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Posted by: Kristi Finefield
Photos, posters and prints in the Library of Congress collections include photos of bookmobiles, mobile and temporary libraries. This week’s post highlights all the ways libraries have come to the reader.
Posted in: Photographs
Posted by: Kate Phillips
Today’s post uses Margaret Wise Brown’s classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon as a playful framework for exploring the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. It incorporates a variety of items from across the collection, including stereographs, lithographs, trademark registrations, and photographs.
Posted in: Photographs, Prints
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The Library of Congress collections include many photographs of the built environment that collectively represent many different types of architectural features. This week’s post highlights a distinctive structure that can be both charming and practical: the spiral staircase.
Posted in: HABS/HAER/HALS, Photographs
Posted by: Kate Phillips
Every other month, staff in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division come together for a “Learning Hour,” a time dedicated to knowledge sharing, training, and discussion. This month’s session took the form of a challenge: each participant opened an unfamiliar box from the collections and reported back on what they discovered. How is the collection arranged and described? What might a researcher encounter when using it? How could access be improved? This week’s post highlights some of the insights that emerged from that exercise.
Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Series: Behind the Scenes