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Archive: January 2012 (5 Posts)

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Robert Burns Day: Haggis, Anyone?

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!” (Robert Burns, Address To A Haggis) I hope you’ve already begun preparing your Burns Supper, because today is Robert Burns Day, and it takes several hours to make a proper haggis! If the prospect of dinner cooked in a sheep’s stomach does not appeal, …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Chinese New Year Greetings

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The following is a guest post by Brett Carnell, Acting Head, Technical Services Section, Prints & Photographs Division. Here’s wishing you a happy Chinese New Year. We usher in the Year of the Dragon with a photo from 100 years ago showing two men toasting the new year in New York’s Chinatown. Running for fifteen …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

New Deal in the New Year: WPA Posters on Flickr

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Keep Your Teeth Clean. Spare the Trees. Be Careful Near Machinery. Advice dispensed by posters created between 1936 and 1943 for the WPA continues to make good sense today. (WPA first stood for Works Progress Administration, and later Work Projects Administration.) If you are still shopping for New Year’s resolutions, maybe you can turn for …