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Archive: 2016 (11 Posts)

Claire Rochester. Photo by Bain News Service, 1916 April. http://hdl.loc.gov

Pictures to Go: Women and Automobiles

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

How have women and automobiles been depicted together? The image I conjured in my mind’s eye involved attractive women draped across a car in a purely decorative fashion–something like the image below, where the finer features of the bathing beauties are more on view than the Columbia Six Sport they are presumably helping to advertise. …

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

Building Bridges through the Flickr Commons

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Last week we celebrated eight years of sharing Library of Congress pictures on the photosharing site, Flickr, by posting there one spectacular bridge photo each day for eight days. Why bridges? Because, when we began sharing photos in Flickr back in 2008, the Library of Congress also joined with Flickr to launch The Commons, which …