What's New in the Prints & Photographs
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June - September 2008
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Publications & Events
150th Anniversary of the J&R Lamb Studios (Webcast)
Celebrating the oldest decorative arts firm in continuous operation in the United States, this Nov. 28, 2007, event featured illustrated presentations by Elizabeth Terry, curatorial assistant, and Donald Samick, current owner of the studio (Morning session); Tom Seeley, son of archive donor; and Virginia Raguin, professor of art history at the College of Holy Cross (Afternoon session).
View webcast: Morning session | Afternoon session |
J. & R. Lamb Studios, designer. Design drawing for stained glass window called Arts Education, Froelich Memorial Window, [before 1928].
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/lambdc.07383
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Opening the Photo Vaults (Webcast)
Library of Congress staff from the Prints and Photographs Division, Office of Strategic Initiatives, and Information Technology Services -- along with George Oates from Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site and Web 2.0 innovator -- describe the pilot project in which the Library has mounted photographs on the Flickr Web site to enhance discovery and gather input.
View webcast | More information about the project |
Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthasar Korab Archive published
David G. De Long, with C. Ford Peatross, Director of the Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering, co-edited this sourcebook, which illustrates nineteen Eero Saarinen commissions. Korab's photographs provide multiple views of the buildings, their construction, and the models that were critical to their design.
Full citation:
Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthasar Korab Archive. Ed. by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
More information (W.W. Norton site)
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Public Markets: A Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook published
In this richly illustrated compendium of the wide variety of buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace, author Helen Tangires includes more than 800 historical and contemporary photographs, architectural drawings, maps, and posters.
Full citation:
Helen Tangires. Public Markets: A Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
More information (W.W. Norton site) |
Cartoon collections featured in American Art
Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art, provided a well-illustrated discussion of the Library's cartoon and caricature holdings in her article, "Drawing (Cartoons) from Artistic Traditions," which appears in a recent issue of American Art.
Full citation: Martha H. Kennedy, "Drawing (Cartoons) from Artistic Traditions," American Art 22 (Spring 2008): 10-15. |
Anatol Kovarsky, artist. Modern art museum, 1957.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52909
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Graphic Materials 2nd Edition with RBMS sponsorship
The ACRL/RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee has agreed to develop a second edition of Graphic Materials as part of the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials suite. It will provisionally be known as "Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)," or DCRM(G). This work-in-progress can be seen at http://dcrmg.pbwiki.com.
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Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Master Drawings category added to Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Descriptions for the 5,000 original drawings in the Master Drawings Collection can now be searched in the online catalog. The collection represents drawings in diverse styles and media, primarily dating between 1830 and 1930. Most are by American artist Joseph Pennell, with notable drawings by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Rockwell Kent, Jean François Millet, and many other artists. Some records are accompanied by digital images.
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Joseph Pennell, artist. Out of my London window: dome and spires and chimneys, mist and smoke, [between 1890 and 1923]
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12020
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Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer. Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. 1911 January.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.01138 |
National Child Labor Committee/Lewis Hine photographs - more subject access
Thanks to the work of volunteer interns, these evocative photographs of working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924 are more readily retrievable by their subject matter. Students
from Catholic University of America, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and other colleges and universities, trained in subject indexing with Karen Chittenden, P&P cataloger, over a period of four years, adding subject headings to more than 5,000 catalog records.
View subjects represented in the National Child Labor Committee Photographs |
Reference information is available from
the Information
for Researchers, Lists
of Images on Popular Topics and Collection
Guides and Finding Aids pages.
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Cartoon Drawings - An Overview
Features background information and a summary of the strengths of the Cartoon Drawings series, which includes more than 9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present.
View collection information (via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
Pictorial Americana Additions
Eighteen more chapters are available
for this Web site offering
selections originally made for
a 1955 publication, Pictorial
Americana: A Select List of Photographic
Negatives in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. Recently
added lists feature images relating
to: U.S. Congress, Uniforms, Waterworks, and views of locations in the United States, organized by state. The lists include suggestions for locating additional images on the topic.
View Pictorial
Americana table of contents |
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Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon - Overview Updated
A summary of the strengths of this collection of 2,085 drawings, prints, and paintings that span the years 1780 to 1977, together with links to related resources.
View collection information (via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
Items from the Prints & Photographs
Division are well represented in the
following Library of Congress exhibitions. A
full list of Library of Congress exhibitions
is available on the Exhibitions
page.
San Xavier del Bac Mission, Main Facade and Front Entrance, Tucson Vicinity, Arizona. Photo by Donald W. Dickensheets, 1940. Historic American Buildings Survey.
HABS ARIZ, 10 - TUCSO, V, 3-19
| American Place: The Historic American Buildings Survey at 75 Years
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum
1849 C Street, NW, first floor
Washington, D.C.
July 23 - November 14, 2008
Marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of America’s first federal historic preservation program, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service.
More information (HABS site)
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Herblock's Presidents: "Puncturing Pomposity" (National Portrait Gallery)
National Portrait Gallery
May 2 - Nov. 30, 2008
Herbert Lawrence Block—the political cartoonist who drew under the pen-name "Herblock"—appeared in American newspapers for more than seven decades. His particular interest in depicting American presidents is featured in this exhibition that displays Block's presidential cartoons that appeared in the Washington Post for 56 years.
More information (NPG site)
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Herblock, artist. "We're really making great progress." 1974 November 1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17211
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
Of Related Interest
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Exhibition at the National Building Museum:
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
May 3, 2008 - August 23, 2008
The "first full retrospective of Saarinen's career, as well as a rare glimpse of the man behind the landmarks."
More information (National Building Museum site) |
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