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Spectators Pictured “Fanning” the Flames of Baseball Passion

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The mid-season All-Star Game break provides baseball fans an opportunity to assess their team’s progress thus far, taking stock of strengths and areas for improvement, successes and failings. But, I’m going to take a much further distant historical look at baseball spectators and fans enjoying the game. Going back some 150 years to October 1865, the engraved …

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

A Medley of Visually Deceptive Prints

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The following is a guest post by Karen Chittenden and Woody Woodis, Cataloging Specialists in the Prints & Photographs Division: A curious form of engraved print appeared in London in the early 18th century on which multiple images appear to be randomly scattered across the surface of the paper as though they were being viewed upon …