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Archive: December 2013 (5 Posts)

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Caught Our Eyes: Santa Gets Credentials

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Who can appreciate clear skies more than Santa? This 1927 Harris & Ewing photograph documents Santa receiving rather than giving: he gets the “all clear” to navigate the skies on Christmas Eve, complete with a pilot’s license. While a pilot’s license may not be on everyone’s wish list, anyone who has worked with historical photographs …

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

Tales of Football and Italian Americans: Two New Illustrated Books

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Pictures help tell stories. Two new books published by the Library of Congress are full of hundreds of prints, posters, photographs and other illustrations drawn from the Library’s vast collections. Both books look back over hundreds of years of American history and tell their respective stories with passion – and pictures. Football Nation: Four Hundred …

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

Great Photographs Make You Look Twice

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. Which photographs do you consider “great”? I’d especially like to hear which images stand out in your mind’s eye, because I was recently challenged to define greatness for a new compilation of more than 700 fascinating pictures that represent the breadth …