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    Edward Burtynsky in the Wake of Progress: Images of the Indus... Celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky reviewed his 20-year career. His large-scale photographs of sites in the United States, Canada, Italy, Bangladesh, India and China are challenging. While they depict the degradation of nature due to quarrying, mining, railcutting, recycling, oil refining and ship breaking, they convey a sense of awe and beauty thus provoking a new awareness of the landscape of our time.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2003
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    Eisner on the Graphic Novel Will Eisner, universally acknowledged as one of the great masters of comic book art, discussed the graphic novel.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2003
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    A Sense of Place Pickney has been illustrating children's books since 1964. These include classics such as "Noah's Ark" (2003), "The Nightingale" (2002), "The Little Match Girl" (1999) and "John Henry" (1994).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2004
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    Barns The first in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Barns presents a broad, fresh, and newly informed visual analysis of one of America's fundamental building types.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. Publishing Office
    • Date: 2003
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    Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C. "Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress" was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Library. Edited by C. Ford Peatross, the Library's curator of architecture, design and engineering collections in the Prints and Photographs Division, "Capital Drawings" features drawings for some of Washington's most important buildings, monuments and memorials as well as anonymous structures...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2005
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    Theaters The Library of Congress and W.W. Norton & Company celebrated the publication of "Theaters" with a special program of music and entertainment. Featured were an illustrated overview of the book by the author, Craig Morrison; a performance by Ted van Griethuysen of the Shakespeare Theatre Company; a musical performance by Genevieve Williams featuring songs composed by Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Howard Dietz...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2005
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    A Digital Library of British Printed Images to 1700 Michael Hunter discusses a collaborative project with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London to produce a digital library of British printed images to 1700. The project, to be completed by 2009, will present online 12,000 images mainly from the holdings of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. A retrieval system is being constructed which will...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2007
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    Journals of a Pioneer Argonaut, Daniel Jenks Sara W. Duke, curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints & Photographs Division, uses unique drawings in the Library of Congress and other archival materials to tell the story of a pioneer who went west to search for gold in the mid-19th century.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    Oh No, It's Monday, and I've Run Out of Ideas": A Cartoonist'... Nicole Hollander, creator of the lively comic strip "Sylvia," humorously addressed the challenges of staying creative, based on her own artistic career and life.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2004
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    Oh No, It's Monday, and I've Run Out of Ideas": A Cartoonist'... A short reading by Nicole Hollander.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2004
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    150th Anniversary of the J&R Lamb Studios: Morning Session Art and architectural historians and design community insiders assembled at the Library of Congress for a symposium celebrating 150 years of J&R Lamb Studios, America's oldest continuously-run decorative arts firm, which preceded and influenced the studios of both John LaFarge and Louis C. Tiffany. The Library of Congress acquired the J&R Lamb Studios archives in 2003 to 2004. The collection contains company records and...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2007
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    150th Anniversary of the J&R Lamb Studios: Afternoon Session Art and architectural historians and design community insiders assembled at the Library of Congress for a symposium celebrating 150 years of J&R Lamb Studios, America's oldest continuously-run decorative arts firm, which preceded and influenced the studios of both John LaFarge and Louis C. Tiffany. The Library of Congress acquired the J&R Lamb Studios archives in 2003 to 2004. The collection contains company records and...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2007
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    The New Deal Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship, Part 1. The "New Deal" Franklin Delano Roosevelt had promised the American people began to take shape immediately after his inauguration on March 4, 1933. The multi-faceted social, cultural and fiscal recovery program aimed to reform and reinvigorate national life, and to end the Great Depression. Many New Deal administrators believed that art could be a part of the daily lives of all Americans, not just...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    The New Deal Legacy and Contemporary Scholarship, Part 2. The "New Deal" Franklin Delano Roosevelt had promised the American people began to take shape immediately after his inauguration on March 4, 1933. The multi-faceted social, cultural and fiscal recovery program aimed to reform and reinvigorate national life, and to end the Great Depression. Many New Deal administrators believed that art could be a part of the daily lives of all Americans, not just...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Music Division - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. National Audio-Visual Conservation Center - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2008
