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Archive: September 2014 (4 Posts)

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

Feast Your Eyes: On Doughnuts Today

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a  guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Marilyn Ibach, Reference Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. The latest installment in the Feast Your Eyes series features a perennial favorite: the doughnut. The constant in these images of doughnuts is their appeal – seen in the smiling faces of soldiers, society …

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

O Say Can You See

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? The lengthy title of John Bower’s famous print [below] depicting the 1814 British bombardment at Fort McHenry both describes the scene portrayed and provides a tidy summary of the sustained barrage: “A view of the …