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Archive: February 2018 (3 Posts)

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

Remembering the African American Soldiers of the 9th U.S. Volunteer Infantry

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Jonathan Eaker, Reference Librarian, Prints & Photographs Division. Recently while going through some military photos in our collection I came across a set of twelve undigitized group portraits showing African American soldiers at the time of the Spanish American War. The photos launched me on research about a …

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

Presidential Sweethearts

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

In the course of searching for a specific photograph of President Woodrow Wilson for a reference question, I came across the image below, and couldn’t resist it! Between the heart-shaped frames, the huge grins on both the President and the First Lady, and the addition of a cupid holding up two hearts perched in the …