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    In Search of Africa at the Library of Congress: Collecting an... The African Section of the African & Middle Eastern Division and The Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress co-sponsor an illustrated lecture given by Sylivester Sennabulya.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    Israeli Comics of Past & Present Drawing both from Judeo-European and American cultures, comics have been a mainstay of Israeli newspapers and readers' markets since the early 1930s. Ofer Berenstein discusses these comics, little known outside the Middle East, that open an interesting window into Israeli society, past and present.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Serial & Government Publications Division - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    HABS: Celebrating the Past and Present (Morning Session) 2008 marked the 75th anniversary of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), America's first federal historic preservation program. The HABS mission is to create a public archive of America's architectural heritage, consisting of measured drawings, historical reports and large-format black-and-white photographs. Speakers for the morning session "Celebrating the Past and Present" were C. Ford Peatross, founding director of the Center for Architecture, Design and...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    HABS: Planning for the Future (Afternoon Session) 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), America's first federal historic preservation program. The HABS mission is to create a public archive of America's architectural heritage, consisting of measured drawings, historical reports and large-format black-and-white photographs. Speakers for the afternoon session "Planning for the Future" were Anne Weber, a senior associate with Farewell, Mills, Gatsch Architects in Princeton, N.J.;...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    Public Markets Public markets, with their small vendors selling locally-grown food and locally-made crafts, accentuate the qualities of a town and help build a sense of community. Helen Tangires, author of "Public Markets," discussed her book, which is a richly illustrated compendium of the wide variety of architectural structures devoted to the urban marketplace. Drawn from the Library's unparalleled collections, more than 800 photographs, architectural drawings,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2008
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    Walter Evans: Ten Favorite Books and Manuscripts in My Collec... Walter O. Evans, well known for his remarkable collection of 19th and 20th century African American artworks, has also assembled an extensive collection of more than 100,000 books and manuscripts. He has taken on the formidable task of selecting his favorite 10 to discuss at the Library of Congress. The talk is part of a planned series of events, through 2010, celebrating the 10th...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2010
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    Civil War Photographs: The Liljenquist Family Collection Close to 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. The Liljenquist Family sought out high quality images to represent the impact of the war, especially the young enlisted men. The photographs often show hats, firearms, canteens, musical instruments, painted backdrops, and other details that enhance the research value of the collection. Among the rarest images...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2010
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    Paolo Ventura: Winter Stories A conversation among Ventura; Denise Wolff and Renato Miracco. The book depicts scenes from the memory of an old circus performer as he looks back on his life. The event was co-sponsored by the Library's Prints and Photographs Division and Center for the Book, and the Embassy of Italy.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2010
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    Marvels 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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    About the FSA Collection Description of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. History of the New Deal photographic unit and its creation of documentary images from 1935 to 1943, which portray scenes of the Great Depression, farms and small town life, and the buildup of American industry for World War II.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2011
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    Learning from the FSA Collection Suggestions for using the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress to support research. Includes case studies of the photographic documentation of the tenant farm community of Gee's Bend in Alabama by Arthur Rothstein in 1937 and of the New Mexico Hispanic community of Las Trampas by John Collier in 1943.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2011
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    Sketching the Secret Tracts of the Child's Mind: Theorizing C... Lara Saguisag examines how early 20th-century comic strips that featured child protagonists revealed the nature of the child during that era.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2012
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    Sakura: Cherry Blossoms as a Living Symbol of Friendship Members of the Library's team for "Sakura: Cherry Blossom as Living Symbols of Friendship" exhibition lead a gallery tour while discussing the special collections that illuminate the history of Washington's landmark cherry trees, the significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, and their continuing resonance in American culture and for Washingtonians in particular. Dating from the 18th to 21st centuries, the collection highlights include exquisite...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2012
