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Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Hanna Soltys, Reference Librarian, Prints & Photographs Division. As we celebrate women’s history this month, we’re heading to the track, the open waters, the rink, the mat, the field, the mountains, and many more areas to highlight women in sports. While there isn’t one set collection to explore …
Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Women's History
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
In a recent search for a portrait of a different judge in the C. M. Bell Studio collection, reference librarian Jon Eaker came upon an image with the title “Gibbs, Judge M.W.” Struck by the man’s image, and wanting to learn more about him, Jon did some reading and learned that Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was …
Posted in: African American History, Photographs, Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
As it usually does this time of year, my California born-and-bred spirit has me already looking for signs of spring (the novelty of winter going only so far). And where better place to turn for a little spring — especially when nature won’t oblige — than the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog? But the results …
Posted in: Photographs, Posters, Prints
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
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
As we transition to a new year, one of the ways we mark the change is acquiring a new calendar. Even though many of us have moved the tracking of our meetings, tasks, birthdays and other important events to a digital format, I still enjoy a physical calendar, and I especially enjoyed a recent look …