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New Blog!: Picture This
Launched in August, our new blog invites you to share our love of pictures and the stories they can tell. Blog posts focus on images that caught our eyes, introductions to collections, behind-the-scenes peeks at how P&P staff manages a holdings in excess of 14 million images, news of upcoming events, and aspects of visual literacy. We're excited to have this means of two-way communication, with the added dimensions your comments can offer!
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"Sleep, baby, sleep." Drawing by Herblock, 1961
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hlb.05464
Female vocalist flanked by musicians. Drawing by John Held, 1927
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12960
| Graphic Arts Galleries: "Timely and Timeless" and Herblock
Ground Floor, Jefferson Building
"Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions " (Sept. 15, 2011-March 10, 2012 ) features political and social satire, comic-strip and comic-book drawings, New Yorker magazine illustrations and graphic narratives added to the collections during the past decade. The most recent rotation of drawings in the Herblock Gallery features ten cartoons representing the Cold War standoff between Kennedy and Khrushchev in 1961.
More information about "Timely and Timeless" (press release)
View the Herblock Gallery online exhibit
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Louise Rosskam Highlighted in American University Exhibition and Book
A major retrospective, "Inner Piece and Louise Rosskam," (Katzen Arts Center, Sept. 3-Dec. 14, 2011) examines photographer Louise Rosskam's contributions to the golden age of documentary photography, featuring her photos of Southwest Washington, D.C., neighborhoods as well as her images of Puerto Rico. The exhibition curators, Beverly Brannan and Laura Katz have also authored Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam.
Penn State Press (December 25, 2011).
More information about the exhibit (via American University site) 
More information about the book (via Penn State University Press site)
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Cover of Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam.
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| Visual Sourcebook on Railroad Stations
David Naylor chronicles the history and stylistic character of one of our nation's most iconic building types. Organized by region, this prolifically illustrated volume highlights waiting rooms and concourses, as well as architectural details in a wide array of stations across the U.S. The book represents a valuable addition to the Norton/Library of Congress series of Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering.
More information (via W.W. Norton site)
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Fields of Vision: Focus on Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, and Carl Mydans
Three new titles join the first six volumes in the series,
"Fields of Vision," featuring photographs made for the Farm Security Adminstration and Office of War Information. The 63-page, prolifically illustrated books highlight the work of Gordon Parks, the FSA's only African American photographer; Arthur Rothstein, its youngest photographer; and Carl Mydans, who joined the project after a stint at Time magazine.
More information (press release)
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Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Calendar of Events page
For information about the Flickr project, view the Flickr Project page.
Photographer in the Picture
Inspired by Flickr members who spotted a photographer caught in the headlights of George Grantham Bain's Stutz and another changing a glass negative way in the background of a news photo, our staff joined the hunt for photographers in reflections, in shadows, and in action. Flickr members responded with more suggestions from our collections, prompting us to post additional examples of women photographers at work and photos that offer perspective on the rigors of documenting the Civil War.
View the "Photographer in the Picture" Flickr set
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G.G.B. in Stutz, between 1910 and 1915 , showing Flickr member's note
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5642877465/ |
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Celebrate the Harvest: New Scans of Farm Security Administration Negatives are Well Underway!
Rescanning of the fragile Farm Security Administration (FSA) nitrate negatives is reaching critical mass: more than 29,000 negatives in the "LC-USF33" (35 mm negatives) series now have new high resolution scans. Enjoy the greater clarity and detail the new scans bring to online viewing of familiar images and many that were never printed by the Farm Security Administration. The best way to view the new images is to begin with a low LC-USF33 numbers and use the "browse neighboring items by call number" link.
View a sample of rescanned FSA negatives
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[Pitching bundles of rice from rack to wagon, Crowley, Louisiana]. Photo by Russell Lee, 1938 Sept.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a23687
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"Petrograd." Photograph in Pringle album, 1917 or 1918.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31322
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Photographs Taken During the Russian Revolution - Pringle Album
While on a business trip for the First National City Bank of New York, James Maxwell Pringle had an opportunity to photograph sites in Russia as the revolution unfolded between November 20, 1917 and March 1918. Locations in Russia include Moscow, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Vologda, Vereshchagina, and Novo Nikolaevsk. Pringle's return trip took him through Japan, China and Korea. Selected images from the album have been digitized.
View images the album | View album description |
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More Civil War Faces--Additions to the Liljenquist Collection
More than 60 additional photographs now appear in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs. Supplementing the initial set of 700+ ambrotypes and tintypes are additional depictions of families and Confederate soldiers, as well as Union sailors and soldiers.
View the additions to the Liljenquist Collection |
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform. Ambrotype, between 1861 and 1865.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31464
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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.
More Women Photojournalists
The contributions of women photojournalists from multiple generations are highlighted in four new overviews, covering the work of Emme and Mayme Gerhard, Louise Rosskam, Katherine Young, and Marilyn Nance.
View overviews: Gerhard sisters | Katherine Young | Louise Rosskam | Marilyn Nance |
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Newspaper Photograph Morgues
This resource list cites more than forty public institutions in the United States and Canada that hold newspaper photograph morgues.
View the reference aid |
Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
George Stacy Stereoviews and Cartes de Viste
George Stacy operated a photography business in New York City during the 1860s. Stacy is best known for his 1861 views of Union troops at Fortress Monroe (Virginia). Although Virginia withdrew from the Union, Fortress Monroe remained in Union hands for the duration of the war. The acqusition includes more than 1,000 stereograph views and cartes de visite made between 1858 and 1870 and document scenes in New York City and parts of New York State, as well as the Civil War. More than fifty stereograph cards from the Civil War era have been digitized.
View digitized stereographs | View collection description |
Fortress Monroe, camp scene. Photographed by George Stacy between 1861 and 1865
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s01794 |
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