(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: …
Archive for the ‘tags’ Category (14 posts)
Going Back, Waaay Back
October 1st, 2009 by Jennifer Gavin
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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.
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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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Library of Congress Acquires Spider-Man's 'Birth Certificate'
April 30th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
Comic Book Guy of “The Simpsons” has been known to have a cardiac episode or two. But an acquisition the Library of Congress just made might give his heart its “worst episode ever.” (Apologies for borrowing the pun from that particular “episode.”)
“Spider-senses” all around the Library were set tingling when we learned that the Library …
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Images of 'Hitler's Private Gallery' Now Online
April 18th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
There are probably few people about whom more words have been written than Adolf Hitler. But today the Library of Congress has helped add to the visual dimension surrounding one of the most reviled figures in history.
You might have seen news a couple of weeks ago about a painting in Britain’s National Gallery. The Gallery …
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To Thomas: Happy Birthday. From: Your Library.
April 11th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
Tomorrow we’re having a party. Maybe you’ve heard.
The Library of Congress is throwing open its bronze doors to the public for the first time since 1990 to celebrate the new Library of Congress Experience, a project for which I have run out of superlatives, so I will leave the descriptions to sources of less …
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Students, Media Get Look at Library of Congress Experience
April 9th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
We held a media event today to show off the new Library of Congress Experience (opening April 12!), and we were fortunate to be joined by teacher Amy Trenkle, who spoke about the power of the Library’s educational materials, and many of her students from Stuart-Hobson Middle School here in DC (thanks, Amy!), along with …
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A Little Refreshing at the Library
April 8th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
As part of our new Library of Congress Experience, the Library has been updating a lot of our materials and signage around our Capitol Hill complex. If our renovation in 1997 was a facelift for the Thomas Jefferson Building, then maybe we’ll call this a touch of Botox.
Some of the most noticeable changes include tall, …
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Flickr Webcast Goes Online
April 3rd, 2008 by Matt Raymond
Knowing there is great reader interest in the “Flickr project,” I wanted to let everyone know that a webcast from a couple of months ago detailing the evolution and initial successes of the program, featuring our own staff along with George Oates of Flickr, is now online here.
It’s pretty interesting stuff, and I’ve never seen …
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More Photos in Flickr
March 20th, 2008 by Matt Raymond
Our friend and former colleague, Justin Thorp, scooped us a bit on the fact that we have added some additional photos to our Flickr account. (See our previous posts here and here.) Which suits me just fine; we love all Library fans!
It is true, under cover of night (OK, maybe not night, exactly), we added …
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