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February - May 2011
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| Public Program: Marvels of Roadside and Main Street America: The Itinerant Eye of John Margolies
March 9 , 2011, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Mumford Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building
Speakers include the photographer himself, recounting a lifetime spent documenting America's unique built environment and character: drive-in movie theaters, neon-lit downtowns, Art Deco diners, dilapidated gas stations, iconic objects of regional pride, and other attractions.
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"Last Full Measure" - Exhibition of Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits
April 12 -August 13, 2011
Second-floor South Gallery of the Jefferson Building
Nearly 400 ambrotype and tintype photographs showing both Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as their wives and children will be on display.
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Unidentified girl in mourning dress.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26863
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| Lecture: William Kentridge: "Stone Age Drawing," Cartoon Logic & South Africa’s Process of Change
April 21, 2011, 12 noon
Whittall Pavillion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building
Swann Foundation fellow Leora Maltz-Leca will relate William Kentridge's studio processes of drawing and animation to South Africa’s transformative political change in this illustrated lecture.
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New Book: Cemeteries (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
Illustrated with more than 600 photographs, the newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series takes readers on a visual journey from early churchyards and family plots to the establishment of the nation's first rural cemeteries of the nineteenth century, to the expansive memorial parks and 'green' burials of today.
More information  (via W.W. Norton & Company site)
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New Book: Photographic Memory
Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography traces the rise of the photo album from the turn of last century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium found in the collections of the Library of Congress. Includes albums by such photographers and filmmakers as, Walker Evans, Danny Lyon, Holland Day, Jim Goldberg, Dorothea Lange, Duane Michals, Leni Riefenstahl and W. Eugene Smith.
Full citation: Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography. Edited by Verna Posever Curtis. New York: Aperture Foundation/Library of Congress, 2011
More information (via Art Book site)
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For information about the Flickr project, view the Flickr Project page.
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted musket in front of American flag. Between 1861 and 1865.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26921
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Liljenquist Family Collection
All of the more than 700 rare ambrotype and tintype photographs that feature Civil War soldiers and members of their families have been digitized and described. The photographs often show weapons, hats, canteens, musical instruments, painted backdrops, and other details that enhance the research value of the collection. Among the most rare images are sailors, African Americans in uniform, a Lincoln campaign button, and portraits of soldiers with their families and friends.
View in PPOC | "The Last Full Measure" - the donor's perspective on the collection |
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Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs
The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs provides almost 350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered, with scattered examples through 1945. Military service photographs document participation in the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, and World War I, as well as several photographs showing Buffalo soldiers. Other subjects include former slaves and a panoramic view of the 1924 Colored World Series opening game.
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World War I Infantry soldiers, standing in front of photographers' backdrop. Between 1914 and 1918.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.11422
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The struggle for life by Louis Dalrymple. Published 1900 May 16.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.25421
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Many Puck Illustrations Digitized
Some 500 covers and centerfold cartoons from the humor magazine Puck spanning ca. 1890 to 1910 have so far been digitized and described. This growing body of images expands access to the cartoons, caricatures, and political satire offered in America's first successful humor magazine, while preserving the Library's fragile original copies.
View Puck images and descriptions
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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.
Opinionated Art: Artist Prints
Providing a window into the Library's fine art print collections, curators Martha Kennedy and Katherine Blood illustrate how artists' responses to the pressing political, social, and economic developments of their times form a strong current in the history of printmaking.
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Women Photojournalists Eleanor Butler Roosevelt
and Tina Modotti
Overviews of the lives and work of photojournalists Eleanor Butler Roosevelt (1889-1960) and Tina Modotti (1896-1942) have been added to the Women Photojournalists site.
View Eleanor Butler Roosevelt overview | View Tina Modotti overview |
Albums of Photographs, 1850-Present
An new reference aid provides an overview of P&P photograph album holdings and tips for researching these valuable visual resources. The more than 900 albums in P&P include a wide range of styles from the 1850s to the present.
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Symbols: Sources for Identifying and Deciphering
This annotated bibliography cites online and print resources for identifying and deciphering symbols, signs, and icons, as well as offering tips for locating additional sources of information.
View the bibliography |
Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
McClees' Gallery--Viewing Members of Congress on the Eve of the Civil War
P&P has already digitized and described all the rare, salted paper photographs in McClees' Gallery of Photographic Portraits of the Senators, Representatives & Delegates of the Thirty-fifth Congress. Published by James E. McClees in 1859, the volume provides portraits of many of the indivduals who would go on to become major players in the Civil War on both Union and Confederate sides.
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Sam Houston, Senator from Texas.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26824 |
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