Join us for a quick preview of next week's Finding Pictures webinar offering a tour of select World’s Fairs images from the Prints & Photographs Division collections. The presentation will highlight four fairs spanning 1893 to 1965 in the United States, two in Chicago and one each in San Francisco and New York. Our experts will also discuss how you can learn more about P&P’s wide variety of photographs, posters, and design drawings showcasing the architecture, construction, and attendance at World’s Fairs both within the United States and abroad.
Today’s post celebrates vibrant, ripe, and nutritious summer produce, both homegrown and store-bought, through items in the popular graphic arts and poster collections in the Prints & Photographs Division.
Cartoonists at Work
The Prints & Photographs Division holds tens of thousands of cartoon drawings in our collection, including powerful political cartoons and stars of the Sunday funny pages. Today’s post will feature photographs of the cartoonists who made these panels, giving us a glimpse into their creative processes.
This post will preview the May 20, 2026 Finding Pictures webinar to be presented by Curator of Graphic Arts Sara Duke and Archivist Owen Ellis. The webinar will discuss the effort to process and make accessible printed ephemera received through the Copyright deposit program between 1909 and 1978. Materials include trading cards, design drawings, greeting cards, labels, and advertisements.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the spectator sport of pedestrianism, or what we might today call racewalking, saw its greatest popularity. This post takes a look at some of the celebrated pedestrians of the late 19th and even early 20th century through photos and prints.
What do eggs and the sun have in common? They are both vital materials in photographic processes. Both are represented in graphic form in photography related items from the Library’s vast collection of U.S. Patent Office trademark registrations. The collection covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the exact moment the photographic industry exploded, becoming accessible to both professionals and amateurs alike. This week’s post will share a sampling of these.
For many of us who live in or near cities, public transit is an integral part of our daily lives, helping us to travel to and from our job sites, schools, and countless other destinations. Join us as we explore subway-related images from the collections.
Holiday cooking season is upon us. Today we’re looking at technologies intending to make our lives in the kitchen a bit easier. Drawing from advertisements, trademark registrations, photographs, and architectural drawings, this post highlights time, energy, and space-saving devices designed (in theory) to streamline our culinary experiences.
