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Film, VideoPoster Mania in Turn-of-the-Century Paris In the 1880s and 1890s, illustrated posters displayed on walls throughout Paris were accused of turning the city into a bazaar and mounting an aggressive assault on the eyes and souls of passersby. Kluge Fellow Karen Carter examines "poster mania," a topic of late 19th-century commentary that linked the viewing of publicity to pathology and madness. French writers appropriated the concepts of hypnosis and...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2008
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Film, VideoStephan Pastis: 2015 National Book Festival Cartoonist Stephan Pastis appears at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - National Book Festival (U.S.)
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoCooperation in Black & White: Innovative Alliances in the Retail Grocery Trade Beginning in the 1890s through the 1930s, independent grocers (white and black) formed a variety of innovative alliances--cartels, buying syndicates, and cooperatives--to navigate major changes within the trade. Through organizations like the Boston Wholesale Grocers' Association, Independent Grocers' Alliance, Red & White Stores, and Colored Merchants' Association, small businessmen formulated alternative ways of dealing and distributing goods, challenged chain stores, and created new entrepreneurial...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoPresidential Campaign Posters Along with every presidential campaign there are great campaign posters. There are also ridiculous ones. In "Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art" editors and curators of the Library of Congress have mined the institution's extraordinary collections for 100 posters, from the campaigns of Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Publishing Office
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoThe Art of Splendor: Islamic Luxury Goods A lecture with illustrations the author of Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2004
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Film, VideoInk and Pixel: A Cartoon View of Campaign 2012 Editorial cartoonists from the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Pocho.com discuss the highlights and challenges of creating cartoons, representing opinions from both left and right of center, during the 2012 presidential campaign.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoRosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II Sheridan Harvey explores the evolution of "Rosie the Riveter"and discusses the lives of real women workers in World War II.
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2003
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Film, VideoMarvels of Roadside & Main Street America: John Margolies The eccentric landmarks glimpsed on a road trip through a car window and the changing commercial vistas on familiar hometown streets can reveal much about America's past and present. John Margolies has made a life's work of documenting and sharing such monuments and environments in photographs, packed lectures and popular books. Scholars of design, photography, commercial vernacular and automotive culture gathered at the Library...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoAnimals, Inc Gallup Organization executives Kenneth A. Tucker and Vandana Allman discussed their new book, "Animals, Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21st Century."
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book
- Date: 2004
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Film, VideoGateway to Knowledge Travelling Exhibition A specially-designed 18-wheel truck brought treasures and information from the Library of Congress into cities and towns across America. Beginning in September 2010, the "Gateway to Knowledge" rolling exhibition visited sites in states across the Midwest, South, and Northeast through September 2011, concluding its tour where it began, at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. The truck, staffed and driven by two docents...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoFifty years of Coca-Cola television advertisements highlights from the motion picture archives at the Library of Congress
Coca-Cola television advertisements Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Presents television advertisements, outtakes, and experimental footage documenting the historical developments of television advertising for the Coca-Cola carbonated beverage. Includes stop-motion advertising developed between 1954 and 1956; excerpts from the Experimental TV Color Project of 1964; historical, biographical, and finding aid information; timeline; and selected bibliography.- Contributor: Coca-Cola Company - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2000