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    Ink 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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    How to View an Exhibition from a Hot Air Balloon: Nadar at th... An examination of comic drawings about French Salon paintings created by the famous photographer Nadar (a.k.a. Felix Tournachon, 1820-1910).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Every Photo Is a Story Part 1: Start to Read a Photograph In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century. In Part One, Finefield and Watters discuss how to read photographs and develop visual literacy skills.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Every Photo Is a Story Part 2: Get to Know the Photographer In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century. In Part Two, Finefield and Watters discuss researching the photographer's life and career, and the research benefits of knowing more about the person behind...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Every Photo Is a Story Part 3: Consider How the Photos Were Made In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century. In Part Three, Finefield and Watters discuss influences on the photographic object itself, including camera and film technology, manipulations made after the fact, and...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Every Photo Is a Story Part 4: Explore the Photographer's Era In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century. In Part Four, Finefield and Watters discuss researching the era in which a photograph was made in order to discover events and movements that...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    Every Photo Is a Story Part 5: Interpret the Stories You Dis... In this five-part series, Kristi Finefield and Sam Watters discuss the ways to uncover the story in photographs, specifically a series of hand-colored lantern slides of historic gardens and homes created by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the early 20th century. In Part Five, Finefield and Watters discuss stories behind the photographs of the Blue Garden discussed throughout the series. All of the tools and...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2013
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    With Their Own Eyes: Photographers Witness the March on Washi... A group of eminent photographers -- including Bob Adelman, Theresa Lynn Carter (daughter of Roosevelt Carter), Brigitte Freed (widow of Leonard Freed), and David Johnson -- remember the 1963 March on Washington in commemoration of its 50th anniversary.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Persian Mystical Literature: The Marriage of Poetry & Music Fatemeh Keshavarz from the University of Maryland and Jessika Kenney from the Cornish College of the Arts discussed Persian mystical literature as part of a lecture series accompanying the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" exhibition.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Empty Sleeves & Bloody Shirts: Disabled Civil War Veterans & ... Erin Corrales-Diaz examined political cartoons that interpreted war-induced disability during and after the American Civil War.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Acquisition of David Seymour's Spanish Civil War Photos This program observes the 103rd anniversary of the birth of David Seymour, whose pen name is CHIM, one of the best-known photojournalists of the 20th century, and celebrates the donation of 112 of his photographs, primarily showing the Spanish Civil War.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2014
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    Rosa Parks: Beyond the Bus Three associates of Rosa Parks give first-hand accounts of Mrs. Parks' life and legacy after her historical arrest.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2015
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    That's Not Funny! Cartooning in a Charlie Hebdo World Cartoonists Signe Wilkinson and Ann Telnaes share their perspectives on the art of political cartooning and show examples of their own work.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life ... Sheila McCauley Keys discussed her memoir, "Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons," covering both the public and private lives of the Civil Rights icon.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Center for the Book - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Prints & Photographs at the Library of Congress A conversation with Barbara Natanson on the prints and photographs collections at the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Visions of Liberty Photographer Bob Adelman joined Ira Glasser in a program reflecting on the ongoing struggle for human rights in America.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (U.S.) - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2015
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    Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca: Juan Felipe H... Juan Felipe Herrera discusses graphic art from Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca as well as his own drawing/artist book from his "Automatika" series, with Library fine prints curator Katherine Blood. Watch the webcast and read a poem response from the Poet Laureate.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. Literary Initiatives Office
    • Date: 2016
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    What Makes Architectural Photography Different Noted architectural photographer Norman McGrath discusses the unique approaches and styles to architectural photography.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Washington D.C. Witness Trees Paul Dolinsky discusses Washington's Witness Trees, trees that have stood witness to historic events.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Tracking Time: Twin Towers & Motor City Camilo Jose Vergara, who has spent a career photographing the evolution of poor, minority neighborhoods in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and California, discusses his work concerning two of these locales: lower Manhattan and Detroit.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Bonsai: Another Special Gift of Trees from Japan In 1976, Japan presented 53 bonsai trees to the United States as a Bicentennial gift. The trees led to the founding of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum, which was later augmented by bonsai from China, North America and elsewhere. Three authors discussed how the national collection of bonsai inspired their books.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2017
