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Archive: June 2015 (11 Posts)

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

A Hole-some Treat

Posted by: Erin Allen

Doughnuts are as quintessential to America as apple pie. Who hasn’t happily licked glaze off his or her fingers or made a mess with powdered sugar? If there were never to be a Krispy Kreme, Dunkin’ Donuts, LaMar’s or neighborhood mom-and-pop bakery, life as we know it would be a less cheery place … these …

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

Creating Cartoons: Art and Controversy

Posted by: Erin Allen

(The following is an article written by Sara Duke and Martha Kennedy, both of the Prints and Photographs Division, for the May/June 2015 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) The Library’s vast collection of cartoon art chronicles the nation’s political controversies from its founding …