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Posted by: Megan Halsband
Good news everyone – the first webcomics dataset is available here!!! Wait, what? As a part of the Library’s work to explore our web archives, my colleagues at LC Labs and the Web Archiving Team have made a dataset generated from content harvested from the Library of Congress’s web archive of qwantz.com (Dinosaur Comics!). So …
Posted in: Comic Books, Web Archives, Web Comics
Posted by: Heather Thomas
Rose Cecil O'Neill was an iconoclast in every sense of the word. A self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Arlene Balkansky
Have you tried searching our new online collection: Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874? We've just added some additional issues of The North Star and Frederick Douglass' Paper, all digitized from original paper format.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Digitized Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This is a revision of the Headlines and Heroes 2019 International Women’s Day blog. Sunday, March 8, 2020, was International Women’s Day and today we return to our historical newspaper archives for stories featuring change-making women in newspapers searchable in Chronicling America. This database, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of …
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Women's History