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Ready for Research: Newsmaker Photos by Bernard Gotfryd

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Anne Mitchell, Senior Cataloging Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. Interested in news-worthy people and events from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s? Get ready to explore the work of photographer Bernard Gotfryd, who donated his work to the Library of Congress. Copyright restrictions ended in 2016. Now available online …

Posted in: Jewish American History, Photographs, Portraits, Ready for Research

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Celebrating Artists’ Portraits at the Library of Congress for African American History Month

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following guest post is by Katherine Blood, Curator of Fine Prints, Prints & Photographs Division In honor of African American History Month, this gathering of extraordinary individual and group portraits by contemporary artists features works that speak of community, family, and the envisioned past, present, and future. Nelson Stevens’s vibrant screenprint called Spirit Sister, …

Posted in: African American History, Portraits, Prints