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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
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
A dramatic photograph of two smokestacks tumbling down in D.C. catches our eye. This blog post explores the story behind these tall structures that formerly towered over the National Mall.
Posted in: Architecture, Photographs, Series: Double Take
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: Kristi Finefield
Hundred of photos, prints and drawings in our collections are cataloged as showing “Animals in Human Situations.” This subject heading, a library tool to help you find other items on the same subject, is my personal favorite for both the phrasing and the content it finds. This blog post will show you a selection of images of animals standing in for humans from the Prints & Photographs Division’s collections.
Posted in: Photographs
Posted by: Kate Phillips
On the birthday of comedian Lucille Ball, we are highlighting a story by Look Magazine staff photographer Charlotte Brooks documenting Ball’s return to her hometown at the height of I Love Lucy’s popularity. The post will draw from the Look Magazine Photograph Collection, as well as papers from the Charlotte Brooks Archive.
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
A piece of Hardanger embroidery in a recent Flickr album on needlework inspires a deeper dive into the collections for more images of this regional style of embroidery, specific to the Hardanger area of western Norway.
Posted in: Photographs, Prints