Lititz, Pennsylvania. Self-portrait at a public sale. Marjory Collins. 1942 Nov. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USW3-011699-E. bibliographic record
Research with historical images, as with other types of historical materials, is a painstaking process that involves building
on background knowledge of a topic, as well as steady applications of intuition, in order to uncover what are often scattered
sources of evidence. The evidence must then be sifted and weighed in light of
what is known about the makers and the subjects of the images
the technical processes used to produce them
the purpose for which the given image or set of images was intended
Researchers will need to exercise both searching and interpretation skills in attempting to illuminate aspects of women's
history through the visual evidence. In their vastness and variety as well as in their sometimes intricate interconnections
with other types of material the Library of Congress holds, the Library's visual collections offer both challenge and
Hoyt's A contented woman. U.S. Printing Co. Copyright 1899. Prints and Photographs Division. POS-TH-1899.C65, no. 3 (C size). bibliographic record
enticement to researchers. The wealth of pictorial evidence stands to enrich our understanding of the role the country's rapidly
expanding image production played both in representing American women and in serving as sources of livelihood and creative
expression for American women.
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