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Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
The following is a guest post by Julie Stoner, Reference Technician in the Prints & Photographs Division. I like most sports; I’m just not very good at playing any of them. And as a much better spectator than participant, I always look forward to “March Madness,” a whirlwind month of basketball tournaments held by the …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
The names of some landmark women photographers, Lisette Model, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White, to name three, may not only ring familiar but also prompt clear visual associations of now iconic images shot by each. Other names such as Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Thérèse Bonney, and Hansel Mieth, may be less familiar. Yet, they all, and another …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
The following is a guest post by Gay Colyer, Digital Library Specialist in the Prints and Photographs Division. Not every Northerner who traveled to the Confederacy during the Civil War went to fight. Some journeyed South on a variety of educational and humanitarian missions. After Federal forces seized Beaufort, South Carolina, and the sea islands …
Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Women's History
![[Gertrude Käsebier, wearing feathered hat, standing, facing front, half-length portrait]](https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/files/2014/07/gk_with_hat.jpg)
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
After my babies came I determined to learn to use the brush. I wanted to hold their lovely little faces in some way that should be also my expression, so I went to an art school; two or three of them, in fact. But art is long and childhood is fleeting, I soon discovered, and …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
A new biographical essay about photographer Ann Rosener (1914-2012) sheds light on her wartime work as she focused on the contributions of women workers and other aspects of the World War II home front. In the early 1940s Rosener documented preparations for war and home front activities for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) by contributing …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
Start with a solid upbringing as the daughter of an artist father in late 19th-century Kansas; add a college education at a time when women were generally not college-bound; combine a heaping helping of five years in turn-of-the-century New York City with a dash of women’s rights. Then, fold in recovery in a Colorado sanitorium …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History