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Archive: January 2017 (4 Posts)

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

Double Take: Detecting a Daredevil

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The latest entry in the Double Take series owes its existence to serendipity. Accidental discovery is alive and well in our online collections, and it’s easy to find one thing when looking for another. While working on a reference question about a building on 9th Street N.W. in Washington, D.C. and browsing through older photos …

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

Another Happy Anniversary Toast to the Flickr Commons!

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Nine years ago this month, the Library of Congress, after much planning and discussion, loaded photos for the first time to Flickr and began an extended, gratifying exchange with picture lovers all over the world. That first upload put the Library’s pictures in front of a community whose members enjoy looking closely, appreciating fully, and …

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

Two Bridger Ancestors, Joseph and Jim: Seeking Pictorial Reference Points

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

People often come to Prints & Photographs Division collections seeking pictorial reference points for aspects of their family history. Until fairly recently, to the degree that I had considered my ancestry at all, I’d assumed the earliest Bridgers to settle in the New World had been “encouraged” to emigrate from the British Isles as an …

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

A Little Bit of Sunshine

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Cold weather and I do not get along; I infinitely prefer the warm sun with a refreshing breeze. With the holidays behind and the remainder of winter ahead, I decided to search the term “sunshine” in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog to give me hope of warmer weather to come. The photograph below of …