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    The Comics of Anke Feuchtenberger & Their Many Expressionisms Elizabeth Nijdam discussed the comic art of the East German-born artist Anke Feuchtenberger in the context of her artistic training and the political climate in which she developed.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2017
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    Designing the Future Landscape: Digital Architecture, Design ... To advance knowledge sharing, documentation, and promotion of best practices for long-term sustainability and interoperability of digital architecture, design and engineering (ADE) assets for design and the built environment, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the Architect of the Capitol hosted a day-long symposium that offered thematic discussions on these challenging topics. With contributions from various stakeholders in the ADE...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2017
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    Designing the Future Landscape: Digital Architecture, Design ... To advance knowledge sharing, documentation, and promotion of best practices for long-term sustainability and interoperability of digital architecture, design and engineering (ADE) assets for design and the built environment, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the Architect of the Capitol hosted a day-long symposium offering thematic discussions on these challenging topics. With contributions from various stakeholders in the ADE communities,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2017
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    Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists Illustrators Whitney Sherman, Barbara Brandon-Croft and Jillian Tamaki, all highlighted in the Library's current exhibition and book "Drawn to Purpose," discuss their craft.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2018
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    75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking The Library of Congress celebrated the 1,000th issue of seminal DC comic book series, "Action Comics" and commemorated 80 years of Superman with an interview featuring personnel of DC Comics. Former publisher and president Paul Levitz joined DC writer and artist Dan Jurgens (known for his work on the Superman series "The Death of Superman") for a conversation about the history of superhero comics,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2018
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    Cherry Blossom Poster Process In 2017, the Library received a gift of 25 historical posters from the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Thomas Burns, creator of the 2016 National Cherry Blossom Festival poster, talks about the poster including his design process and ideas.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
    • Date: 2018
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    The Hidden Value of Early Photographic Technology Manuals: Ma... From daguerreotype plates to silver gelatin papers, 19th-century manufacturers supplied photographers with materials to produce photographic images. But because so few of these papers are identifiable, the history of these manufacturers and their materials are untraceable and virtually unknown. Within the Library of Congress' vast holdings of photographic technology manuals, original 19th-century samples of identified photographic papers survive. Senior Photographic Conservator Adrienne Lundgren discusses...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. Preservation Directorate
    • Date: 2018
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    A Picture of Humanity
    • Contributor: Brannan, Beverly
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    A Legend is Born
    • Contributor: Duke, Sarah W.
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    The Changing Face of Washington D.C. through the U.S. News an... Kristi Finefield, Reference Specialist, will take you on a tour of 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Washington, D.C. through the lens of staff photographers for U.S. News & World Report (USN & WR) Magazine. A collection of nearly 1.2 million photographs dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, the USN & WR Magazine Photograph Collection not only provides images of the news and political activities...
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Finefield, Kristi
    • Date: 2022-02-03
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    Not an Ostrich and Other Images from America's Library Join us for a sneak-peek at the Library of Congress's upcoming exhibition, "Not an Ostrich: and Other Images from America's Library". Photography curator Micah Messenheimer looks at Doris Ulmann's striking portrait of Maum Duck, made for a book about formerly-enslaved people in South Carolina's Gullah community. Curator Adam Silvia talks about photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, shown courageously holding her camera in one of the eagles...
    • Contributor: Messenheimer, Micah - Silvia, Adam
    • Date: 2022-03-03
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    Not an Ostrich and Other Images from America's Library A preview of the new exhibit "Not an Ostrich and Other Images from America's Library" was held for members of friends of the Library of Congress, alumni, corporate and foundation Donors, and volunteers to get a first look at the exhibit before it opened to the public.
    • Contributor: Zinkham, Helena - Farmer, Sharon - Brannan, Beverly - Sodini, Lora - Hayden, Carla
    • Date: 2022-03-22
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    Not an Ostrich Media Preview A preview of the new exhibit "Not an Ostrich and Other Images from America's Library" was held for representatives of media outlets to get a first look at the exhibit before it opened to the public.
    • Contributor: Zinkham, Helena - Farmer, Sharon - Wetzel, Rachel - Highsmith, Carol - Hayden, Carla
    • Date: 2022-03-22
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    Finding Pictures: Deaf History Month Join us reach people who may or may not be familiar with the Library's collections and provide an interesting and also encouraging introduction.
