What's New in the Prints & Photographs
Division
June - September 2009
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Processed | Reference & Resources | Exhibitions | Featured
Acquisitions
Publications & Events
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YouTube Videos about Pictures
Presentations featuring the Library's pictorial holdings are among the videos gaining popularity in the Library of Congress YouTube channel. "Journeys & Crossings" presentations on Daniel Jenks's drawings of his westward journey in the mid-nineteenth century and representations of "Rosie the Riveter" have received high ratings.
View YouTube - Journeys & Crossings |
Additional Library of Congress events
are listed on the Library
Today page
For information about the Flickr project, view the Flickr Project page.
[Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland]. Photochrom print, between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07638
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Photochrom travel views of Scotland
Recently added to the "Photochrom Travel View" set in Flickr were 182 travel views of Scotland. Flickr members have responded enthusiastically with many "then-and-now" comparisons.
View Photochrom Travel Views of Scotland on Flickr
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Indicommons blog spreads word of Flickr Commons
The Indicommons blog (http://www.indicommons.org/) represents outreach from the Flickr Commons group beyond Flickr, to broaden knowledge of The Commons among the public and civic institutions around the world and to increase participation by the public in the Commons. Postings include interviews with individuals involved with the Commons, news of contributing repositories, and comments on content found in the Commons.
Visit Indicommons blog
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Dorothea Lange, photographer. Destitute pea pickers in California ("Migrant Mother"), 1936 Feb. or Mar.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41800
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FSA/OWI Favorites
Featuring 10 of the most frequently requested photos plus 15 staff selections to introduce the vast archive of about 170,000 negatives and 107,000 prints from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information showing life in America during the Great Depression and World War II
View FSA/OWI Favorites on Flickr
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All are available through the Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Korab Collection
Interior and exterior views by master architectural photographer Balthazar Korab document nineteen sites by renowned architect Eero Saarinen.
More information |
Balthazar Korab, photographer. MIT Kresge Auditorium and Chapel, 1950-55
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/krb.00245
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Hiroshige Andō, artist. Suidōbashi surugadai. Color woodcut, 1857.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.02922
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Japanese Prints & Drawings
All images now have titles (Japanese and English translation) and subjects, enhancing searching and identification of these woodblock prints and drawings, which date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
View images and descriptions |
Postcards
The Library's Junior Fellows selected more than 60 cards to indicate the wide variety of subjects and styles available in this visual format.
View images and descriptions |
A carload of mammoth navel oranges from California, copyrighted 1909
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19095
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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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National Photo Company Collection Image Sampler
Some staff favorites provide a sampling of the flavors to be savored in the National Photo Company Collection. Available as a slide show.
View the sampler |
Marjory Collins - Photojournalist
An overview of the life and work of Majory Collins has been added to the Women Photojournalists Web pages.
View the overview
View the Women Photojournalists pages |
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Pembroke Album
An overview and checklist of the 90 prints and 1 drawing English collectors Philip and Thomas Herbert, the 5th and 8th Earls of Pembroke, assembled between ca. 1683 and 1733. The prints are primarily chiaroscuro woodcuts by Italian printmakers active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
View the reference aid |
"Also Rans: Losing Presidential Candidates of the United States"
A selection of portraits of candidates who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. president in each election (but who sometimes succeeded in other election years!)
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.
Exhibition and book: Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager
July 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
More information (via National Building Museum site)
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Philip Trager, photographer. Glastonbury. 1976. National Building Museum
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Information on the division's acquisitions
program is available on the Acquisition
and Appraisal Information page.
Spiderman Drawings
The Library acquired 24 pages of original 1962 drawings from “Amazing Fantasy #15,” which marked the first time the world’s most famous web-slinger, Spider-Man, would appear in print anywhere. The Spider-Man origin story in “Amazing Fantasy” was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; the pages are Ditko originals, complete with pencil erasures and white-out opaquing fluid.
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More information (via LC blog)
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Steve Ditko, artist. Spider-man! Drawing, 1962.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18747 |
James Kelly, artist. August. Color lithograph, 1952
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.22267 |
Charles Randall Dean Collection
This exceptional collection of 125 Abstract Expressionist prints from the 1940s to the 1960s includes work by such noted American artists as James Budd Dixon, Sonia Gechtoff, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, James Kelly, Lee Krasner, Frank Lobdell, and Hedda Sterne. The collection is a purchase and gift from Charles Randall Dean in 2009
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Daguerreotype of Edwin McMasters Stanton and Son
The Library recently acquired
a unique half-plate daguerreotype of American lawyer and politician Edwin Stanton formally posed with his son a few years before Stanton became U.S. Attorney General for President Buchanan (1860-61) and then Secretary of War for Presidents Lincoln and Johnson (1862-68). Purchase and gift from the James Madison Council and George S. Whiteley, IV.
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Edwin McMasters Stanton, seated, with his son Edwin Lamson Stanton.
Half plate daguerreotype, between between 1852 and 1855.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19600 |
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