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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: Melissa Lindberg
Among the many images of canines in the Library of Congress collections are some striking shots taken by photographer Anthony Angel (born Angelo Rizzuto) in mid-twentieth-century New York City. Read this post to see some examples.
Posted in: Photographs
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
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
Join Curator Adam Silvia and renowned photographer Shawn Walker for a Finding Pictures webinar where they will debut their documentary interview on Walker’s life in photography, featuring images from the Shawn Walker Photograph Collection held in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. A founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a highly esteemed collective of Black photographers in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Walker reflects on his youth growing up in Harlem, his journey to becoming a photographer, his experiences photographing in Cuba and Guyana and his creativity as an artist. Silvia and Walker will take questions from attendees afterwards.
Posted in: News & Events, Photographs, Webinars
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. Do you need ideas for fixing up an old house? Close-up views of the Statue of Liberty? The dimensions of a Spanish mission? All that information and more is ready for you in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection with 450,000 drawings, photographs, and …
Posted in: Architecture, Drawings, HABS/HAER/HALS, Photographs
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
Sample some images from the Library of Congress postcard collections in this post as we prepare to host a webinar on April 16 featuring a broad selection of postcards from the late 19th century forward. We hope this quick introduction will encourage you to watch the live event – or listen to the recording if you aren’t able to make it!
Posted in: News & Events, Photographs, Postcards, Prints, Webinars
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. Our talented teams in the Prints & Photographs Division (P&P) organized and described 250,000 pictures during the past year. The processing teams completed several new collections for you to enjoy from a distance or examine in person, and digitization staff added some …
Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Ready for Research
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
For some of us, it’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t have portable communication devices that fit in our pockets — when a phone call required access to a wired line. I recently came across a photograph with a phone booth in it and I struggled to remember the last time I had …
Posted in: Photographs
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division, with excerpts from the Richard Morris Hunt Research Guide. How do you breathe life into a valuable but under-appreciated and complicated collection from the 1800s? The Prints & Photographs Division was fortunate to earn the attention of Sam Watters—an exceptional historian of …
Posted in: Architecture, Drawings, Photographs, Researcher Stories