Archive: July 2025 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Melissa Lindberg; (Year) 2025; (Month) July

Art nouveau style print shows a female figure at center surrounded by botanical elements. The words "Savon Mucha" appear at large size in panels on both sides of the center panel featuring the female figure.

Looking at Mucha: Prints in the Library of Congress Collections

July 24, 2025

Fans of art nouveau design may be surprised to learn that the Prints & Photographs Division has more than a dozen striking images by the man widely credited as the originator of the style -- Czech artist Alphonse Mucha -- in the collections. See some examples in this blog post.

Posted in: Posters, Prints

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

Finding Pictures: Back to School

July 9, 2025

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

Refined by: (Author) Melissa Lindberg; (Year) 2025; (Month) July