What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
October 2008 - January 2009
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Flickr Project: More Photos and a Report
We continue to share some of our popular images with a new visual community in the photosharing site, Flickr, and we continue to enjoy lively discussions the photos have sparked there. In recent months, we have regularly added to the set, "News from the 1910s," photos from the Bain News Service. We have also provided a selection of panoramic photographs relating to World War I as part of a commemoration of Armistice Day by members of The Commons. A report on the first nine months of the pilot project is available on the Flickr project page.
Visit the Flickr project page |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Popular Graphic Arts large size prints scanned
High resolution scans for more than 3,000 large prints (approx. 24" x 36" or larger) are now available. Published primarily between 1800 and 1890, the work of Currier & Ives dominates the collection, with publishers such as Bufford, Duval, Prang, and E. Sachse & Co. also represented. Subject matter ranges from battle scenes and cityscapes to portraits, religious iconography, and technology, with cartoons, advertising, and political campaign material among the diverse forms represented in these once widely distributed prints. [View sample prints] |
Burck, publisher. The fast mail, copyrighted 1875.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.00401
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Harris & Ewing, photographer, Baseball, Congressional. Lafferty of Oregon and Webb of North Carolina, 1911.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.00430
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Harris & Ewing Glass Negatives
The first 3,600 scans of glass negatives from the Harris & Ewing Collection now appear online. The photography firm of Harris & Ewing documented people, events, and architecture, particularly in Washington, D.C., during the period 1905-1945. As P&P has no prints corresponding to many of the negatives, this is the first time that many of the images can be easily seen.
More information |
Images Used in Two Popular Library of Congress Publications
Descriptions and online images are now available for all the illustrations (more than 400 in all) used in two Library publications Viewpoints: A Selection from the Pictorial Collections of the Library of Congress and The Tradition of Technology: Landmarks of Western Technology. The images highlight strengths of the Library's collections in a range of topic areas.
View Tradition of Technology illustrations
View Viewpoints illustrations | 
(top) Robert Fulton, artist. Submarine. Drawing, 1806. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52609, published in Tradition of Technology.
(bottom) Walt Disney Productions, Fantasia : Mickey Mouse in ..."The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Painting on celluloid, ca. 1939. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.07566, published in Viewpoints - "The Lively Arts." |
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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Solving a Civil War Photograph Mystery
This case study explores the question "Is this photo fact or fiction?" using clues from the photograph's content, physical characteristics, source, and connections to other photographs.
View the reference aid (via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
Helen Johns Kirtland Overview
A new addition to the Women Photojournalists site, this overview summarizes Kirtland's career, offers samples images, and points to related resources.
View the overview
View the Women Photojournalists table of contents |
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| Photochrom Print Collection
Overview
Information about the photochrom process and the collection of more than 6,000 photochrom views in the Prints and Photographs Division holdings, with a bibliography and links to related resources.
View the collection overview (via Prints & Photographs Online Catalog) |
Vice Presidents: A Select List of Portraits
An illustrated list of vice presidents, a companion to P&P's list of Presidents and First Ladies.
View the reference aid |
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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.
"Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for New Haven and Yale," (Yale School of Architecture)
Nov. 7, 2008- Feb. 6, 2009
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
Includes twenty items from the Paul Rudolph Archive in the Library of Congress.
More information (Yale site)
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Paul Rudolph, architect. Managers office, parking garage, New Haven, Connecticut. Drawing, 1961.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19128
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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.
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