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Archive: July 2014 (1 Post)

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Feast Your Eyes: Floating Pies

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Jan Grenci, Reference Specialist – Posters, Prints and Photographs Division. If you like history and you like pie, this poster could easily become one of your favorites. When Emanuel Leutze finished painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in 1851 he probably never imagined his work being adapted for an …