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Dodson, Derrick - Richey, Pete - Kays, Ellen
    • Date: 2022-04-21
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    Exploring Cherry Blossom Varieties How many varieties of cherry blossoms can you find in your neighborhood? How do you describe their colors? Nakahara will offer a close-up exploration of exquisite watercolor illustrations of the 1912 gift of cherry blossom trees from the city of Tokyo to Washington, D.C. to increase your visual recognition of cherry blossoms each spring.
    • Contributor: Blood, Katherine - Nakahara, Mari - Leventhal, Aliza
    • Date: 2022-04-06
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    Seasonal Appreciations in Japanese Visual Art Jewel-toned woodblocks from the Library's Japanese print collection reflect recurring seasonal celebrations of springtime cherry blossoms, summer fireflies, bright autumn foliage, winter snow, and more. Katherine Blood, co-author of the book, "Cherry Blossom: Sakura Collections from the Library of Congress" will highlight 18th century to contemporary examples, including related, recently acquired prints, drawings, and posters.
    • Contributor: Blood, Katherine - Nakahara, Mari - Leventhal, Aliza
    • Date: 2022-04-08
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    2022 National Cherry Blossom Festival While the 1912 gift of cherry blossom trees from the city of Tokyo to Washington, D.C. is an enduring symbol of the U.S.-Japan friendship, former Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito also played an important role in our friendship in the 1930s. Mari Nakahara, co-author of the book, "Cherry Blossom: Sakura Collections from the Library of Congress" will introduce the Library collections related to Ambassador Saito.
    • Contributor: Blood, Katherine - Nakahara, Mari - Kagei, Tomiko
    • Date: 2022-04-07
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    Gadgets in the Harris and Ewing Collection The photograph collection of Washington, D.C.-based photography studio Harris & Ewing, active during the first half of the 20 century, contains a surprising number of images showing gadgets. These include new inventions, updated technology, and devices created by the federal government to test or produce goods and services. In this talk, we will explore some of these gadgets, including some unidentified mysteries that you...
    • Contributor: Eaker, Jon
    • Date: 2022-05-05
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    Orientation to the Collections of the Prints & Photographs Di... This general orientation session highlights a wide range of pictorial formats and subject matter. It will focus especially on digital images available to all patrons, even those far from the Library's buildings. Topics covered will include search tips and tricks, research and collection guides, ways to engage with the collections online, and how to prepare for a future trip to the Prints & Photographs...
    • Contributor: Scheppele, Tori - Brubacher, Ryan
    • Date: 2022-06-14
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    The Work Projects Administration Poster Collection This collection is a Library favorite and totals over 900 posters that put artists back to work for travel, tourism, recreation, and public health programs among others. The presentation will discuss collection history, the different types of posters you can find, and how to download high-resolution images.
    • Contributor: Soltys, Hanna
    • Date: 2022-07-07
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    Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico is a presentation by Rosalía Romero, a Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at Pomona College and a 2020 Swann Fellow awardee at the Library of Congress. Her talk examines the role anarchism played in debates about the aesthetics of modern art in Mexico. The Swann Foundation Fellowship, administered by the Library since...
    • Contributor: Romero, Rosalía
    • Date: 2022-07-18
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    The Peregrinations of Harlequin Mungo: Jamaican Performances ... Swann Fellow, Dr. Monica Anke Hahn, assistant professor of art history at the Community College of Philadelphia, presents works from the British Cartoon Prints collection with Jamaicans as their subject - the enslaved people from Africa and their descendants, the white planters who enslaved them, and the "creole" descendants of planters, born on the island.
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Hahn, Monica
    • Date: 2022-08-24
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    Finding Pictures: Latina/Latino Graphic Art & Artists Watch a visual exploration of dynamic contemporary artist prints, posters, and drawings from the Library's collections. Hispanic Reading Room reference librarian Maria Daniela Thurber and Prints & Photographs Division curator Katherine Blood will feature the newly-digitized and catalogued Mission Gráfica/La Raza Graphics collection and artist prints and posters from such collectives as Dignidad Rebelde and Self Help Graphics.
