What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
July - September 2006
Events | Recently
Processed | Reference & Resources | Exhibitions | Featured
Acquisitions
Events
Documenting
the Middle East:
A Look at Photograph
Collections
In the United States
Thursday, August 3, 12 noon
Whittall
Pavilion, ground
floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
Speakers
from a number of repositories will
show examples from their institutions’ collections.
They will discuss how the collections
were acquired, the photographers
and what influenced
their work, how researchers
use the collections and
what can
we
learn from them.
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Clockwise
from upper left: Hilary Mac Austin
and Kathleen Thompson discussing Children
of the Depression; Mary
Mundy talking about cataloging
born-digital images; John Vlach
discussing his publication, Barns;
Comic Book Artists and Illustrators
and 9/11 panel discussion. |
Webcasts
Webcasts
of public programs relating to
Prints & Photographs Division
activities and collections are now
available. Includes presentations
by artists, presentations relating
to P&P collections, and presentations
relating to visual librarianship.
Recently added: The Photographs of
Marilyn Nance. |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Stereographs
of the Western
United States
More than
1,500 stereograph cards of Western
scenery have recently been scanned.
Subjects include the Hayden, Powell,
and Wheeler geological survey expeditions;
building the transcontinental railroad;
and views of the Rocky Mountains,
Yosemite and Yellowstone. Photographers
include John Carbutt, Alexander
Gardner, Alfred Hart, Jack Hillers,
William Henry Jackson, James Thurlow,
and Carleton Watkins.
View
descriptions (include links
to the images) |
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Lassie
vender hjem. Lester Glassner
Collection of Movie Posters.
LC-USZC4-12633 |
Lester Glassner
Collection of Movie Posters
More than 400 film posters,
most dating from the 1930's to
the
1950's, now have online descriptions,
many accompanied by digital images.
The collection features
many posters of foreign releases
of
American
movies.
View
descriptions and images
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Selected Images
of President Jimmy Carter from
U.S. News & World Report Collection
U.S. News & World Report staff
selected about 100 images of President
Carter to be scanned from the U.S.
News & World
Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Images show President Carter before
and
during his presidency.
They include Carter campaigning
for office, Carter with foreign
leaders including Menachim Begin,
Anwar Sadat, Margaret Thatcher,
and Deng Xiaoping, Carter at public
appearances and news conferences,
and with his family.
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images and descriptions
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Warren K. Leffler, photographer.
Jimmy Carter and Walter
Mondale at
the Democratic National Convention,
New York City. 1976
July 15.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-09739
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Reference information is available from
the Information
for Researchers, Lists
of Images on Popular Topics and Collection
Guides and Finding Aids pages.
Woman
putting flask in her Russian boot,
Washington, D.C. 1922.
LC-USZ62-97941
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The Dry Years:
Selected Images Relating to Prohibition
A new illustrated reference
aid, with links leading to additional
images on the topic.
View The
Dry Years reference
aid |
Pictorial
Americana expands
Additional pages have been
added on various historical
topics and themes to this web version
of a a 1955 publication, Pictorial
Americana:
A Select List
of Photographic Negatives in the
Prints and Photographs Division of
the Library of Congress. Newly
added sections deal with transportation,
motion pictures, music and musicians,
and temperance.
View Pictorial
Americana
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Pictorial Americana
montage
[View key] |
The opinga boy [Tirana, Albania] 1923.
LC-USZ62-106365
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Frank and Frances
Carpenter Collection Information
"About the Collection" information
now discusses the background
and
scope of this body
of
photographs
produced and gathered by Frank
and Frances
Carpenter,
ca. 1860-1934, to illustrate
popular writings on world geography.
Other features include a bibliography
and list of related resources.
View
collection information (via
Prints & Photographs Online
Catalog)
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Items from the Prints & Photographs
Division are well represented in the
following Library of Congress exhibitions. A
full list of Library of Congress exhibitions
is available on the Exhibitions
page.
Herblock,
artist, Quitting time and
all’s well, 1976.
Published in the Washington Post, October
3, 1976. Herbert L. Block Collection
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11972
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Enduring Outrage:
Herblock Cartoons
American Treasures from the Library
of Congress, Southwest Gallery,
2nd floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
July 17, 2006 - January
2007
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Collections from
the Library of Congress
Library of Congress/Ira Gershwin
Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall,
Los Angeles, California
Items from Library of Congress
collections that showcase Southern
California.
More
information
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The Sea
Hawk. Poster, copyrighted
by Warner Bros. Pictures, 1947.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07564
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
The lobby of the White House,
copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic
Company.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-11634 |
White House Interior Photographs
Eight rare 16
x 20 inch, hand-colored platinum
photographs of the interior of the White House,
newly redecorated after 1902 during President
Theodore Roosevelt’s administration.
Gift of Marjorie M. Fisher, 2006.
View
images and descriptions | More information
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Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder,
artist. Head of Minerva.
Oil painting. 1896
LC-DIG-ppmsca-10839
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Zaida Ben-Yusef
Zaida
Ben-Yusuf, photographer. Major
Gen. Leonard Wood, The governor
gen.[eral] of Cuba. Photographic
print, copyright 1900.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-10103
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information
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