What's New in the Prints & Photographs Division

Baseball Americana Symposium

A celebration of our national pastime and the publication of a new book featuring hundreds of historic baseball images, Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress, which will be published by HarperCollins on September 29, 2009. The symposium will examine baseball from a number of perspectives, particularly the viewpoints of people who experience the game at home, in the stands, and on the field. Registration is required for some symposium 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.

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[Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland]. Photochrom print, between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07638

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

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.

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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

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

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Korab Collection

 Interior and exterior views by master architectural photographer Balthazar Korab document nineteen sites by renowned architect Eero Saarinen.

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Hiroshige Andō, artist. Suidōbashi surugadai. Color woodcut, 1857.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.02922

Japanese Prints & Drawings

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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.

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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.

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Marjory Collins - Photojournalist

An overview of the life and work of Marjory Collins has been added to the Women Photojournalists Web 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.

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"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!)

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Exhibition and book:  Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager

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Philip Trager, photographer. Glastonbury. 1976. National Building Museum

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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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

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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