    • Contributor: Blood, Katherine - Thurber, Maria Daniela
    • Date: 2022-08-17
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    Fan Art as a Record of Popular Culture People have been making fan art for as long as there has been media to be a fan of. From the Shakespeare fandom among 19th century Pre-Raphaelite artists to the international phenomenon of the Dark Souls games of the 2010s, the proliferation of fan art for these works reflects their cultural impact. In this video, we explore the research value of fan art using...
    • Contributor: McCready, Maggie
    • Date: 2022-06-02
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    Landscapes Through the Lens of Laura Gilpin In this Object Lesson, join Curator Micah Messenheimer to explore how Gilpin both drew on and broke from tradition to present a deeply human landscape through the lens of her camera. Among the foremost American photographers of the 20th century, Laura Gilpin made landscapes that varied from evocative, fog-shrouded views of Garden of the Gods in her hometown of Colorado Springs to sharp and...
    • Contributor: Messenheimer, Micah
    • Date: 2022-08-04
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    Imperial Projections: Witnessing the War of 1898 in American ... Swann Fellow Ramey Mize describes her research into the ways that technologies of violence, vision, and image-making intersected with the Battles of Santiago and San Juan Hill in the War of 1898. Firsthand sketches by William Glackens reflect a dissonance between the eyewitness claims of artists and the calculated erasure of Cuba's Liberation Army. Sent to the Cuban front by McClure's Magazine, Glackens chronicled...
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Mize, Ramey
    • Date: 2022-08-15
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    Finding Pictures: The 125th Anniversary of the Thomas Jeffers... In this video we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. We explore the 1897 building through a selection of nearly 1,000 newly-digitized architectural drawings dating from the Jefferson Building's design and construction as well as related photos and other visual materials.
    • Contributor: Finefield, Kristi
    • Date: 2022-11-03
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    Finding Pictures: Robert Blackburn's Early Color Lithographs Robert Blackburn (1920-2003) was a MacArthur Award-winning artist, master printer and teacher who changed the course of American art through his innovative graphic work. His legendary Printmaking Workshop studio became a mecca for talented artists from around the country and world; their artworks attest to Blackburn's enduring vision and are now a part of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop collection at the Library of...
    • Contributor: Nosek, Basia - Blood, Katherine
    • Date: 2022-11-16
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    Finding Pictures: Our Digital Collections - Each Image Has It... Each digital image in the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division has its own origin story and workflow to becoming available on the Library of Congress website. What defines an image as born digital and how do we approach digitizing negatives? Digital Library Specialist Taren Ouellette will guide you through the highlights of these activities from the Farm Security Administration and Carol M....
    • Contributor: Ouellette, Taren - Mahoney, Gillian
    • Date: 2022-12-21
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    Finding Pictures: Happy 100th Birthday, Victor A. Lundy In this virtual presentation, Donna Kacmar, FAIA, professor at the University of Houston, and editor of "Victor Lundy: Artist Architect", will share highlights from the collection in a discussion of Lundy's "awareness of materiality and structural form, and his ability to design with light and evoke the spirit of the time."
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Nakahara, Mari - Kacmar, Donna
    • Date: 2023-01-18
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    Lens on American History: Japanese American World War II Inca... Watch an overview of notable collections in the Library's prints and photographs collections, giving special attention to connections we have made to identify people in the photos and provide more context on their experiences. President Franklin Roosevelt's February 19, 1942 Executive Order 9066 resulted in the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. The Library's collections are rich in...
    • Contributor: Messenheimer, Micah - Chittenden, Kara
    • Date: 2023-02-15
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    Visual Culture and the Black Experience in Nineteenth-Century... Jessica Larson was among the Swann Fellow awardees selected in 2022 to speak at the Library. Her project, "Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857-1914," examines the architecture of charitable and reform institutions built to serve Black aid recipients in Manhattan between the Civil War and World War I. Her interdisciplinary project involves the application of visual culture and the...
    • Contributor: Larson, Jessica - Duke, Sara
    • Date: 2023-03-22
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    Women in Photography: Stories from the Not an Ostrich Exhibition Photojournalist Sharon Farmer, the first woman and the first African American to be Director of the White House Photography office, and Anne Tucker, curator emerita at the Museum of Fine Arts, share stories about women photographers and their own work with the Library's exhibition, "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library".
