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Advertising poster featuring bright red strawberries growing abundantly through holes lining a barrel.

The Glories of Summer Produce

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Black-and-white (yellow toned) photograph showing light reflecting off the surface of water. The light also peeks through clouds in the sky.

From the Reference Desk: Pictures that Delight Us

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

Cartoonist Bud Sagendorf draws the character Popeye on a an easel surrounded by children and a model wearing a Popeye costume. The artist is holding the hand of one child, guiding him in contributing to the drawing.

Cartoonists at Work

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Kittintypes: Nineteenth-Century Cats in the Daniel Carter Beard Collection

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Two men in front of a group of mourners in a cemetery. Some hold musical instruments. Large crypts are visible in the background.

Cutting Loose: Edward Newman’s Photographs of New Orleans Jazz Parades and Funerals

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Photograph shows group of six children, two women, and a dog gathered in front of fireplace.

A Wartime Family Creates a Village

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

A blueprint diagram of two dictation and transcription workflows, one complex and one simplified.

Finding Pictures: Twentieth-Century Ephemera

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Travel America: Mapping the Highsmith Photograph Archive

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Lampposts: Illuminating by Day and Night

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg