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Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Arts, Prints & Photographs Division. The Library of Congress has long collected cartoon art and illustration, including editorial cartoon and comic strip drawings. In the last fifteen years, we’ve expanded the scope to include original drawings for alternative comics, …
Posted in: Drawings, News & Events, Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
When I refile pictures that researchers have recently been consulting, I’m almost guaranteed to run across at least one that demands a second look. My first thought upon seeing this picture, which was copyrighted in 1920, was: How frightening would it have been to be on the streets of Portland, Oregon, when these airplanes swooped …
Posted in: Photographs, Series: Caught Our Eyes
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
The following is a guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Arden Alexander, Cataloging Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. Numerous photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division’s over 75,000 historical images of the Middle East show the people of the region harvesting, preparing, cooking, selling and enjoying food and drink. Included in these …
Posted in: Photographs, Series: Feast Your Eyes
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
When I was a kid, I was happy to tool around the neighborhood on my red, white and blue bike, handlebar tassels flowing in the breeze. My brother, on the other hand, once attempted to jump a Volkswagen Beetle on his two wheeler. Bicycles can tempt certain people to go fast, go high and try …
Posted in: Photographs, Posters
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
As I was trolling through Bain News Service photographs from 100 years ago, I couldn’t help but reflect on how hindsight shapes our view of pictures and their meaning. I stopped in my tracks at this photo from July 27, 1914, with its evocative depiction of cooling recreation on a warm day. Despite the somewhat …
Posted in: Photographs
![[Gertrude Käsebier, wearing feathered hat, standing, facing front, half-length portrait]](https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/files/2014/07/gk_with_hat.jpg)
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
After my babies came I determined to learn to use the brush. I wanted to hold their lovely little faces in some way that should be also my expression, so I went to an art school; two or three of them, in fact. But art is long and childhood is fleeting, I soon discovered, and …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Woody Woodis, Cataloger, Prints and Photographs Division Today, in honor of Bastille Day, or La Fête Nationale, marking the beginning of the French Revolution, we feature highlights from the French Political Cartoon Collection. This small but exemplary collection of 365 prints spans almost two centuries and touches on …
Posted in: Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
School may be out for the summer, but around the Library of Congress there’s always something new to learn. This week I joined teachers attending one of the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute sessions to display examples of primary sources that might be suited to classroom exercises. It set me to reflecting on examples …
Posted in: Prints
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 …
Posted in: Posters, Series: Feast Your Eyes