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Archive: November 2013 (5 Posts)

Feast Your Eyes: Filling the Holiday Platter

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Tomorrow many households in the U.S. will be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. Holidays–particularly food-centered ones–conjure up many personal associations. They also tend to inspire evocative pictures. Turkey in many shapes and forms predominate in the array of images that turn up when you search the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for “Thanksgiving.” But my family …

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

A Scanning Initiative: Harris & Ewing Collection

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

It’s easy to relate to the first three words in the original caption for this photograph from the Harris & Ewing Collection: Initiative needed here. Whether it’s capturing a larger-than-life subject like the Capitol police officer below, or tackling the scanning and cataloging of thousands of fragile glass negatives, we can all agree that initiative …

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

Sequoyah: A Man of Letters

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The gentleman with the long pipe and the colorful garments (right) points to a document. What is it? Take a closer look (below). It does not appear to be a letter or excerpt from a text. Some letters are recognizable as part of the Roman alphabet: I can see an A, an H, a J, …

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

The Last Men of the Revolution

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Photographs of veterans number in the thousands within the collections of the Library of Congress. We can see the faces of veterans of wars fought in foreign lands and in our own backyards. We have photographs of veterans who fought in wars in the last century – and the one before that – as well …