    • Contributor: Zinkham, Helena - Farmer, Sharon - Tucker, Anne Wilkes
    • Date: 2023-03-16
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    Finding Pictures: In Celebration of National Arab American He... Celebrate National Arab American Heritage Month with a selection of pictures by and about the diverse Arab American community. Curator Sara W. Duke explores photographs, cartoons, and drawings that depict famous people, social life, traditions, and immersion into Arab American culture.
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara
    • Date: 2023-04-19
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    Finding Pictures: Going to Bat for Library Collections Baseball history can be found in many divisions at the Library of Congress, but this online orientation will focus on finding visual materials specifically in Prints & Photographs. Featuring amateur, recreational, professional, and even congressional baseball, this video will include searching tools and discuss collections teaming with baseball visuals.
    • Contributor: Soltys, Hanna
    • Date: 2023-03-29
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    Finding Pictures: Seeing in 3D - Stereographs at the Library ... Photography curators Micah Messenheimer and Michelle Smiley present a three-dimensional view into the Prints & Photographs collections.
    • Contributor: Smiley, Michelle - Messenheimer, Micah
    • Date: 2023-05-17
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    The Fight for Free Expression: Defending Cartoonists Around t... Criminalized for speaking truth to power, displaced from their homes by authoritarian regimes, abused or worse for lampooning the powerful, cartoonists are forced to contend with an ever-more hostile global environment. Join award-winning campaigner Terry Anderson and a panel of experts to learn more about the global trends threatening cartoonists, and why satirical art matters. Learn about the efforts of the Cartoonist Rights to...
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara - Kallaugher, Kevin - Mazer, Roslyn - Bowman, Alexandra - Anderson, Terry - Rottman, Gabe
    • Date: 2023-05-23
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    Eco-Activism and Education in Children's Graphic Narratives Brianna Anderson, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, was among the Swann Fellow awardees selected in 2022 to speak at the Library. Her project, "Greening the Gutters: Visualizing Environmental Disaster and Youth Eco-Activism in Children's Comics," uses posters, cartoon drawings, small press comics, and zines to understand the way in which visual culture engages audiences and inspires them to...
    • Contributor: Anderson, Brianna - Duke, Sara
    • Date: 2023-05-17
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    Finding Pictures: I Want You to Learn About the Library's Pos... Watch an overview of the poster holdings in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. See collection highlights and learn how to use the collection in-person and online.
    • Contributor: Grenci, Jen
    • Date: 2023-07-19
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    Finding Pictures: Looking Closely, Visual Literacy with Print... What do you see? Deepening what we can learn from visual materials is as easy as asking simple questions. Drawing on examples from photography to architectural drawings, Prints & Photographs Division staff will lead attendees through exercises in close looking - audience participation is encouraged! Explore how taking a good look can help even non-experts learn more about images for work, school and play.
    • Contributor: Mahoney, Gillian - Brubacher, Ryan
    • Date: 2023-06-21
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    Finding Pictures: Illustrating Civil War Medicine From the visible wounds inflicted by the newly-developed mini ball to the invisible spread of disease, the American Civil War's effects on combatants, their loved ones, and those charged with their care, were both visible and invisible. This webinar explains how photographers, printmakers, and eye-witness sketch artists picture the vast and complicated arena of medical care during the deadliest military conflict in U.S. history.
    • Contributor: Smiley, Michelle - Eaker, Jon
    • Date: 2023-09-20
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    Finding Pictures: Presidential Pets Dogs, cats, horses, cows - as well as far more unusual animals - have called the White House and its grounds home over the last two centuries. Watch a visual tour of the menagerie of animals that have been Presidential Pets, with images selected from the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division.
    • Contributor: Finefield, Kristi
    • Date: 2023-10-18
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    Europe and the Middle East through the Lens of David "Chim" S... Photojournalist David "Chim" Seymour (1911-1956) was a leading contributor to human-interest reportage of the mid-20th century, documenting the turmoil of war across Europe and the Middle East and conveying hope for a peaceful future. Earlier this year Chim's nephew, Ben Shneiderman, built upon the David "Chim" Seymour photograph collection at the Library of Congress by donating an additional 173 of his uncle's pictures. Shneiderman...
