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Now Showing in Full Color: Movie Palaces

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Trademark registration showing a line drawing of a lens with light beams projecting from it. Above is a banner reading "snap-shots."

Selling the Sun: Trademarks of Photographic Materials

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Striking Images of Bowling Alleys

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The Beatles Touch Down in Washington, D.C.

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

A stereograph showing a bored looking woman in a full, hand-colored skirt.

Pops of Color: Hand-Colored Photographs

Posted by: Kate Phillips

A contact sheet composed of four vertical panoramas. Each shows an audience overlooking the edge of a racetrack under a bright blue sky.

Widening the Frame: Panoramas by Armando Arorizo

Posted by: Kate Phillips

Photo shows People on the platform and train at the Foggy Bottom metro station on the Washington Metro, Washington, D.C.

Subterranean Travel: Subway Systems in Pictures

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

Finding Pictures: Charles M. Goodman Collection

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Two nearly identical black-and-white photographs appear side-by-side and show a fountain covered icicles in the foreground and the U.S. Capitol in the background.

Nature’s Ornaments: Icicles in Photographs

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg