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Archive: July 2025 (2 Posts)

Mid-century style classroom full of students looking ahead to teacher and another student standing at chalkboard.

Finding Pictures: Back to School

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

Join Reference Specialist Ryan Brubacher online on Wednesday, July 16 at 03:00pm EDT as she explores school-related images from the collections. Showing a variety of perspectives and spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the shared images will feature buildings and classrooms, sports, naptime, students engaged in artistic and scientific learning, and more. The images in this post provide a preview.

Posted in: News & Events, Photographs, Webinars

A man stands making ice cream and looks down toward child sitting on the ground in front of a two story residential structure.

Ice Cream for Summer Relief: A Prequel

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

Continuing in the same vein as last week’s post, today we are looking at the people, technologies, and skills involved with making ice cream. The post will incorporate both photographs and printed matter from the collection and will focus on home production of ice cream.

Posted in: Photographs, Prints