    • Contributor: Shneiderman, Ben
    • Date: 2023-10-25
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    Finding Pictures: Celebrating 90 Years of the Historic Americ... The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS, est. 1933) is the nation's first federal preservation program to document America's architectural heritage. This effort, later joined by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER, est. 1969) and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS, est. 2000), is administered through the National Park Service. The series in combination have recorded America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprising drawings, photographs...
    • Contributor: Lavoie, Catherine - Brubacher, Ryan
    • Date: 2023-11-15
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    Finding Pictures: Cartoon Cavalcade The Library of Congress has amassed a collection of 140,000 cartoon prints and drawings over the past 150 years, including political cartoons, comic strip and comic book illustrations, gag cartoons and animation cels. Join Sara W. Duke, the Library's curator of popular and applied graphic art, for an insider's perspective of the wealth of cartoon art in the collections of the Library. While the...
    • Contributor: Duke, Sara W.
    • Date: 2023-12-20
  • Film, Video
    Subject Indexing for Pictures: The Thesaurus for Graphic Mate... Antoinette O'Bryant and Libby McKiernan discuss subject indexing using the Library Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials. You will learn how to describe images using topical index terms, how these terms can help you search for pictures in the Library's online catalog and ways you can use the Thesaurus for personal or work collections. You will also have an opportunity to index some images from...
    • Contributor: O'Bryan, Antoinette - McKiernan, Libby
    • Date: 2024-01-17
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    Highlights from the Robert H. McNeill Family Collection Archivist Leah Rios and photography curator Kate Fogle highlight the career of African American photographer Robert H. McNeill (1917-2005), who documented 20th-century African American leadership and life in Washington D.C from the 1930s-1970s. They will explore the newly processed Robert H. McNeill Family Collection and will touch on McNeill's family photographs and albums, local portraiture and photojournalism from operating his freelance news service in...
    • Contributor: Rios, Leah - Fogle, Kate
    • Date: 2024-02-21
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    Eliza Scidmore, Trailblazing Journalist In celebration of Women's History Month, join author Diana P. Parsell as she discusses her recent book "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" with Library specialists Elizabeth A. Novara and Mari Nakahara.
    • Contributor: Parsell, Diana P. - Nakahara, Mari - Novara, Elizabeth
    • Date: 2024-03-05
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    Were They So Torturous? Reevaluating Modern Surgery's Underdo... The Swann Fellow Lecture focuses on caricature and cartoon. Zoe Copeman, Ph.D. candidate in art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland, argues the history of surgery often discusses the field's rise from barbaric vocation to distinguished discipline, playing up the "torturous tools" early modern surgeons used to illustrate how far modern surgery has come. Drawing from the Library of Congress's 18th- and...
    • Contributor: Copeman, Zoe
    • Date: 2024-03-12
  • Film, Video
    What to Pack for a Solar Eclipse Expedition in the Late 1800s Two Library specialists -- head of science reference JJ Harbster and historian Joshua Levy -- look at a photo album more than a century old, compiled during an expedition to see a solar eclipse in on the coast of Angola in 1889. Looking through the album, the experts talk about what the sailors and scientists packed for the arduous journey to see the eclipse...
    • Contributor: Levy, Joshua - Harbster, Jj
    • Date: 2024-04-03
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    The Warren and Margot Coville Collection of Photographs from ... Warren Coville describes his experience collecting works by photographers associated with this influential, but historically under-appreciated school. Joining him is Kathy Erwin, Curator of the Coville Collection.
    • Contributor: Coville, Warren - Erwin, Kathy
    • Date: 2001-10-11
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    Children of the Depression During the Depression, Roy Emerson Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section, hired some of the best photographers in the United States—including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Walcott, John Delano, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein—to record the state of the country during its direst days.
    • Contributor: Austin, Hilary Mac - Thompson, Kathleen
    • Date: 2002-02-12