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

Feast Your Eyes: On Doughnuts Today

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a  guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Marilyn Ibach, Reference Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. The latest installment in the Feast Your Eyes series features a perennial favorite: the doughnut. The constant in these images of doughnuts is their appeal – seen in the smiling faces of soldiers, society …

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

Feast Your Eyes: Food of the Middle East

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a  guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Arden Alexander, Cataloging Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. Numerous photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division’s over 75,000 historical images of the Middle East show the people of the region harvesting, preparing, cooking, selling and enjoying food and drink.  Included in these …

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

World War I: The Picture Starts to Form

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

As I was trolling through Bain News Service photographs from 100 years ago, I couldn’t help but reflect on how hindsight shapes our view of pictures and their meaning. I stopped in my tracks at this photo from July 27, 1914, with its evocative depiction of cooling recreation on a warm day.  Despite the somewhat …