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Posted by: Neely Tucker
A reader identifies our Mystery Photo Contest's "most mysterious woman." Turns out she's been working in television and film for more than forty years, hiding in plain sight.
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It's peak cherry blossom season and the gorgeous trees are highlighted this month in the Library's Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free photographs, prints and illustrations.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, Pic of the Week, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Mystery Photo contest features a solved case -- a photo of what turned out to be actress Cynthia Lynn, best known as a recurring guest star on "Hogan's Heroes."
Posted in: Mystery Photo Contest, Photos, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress features movie houses, grand and small, in this month's set of Free to Use and Reuse photographs and prints.
Posted in: Film, Free to Use and Reuse, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress's Free to Use and Reuse set of copyright-free photographs and prints features eyeglasses this month.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The young woman in this photograph, likely an actress around 1970, has eluded identification by readers, despite dozens of guesses. We renew the search.
Posted in: National Film Preservation Board, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A conservator at the Library believes she has identified John Wood, an almost forgotten government photographer, as the man who took an iconic image of the first Lincoln inauguration.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Photos, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It’s time once again to dip into our Free to Use and Reuse sets of pictures, culled from the Library’s millions of copyright-free photographs, prints, maps and so on. This month, we’re featuring things that relate to ever-popular genealogy searches, as people look to uncover the secrets of their past by identifying their ancestors and the …
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Genealogy, Maps, Photos, Pic of the Week, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He’s back with another round, featuring some of Hollywood’s not-so-famous faces. Hello fellow photo sleuths! For your frustration, we submit to you nine more super-hard, super-obscure publicity stills that the Library is trying to identify. This new batch, …
Posted in: National Recording Registry, Photos