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Archive: November 2011 (2 Posts)

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New Resource List: Newspaper Photograph Morgues

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

  Historic news photographs offer an immediacy and perspective on past events that make them among the most popularly requested items in our collections. The Prints & Photographs Division’s New York World-Telegram & the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection is a case in point.  Consisting of an estimated one million photographs that the newspaper assembled between …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Words About Pictures: National Book Festival Visitor Comments

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

In a previous post (“Still Feeling the Glow: Photo Guessing Game at the National Book Festival,” Oct. 26), we described how we  brought copies of photographs from Prints & Photographs Division collections to the National Book Festival in September and asked visitors to participate in a “guessing game.”  We showed the pictures first with no …