What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
June - September 2007
Publications & Events | Recently
Processed | Reference & Resources | Exhibitions | Featured
Acquisitions
Publications & Events
Bridges:
A Norton/Library of Congress
Visual Sourcebook
The fifth title in the Norton/Library
of Congress series, this abundantly
illustrated book surveys American
bridges from coast to coast, exploring
how they express a set of structural
ideas. Full citation:
Richard L. Cleary, Bridges:
A Norton/Library of Congress Visual
Sourcebook. New York:
W.W. Norton; Washington, DC:
Library of Congress, 2007.
More
information (via Norton web
site) |
Cover of Bridges |
Cover of
Photographs: Archival Care and
Management |
Photographs:
Archival Care and Management,
featuring contributions from
P&P staff
This
publicaton provides pragmatic techniques
for each aspect of managing collections—from
appraisal and accessioning through
preservation, arrangement, description,
and research use, with special
chapters on visual literacy and
legal issues. Full citation: Photographs:
Archival Care and Management,
by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler and Diane
L. Vogt-O'Connor, with Helena Zinkham,
Brett Carnell, Kit Peterson.
Chicago: Society of American Archivists,
2006.
More
information (via Society
of American Archivists site) |
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. |
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. |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Baseball Player
Portraits
Photographer Paul Thompson captured
25 famous baseball players in vivid
close-up images deposited for copyright
in 1910-11. Many were models for
American Tobacco Co. baseball cards,
including the Gold Borders (T205)
and Triple Folders (T202) series.
View images and descriptions for
the:
photographs | related baseball
card series |
Paul
Thompson photograph of Christy Mathewson,
pitcher for the New York Giants (detail), copyrighted
1910, and related baseball card,
1911
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13527 (photograph)
and LOT
13163-25, no. 65 (baseball card)
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A.J. Russell, photographer. Gen'l. H. Haupt, ca. 1862
or 1863. LOT 9209, no. 21
LC-DIG-ppmsca-10341 |
Andrew J. Russell
Photographs
Captain Andrew J. Russell, of
the 141st New York Infantry, was
the first U.S. Army photographer. Working
under the direction
of General Herman Haupt, Russell
documented the work of the United
States Military Construction Corps
between 1861 and 1865. P&P
recently scanned 281 images from
three groups (LOTs).
More information
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National Photo
Company Collection glass negatives
Scanning of glass negatives
from this news photo service, which
operated in Washington, D.C., between
1909 and the 1940s, is well underway.
Scans of the negatives (which total
34,600) are added to PPOC as they
are made ready, offering ever-growing
glimpses of the political, social,
and sporting scene, particularly
in the capital city, from the 1910s
through the 1930s.
More information
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Pres. Wilson at Army & Navy
ball game, 1919. National Photo
Company Collection.
LC-DIG-npcc-00572
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| Aeronautics
- Group Records Enhanced
Nearly 400 catalog records describing
groups of images relating to aviation
and aircraft have been enhanced
to include more detailed description
and indexing of subject matter
represented.
The enhanced records will make
it easier to retrieve relevant
pictures and to perceive the strengths
of P&P's
aviation holdings, which include
early experiments in flight and
developments in commercial and
military aviation.
View sample records (select link
to check for digitized images)
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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.
Arriba España. Lithograph, [between 1936 and 1939]
LC-USZC4-7363.
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Spanish Civil War Posters Collection
Information
"About the Collection" information
available through the Prints &
Photographs Online Catalog now
discusses the background and scope
of the posters with links to related
resources.
View
collection information (via
Prints & Photographs Online
Catalog)
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Pictorial Americana Additions:
from Holidays to Labor Organizations
Six more chapters are available
in Pictorial
Americana, a Web site offering
selections originally made for
a 1955 publication, Pictorial
Americana: A Select List of Photographic
Negatives in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. Recently
added lists feature images relating
to: Holidays, Hotels, Household
appliances, Industry, Labor,
and Medicine. Staff have added
tips for finding further images
on the topics represented.
View Pictorial
Americana table of contents
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Lagonda Agricultural Works,
Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, chromolithograph,
copyrighted 1859.
LC-DIG-pga-02032 |
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.
On the Cutting
Edge: Contemporary Japanese Prints
Great Hall Galleries, 1st floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
March 29, 2007 - June 30, 2007
View online exhibition
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Noboru Yamataka,
artist. Samurai House in Autumn,
2004. College Women's Association
of Japan Print Show Collection
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13143
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Elizabeth White,
artist, Birches and pines, MacDowell
Colony woodland. 1937.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13433
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A Century of Creativity:
The MacDowell Colony 1907—2007
American Treasures from the Library
of Congress, Southwest Gallery,
2nd floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
February 22 - August 18, 2007
View online exhibition |
Shakespeare in
America
American Treasures from the Library
of Congress, Southwest Gallery,
2nd floor, Thomas
Jefferson Building
February 22 - August 18, 2007
View online exhibition |
James
Moran & Co.'s
Romeo, fine cut, chewing tobacco.
Copyright 1873.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13469
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
Photographic Portraits of Actress
Charlotte Cushman
The Library recently purchased
a unique half-plate ambrotype portrait
of Cushman and the
only known vignetted daguerreotype
of the actress.
View
images and descriptions | More
information
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Charlotte Cushman.
Half plate daguerreotype, ca. 1855.
LC-USZC4-13410 |
Grand
Canyon National Park, a Free Government
Service. Screen print, ca.
1938.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13397 |
Rare WPA Posters
The Library acquired
five posters created by the Works
Progress Administration to advertise
America's national parks, circa
1938. The posters complement the
Library's existing collection of
WPA posters.
View images and
descriptions |
Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder,
artist. Head of Minerva.
Oil painting. 1896
LC-DIG-ppmsca-10839
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