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Feast Your Eyes: Chuck Wagon Roundup

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a  guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Brett Carnell, Head of Technical Services, Prints and Photographs Division. Growing up in a ranching community means that when autumn is in the air, my mind drifts to the legendary fall roundup and its iconic chuck wagon as depicted in classic Western …

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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 …

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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 …

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Feast Your Eyes: Floating Pies

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Jan Grenci, Reference Specialist – Posters, Prints and Photographs Division. If you like history and you like pie, this poster could easily become one of your favorites. When Emanuel Leutze finished painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in 1851 he probably never imagined his work being adapted for an …

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Feast Your Eyes: Fruit Forever Fresh in Still Life

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. The vibrant colors and massive watermelon in this hand-colored lithograph first caught my eye. Tucked around, beside, and below the melon are rosy apples, golden pears, peaches, plums, blackberries, a cantaloupe, and dark and …

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Feast Your Eyes: Sold on Chocolate!

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a  guest post for the Feast Your Eyes series by Mary Mundy, Cataloging Specialist, and Kristen Sosinski, Processing Technician, both of the Prints and Photographs Division. Two advertisements caught our eyes while searching for images of our favorite sweet treat. This photograph advertising H. McCobb’s Cocoa & Chocolate is interesting for its …

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Feast Your Eyes: Sweets in Store

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Donna Collins, Photo Preservation Specialist, Prints and Photographs Division. On Valentine’s Day, candy and other sweet treats are popular gifts. With this holiday approaching, I browsed the Prints and Photographs collections featuring shops and stands that displayed such confections. The range of tempting locales was as varied as …