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By: Bryan Cornell
Announcement of screening of "Match-King" (First National, 1932) in the Pickford Theater at the Library of Congress on December 12, 2024.
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Kristi Finefield
A series of six prints in our Popular Graphic Arts Collection have always intrigued me. As one is themed around decorating a Victorian era Christmas tree, I thought it timely to share. Many folks are busily wrestling live trees into place or unboxing their artificial trees in this early part of December. This print from …
Posted in: Picture This
By: David Morris
(This post is by Michael Neubert, Head of the European Reading Room.) In the European Reading Room college and graduate students often look for primary sources that they can use to support their research projects. Primary sources such as photographs, letters, and newspaper articles “provide an original source of information about an era or event.” …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
By: Neely Tucker
In the winter of 1906, Mark Twain was a tired and grieving man. He was 71. The past dozen years had been brutal. He had gone bankrupt in the mid-1890s. Then his 24-year-old daughter died from spinal meningitis. Then his beloved wife, Olivia, suffered through years of heart trouble before dying at age 58 in …
Posted in: Timeless
By: David Morris
(This post is by Hannah Benson, former intern in the European Reading Room.) Zinaida Gippius was one of the many women writers in nineteenth-century Russia who ignored the societal restrictions placed upon her. Although born into privilege as the daughter of a well-respected lawyer, she had an undeniable talent and a fearless personality all her …
Posted in: 4 Corners of the World
By: Cary O’Dell
The late Quincy Jones is remembered in this look back at the seminal pop record and cultural blockbuster that he produced, Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Posted in: Now See Hear!
The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce the 2024 selectees for our Kluge Staff Fellowship Program. Each year, we welcome applications from Library staff, eventually selecting up to two people whose projects are best suited to the Library’s collections and the Kluge Center’s mission. Nathan Dorn is a Librarian within the Global Legal …
Posted in: Insights
By: Melissa Lindberg
Let Prints & Photographs Division Reference Librarian Gillian Mahoney take you for a four-wheeled tour of car-related images from the collections this Wednesday, November 20 at 3:00pm EST. Explaining her interest in P&P’s extensive pictorial representation of cars, Gillian notes that, “images of cars in our catalog offer a fascinating glimpse into automotive and industrial …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
'Tis the season! The Library of Congress' Packard Campus this month is showing some of its favorite films that celebrate the season in some way. Come celebrate with us!
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Kristi Finefield
Included in my most recent Flickr album on aerial views was the postcard below. This particular card is a photomechanical color print of Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was the site of the annual Sugar Bowl college football game for its first few decades, until it moved to the Superdome. Finding it sent …
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