What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
February - May 2008
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Publications & Events
Ellen
Berg presents talk: Where
Have You Gone, Miss Columbia? American
Identity and Uncle
Sam’s
Forgotten Partner
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at
12 noon
Dining Room A, James
Madison Building, 6th floor
Co-sponsored by the Swann Foundation for Caricature
and Cartoon and the Prints and Photographs Division
An illustrated public lecture
by Dr. Ellen Berg, recipient of
a Swann Foundation Fellowship,
2007-2008. |
Joseph E. Baker, artist. Columbia
Demands Her Children, 1864.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.15768
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Library
of Congress shares photos on Flickr
This is a welcome opportunity
to share some of our most popular
images with a new visual community.
We invite tags and comments on
the photos, as well as identifying
information.
More
information |
Prudence Peiffer presents
talk: How to Look at Ad Reinhardt's
World War II Cartoons in America
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at
12 noon
Dining Room A, James
Madison Building, 6th floor
Co-sponsored by the Swann Foundation
for Caricature and Cartoon and
the Prints and Photographs Division
An illustrated public lecture
by Prudence Peiffer, recipient
of a Swann Foundation Fellowship,
2007-2008. |
Tree of Intemperance. Published
by N. Currier, 1849.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b50964
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Biographical essays
contributed to the Encyclopedia
of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Carol Johnson, Curator of Photography,
contributed biographical essays
about Mathew Brady,
Robert Cornelius, the
Kilburn Brothers, and
Augustus Washington in this recently published encyclopedia.
Full citation:
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century
Photography. Ed. John Hannavy.
New York: Taylor & Francis
Group, 2007.
More
information |
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Aeronautical and
Astronautical Resources of the
Library of Congress
Elisabeth Betz Parker, former
Assistant Chief and current volunteer
in the Prints & Photographs Division,
contributed a chapter to this new
guide, describing resources available
in the Prints & Photographs Division.
Full citation:
Ronald S. Wilkinson, John F. Buydos,
et al. Aeronautical and Astronautical
Resources of the Library of Congress:
A Comprehensive Guide.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress,
2007.
View
press release | View Ordering
Information |
Thesaurus
for Graphic Materials (TGM)
new edition, new interface!
TGM editors in P&P
have now integrated the more than
7,000 subject terms and 650 genre/format
terms into a single list for indexing
visual materials. In the process,
the thesaurus migrated to a new
software that enables users
to download the thesaurus for local
use or to view thesaurus terms,
relationships, and notes about
usage through the
Prints & Photographs
Online Catalog, with links to pictures
that have been indexed with the
subject, genre, and format terms.
More
information |
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Clockwise
from upper left: Hilary Mac Austin
and Kathleen Thompson discussing Children
of the Depression; Mary
Mundy talking about cataloging
born-digital images; John Vlach
discussing his publication, Barns;
Comic Book Artists and Illustrators
and 9/11 panel discussion. | Webcasts
Webcasts
of public programs relating to
Prints & Photographs Division
activities and collections are now
available. Includes presentations
by artists, presentations relating
to P&P collections, and presentations
relating to visual librarianship.
Recently added: The Photographs of
Marilyn Nance. |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Carol
M. Highsmith Photos of Library
of Congress Buildings
More than 400 color digital images
show in sharply detailed photographs
the Thomas Jefferson Building from
the floor of the Great Hall to the
dome of the Main Reading Room, as
well as the architecture of the John
Adams and James Madison Buildings.
View images:
Jefferson
Building | Adams
Building | Madison Building
View press release
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Carol M. Highsmith,
photographer. Great Hall. View of
grand stairway from the second floor
west corridor. Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington,
D.C., 2007.
LC-DIG-highsm-01969
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Cambria Iron Mills house, Johnstown Flood, May 31st,
1889
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17539
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Johnstown Flood
Photo Digitized
David McCullough recently described
for a television documentary how
looking at
the Library's photos of the devastating
1889 Johnston Flood sparked his
curiosity and launched
his career as a historian.
View
description (with link to images) |
Rare Hand-Colored
Photos Digitized
Photographers at the Indian Congress
at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi International
Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, made
hundreds of black-and-white
portraits of the participants. A
recent gift provided four large hand-colored
platinum images.
View
images and descriptions
View descriptions of more Heyn photos
in P&P collections (some link to
images) |
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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.
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
Selected Images
Illustrated reference aid, including
depictions of the assassination,
portraits of the conspirators,
and views of Lincoln's funeral
procession.
View
reference aid |
Pictorial Americana Additions
Three more chapters are available
in Pictorial
Americana, a 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: Stores, Theaters, and Theatrical
posters and performances. Staff
have added tips for finding further
images on the topics represented.
View Pictorial
Americana table of contents |
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Use, Value, Viability: Criteria
for Choosing Effective Processing
Levels for Visual Materials
A tip sheet newly available in
the "Cataloging and Digitizing
Toolbox."
View
tip sheet (PDF file) |
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.
West Side Story:
Birth of a Classic
James Madison Building, 1st Floor, Room
LM 113
September 26, 2007-March 29, 2008
This exhibition, which marks
the fiftieth anniversary of the
opening of the musical on Broadway,
includes photographs from the Look
Magazine Photograph Collection
that were taken for a feature
spread that never ran in Look magazine.
Also included are rehearsal photographs
from the New York World-Telegram
& Sun Collection and theater
posters from P&P collections.
View
press release
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Paul Fusco, photographer. Photographs
from "Carol Lawrence" assignment.
Look Magazine Photograph Collection.
LOOK - Job 58-7786 [view
description | view
selected images]
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
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