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Posted by: Kate Phillips
This post will preview the May 20, 2026 Finding Pictures webinar to be presented by Curator of Graphic Arts Sara Duke and Archivist Owen Ellis. The webinar will discuss the effort to process and make accessible printed ephemera received through the Copyright deposit program between 1909 and 1978. Materials include trading cards, design drawings, greeting cards, labels, and advertisements.
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, and Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints & Photographs Division. Politically independent and a champion of the little guy, Herbert L. Block (1909–2001)—better known as “Herblock”—spared no one from the wrath of his art. His pointed commentaries offer an opportunity …
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
Samples of cartoon art that will be featured in an upcoming virtual presentation, Finding Pictures: Cartoon Cavalcade, featuring curator Sara W. Duke.
Posted in: Cartoons, Drawings, News & Events
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Paloma Ronis von Helms, Prints & Photographs Division Stanford in Government Liljenquist Fellow. As this year’s Summer Liljenquist Fellow in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, I reviewed ambrotype and tintype images, carte de visite photographs, lithographs, and other formats depicting soldiers and battlefield …
Posted in: Cartoons, Photographs
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. Popeye, Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Panther – some cartoon characters have become both instantly and internationally recognizable, but they didn’t get their start on television or in the movies, but rather on the pages …
Posted in: Acquisitions, Cartoons, Exhibitions, Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
Recently, while preparing to present a virtual orientation offering a sampling of Prints & Photographs Division collections for representations of work, workers and labor themes, I found myself selecting image after image that showed women working in a variety of industrial and office settings (at the same time recognizing that for centuries women have also …
Posted in: Cartoons, Drawings, Photographs, Prints, Women's History
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. “Exceptionally rare and believed to be previously unknown,” in the seller’s letter intrigued me. On offer, an 1836 anti-Martin Van Buren woodcut print, depicting Van Buren as a witch and riding the coattails of …
Posted in: Acquisitions, Cartoons, Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. Herb Block (aka Herblock) (1909-2001), legendary cartoonist for the Washington Post and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, probably never met Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), but he did admire this artist and his art. He also admired, …
Posted in: Cartoons
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art, Prints & Photographs Division. During Will Eisner Week, March 1-7, 2020, the Library of Congress joins art schools, libraries, universities, and museums in a global celebration of this legendary creator’s contributions to the world of comic art and …
Posted in: Cartoons