Archive: August 2018 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Jaime Mears; (Year) 2018; (Month) August

Dozens of squares, each with its own individual color or shade, lined up in rows and columns

Exploring Late 1800s Political Cartoons through Interactive Data Visualizations

August 28, 2018

This is a guest blog post by Jeffrey Shen, a high-school Innovation Intern with LC Labs. Over the course of my three month internship with the LC Labs team, I developed a website/interactive data visualization which allows users to explore the late 1800s through political cartoons contained in the Cartoon Drawings collection. The main feature of …

Posted in: Guest Posts, Tools and Infrastructure

Explore Historical Images through the Library of Congress Free to Use Browser Extension

August 16, 2018

Posted by: Jaime Mears

This is a guest post by Flynn Shannon, a Junior Fellow in the Library of Congress Office of Communications. Before coming to the Library of Congress as a Junior Fellow I had no concept of how large or varied its collections are. Over 167 million items are kept at the Library. Of these, more than …

Posted in: Tools and Infrastructure

Refined by: (Author) Jaime Mears; (Year) 2018; (Month) August