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Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

David Seymour (CHIM), Photographer of the Spanish Civil War

Posted by: John Sayers

The following is a guest post by Beverly Brannan, Curator of Photography, Prints and Photographs Division, and first appeared on the Library’s “Picture This” blog. Photographer David Seymour (CHIM), with three Leica cameras around his neck. Photographer unknown, ca. 1950. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppbd.00599 When I read For Whom the Bell Tolls in my junior year of high …

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Go See “Now See Hear!” Now

Posted by: John Sayers

Today the Library adds another entry in its growing family of blogs. “Now See Hear!” gives our specialists in the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center a place to showcase some of the amazing treasures of our national audiovisual heritage. This is a place where Fugazi, Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Carole King, Buck Owens, …