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

Double Take: Mirror Images

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

I did more than a double take when I saw the photograph below while searching in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog – I did a triple and maybe even a quadruple take! Once I convinced my brain of what I was seeing, I knew mirror images would be the theme of this installment of …

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

Double Take: Detecting a Daredevil

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The latest entry in the Double Take series owes its existence to serendipity. Accidental discovery is alive and well in our online collections, and it’s easy to find one thing when looking for another. While working on a reference question about a building on 9th Street N.W. in Washington, D.C. and browsing through older photos …