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Archive: March 2012 (6 Posts)

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Baseball’s Spring Training

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

As I write this post on March 29th, Washington’s cherry trees have already bloomed . . . and gone . . . and another rite of spring has passed as well: baseball’s spring training! The 2012 Major League Baseball season commenced yesterday in Tokyo as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Oakland Athletics (who got their …

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Words About Pictures: More National Book Festival Visitor Comments

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

We are still savoring the comments visitors to the National Book Festival offered last fall while viewing sample photographs from our collections.  This visitor’s comments seem particularly apt as we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month. The commenter recognized the well-known subject of the photograph, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune served …

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Alice Rohe: Pioneering Woman Photojournalist

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

Start with a solid upbringing as the daughter of an artist father in late 19th-century Kansas; add a college education at a time when women were generally not college-bound; combine a heaping helping of five years in turn-of-the-century New York City with a dash of women’s rights. Then, fold in recovery in a Colorado sanitorium …

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Collections Ripe for Research: New Reference Aid

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Researchers come to their topics in many ways.  Some set out to test a theory, to revise the assertions of others, or to explore people, places, events or issues from new angles. For others, topics surface from the primary sources themselves.  One of my favorite stories in this regard is historian David McCullough’s account of …

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Civil War Faces – New Additions

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. “You know the generals. Now meet the young men who made them famous.” That’s how Tom Liljenquist describes the special collection of rare portrait photographs that he continues to build at the Library of Congress to commemorate the American Civil War. …