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Photochroms Give Us Holland’s Nice, Bright Colors

November 20th, 2009 by Matt Raymond

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 …

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Going Back, Waaay Back

October 1st, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin

(Ed. note: This post comes to us from Phil Michel, Digital Conversion Coordinator for the Prints & Photographs Division, and one of the authors of the new book Baseball Americana.)
While the baseball season winds down and the excitement of another World Series chase begins, we’re celebrating the national pastime with a new book, Baseball Americana: …

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Posted in: Collections, History, Photos, Preservation, Social Media, tags

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One of the Sounds of Freedom

September 14th, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin

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 …

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Posted in: Collections, Exhibitions, Photos

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Flickr Continues its European Tour

September 9th, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin

The Library of Congress’ popular site on Flickr now features a set of lovely, century-old photochrom images of buildings and scenery from Belgium.  Even if you don’t know your Flemings from your Walloons, these 108 pictures of places like Antwerp and Blankenberghe, Liege, Ghent and Louvain will transport you to times of yore.

Posted in: Collections, Photos, Preservation, Social Media, Uncategorized, tags

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Merce Cunningham, Dance Great, Dies at 90

July 27th, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin

What is dance?
Is it storytelling, using human forms to advance the storyline?
Is it movement with music?
Is it movement alone?
Merce Cunningham, a giant of modern dance, asked these questions and answered them–affirmatively in each case–over seven decades.  He died, at age 90, on Sunday in Manhattan.  From his introduction to the avant-garde composer John Cage in 1938 …

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Posted in: Concerts, Music, Photos

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How Green These Valleys Were, As Well …

July 24th, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin

Take a moment out of this busy day to relax at the side of a waterfall at Fairy Glen in Bettws-y-Coed Wales or go explore the castle ruins at Aberystwith, Wales. We’ve loaded 167 new color Photocrom travel views of Wales from 1890-1900 on our Flickr photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/. The set is full of castles …

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New Flickr Photo Set: Historic Newspapers

June 12th, 2009 by Matt Raymond

Media consumers today are bombarded with imagery of current events — some of them ephemeral, on our TV screens, and some more indelible.
A century ago, the use of halftone images was beginning to revolutionize newspapers and bringing the immediacy of photography to the masses.
Today the Library launched a new photostream on our Flickr page to …

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Lincoln Photos Added to Library's Flickr Stream

February 6th, 2009 by Matt Raymond

The general webby reaction to our pilot project with Flickr, which launched “The Commons,” has been rather Oliver Twist-like: “More, please!”
We started with thousands of Bain news photos from the 1910s and color images from the 1930s and 1940s (a project of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information). For Veterans Day …

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Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Collections, Curators, Events, Exhibitions, History, Photos

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Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot

December 11th, 2008 by Matt Raymond

In January, the Library embarked on something that took the online community by storm. In conjunction with Flickr, we loaded a few thousand images from the Library of Congress’ vast collections and asked the user community to get involved: Give us your tags, your comments, your huddled masses …
We were essentially conducting an experiment …

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Catching Up, and Disability Employment Awareness Month

October 17th, 2008 by Matt Raymond

Well, I’ve been a very bad blogger. But we’ve been pretty busy around here.
Let’s see, what have we been up to? Well, we’ve begun taking a little bit of the Library on the road — first in Fort Lauderdale Sept. 19 and next in Denver on Oct. 27 (with Dallas, San Francisco and …

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Posted in: Books, Events, LC Web site, Libraries, National Book Festival, News, Photos, Poetry

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