched its second official blog since the one you’re now reading took the blogosphere by storm in April 2007. (Hyperbole much?)
The Library’s Science, Technology and Business Division is an excellent addition to our growing social-media family. The very name of the division …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Curators, News, Technology, science
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(The following is a guest post by Patricio Padua of the Library’s Collections and Services Division, h/t to Bryan Cornell in the Recorded Sound Reading Room.)
Some years ago, a monk decked in an elegant black robe visited the Recorded Sound Reading Room in search of the music of his elders: Coptic Chant, which comes out …
Posted in: Collections, LC Web site, Music
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‘Tis the season to be frightened, and the Performing Arts Encyclopedia is full of ghastly tunes for the musical goblins in your life. We start with Jean Schwartz and William Jerome’s “The Ghost that Never Walked.” The team, best-known for the song “Chinatown my Chinatown,” put this 1904 number into the show “Piff! Paff! Pouf!” to tell the …
Posted in: Collections, Music
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There’s nothing quite like the sound of a fighter aircraft, overhead.
It can be thrilling — at an airshow, for example.
It can also be reassuring — the way it was, for many, in the early morning hours over the Washington, D.C. area for months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The Library of Congress has …
Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Photos
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