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Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
I had the good fortune to spend a little time last week in “Timely and Timeless,” an exhibition of comic art in the new Graphic Arts Galleries in the Thomas Jefferson Building. The works on exhibit are drawn from the abundance of cartoons and comics the Prints & Photographs Division has acquired over the last …
Posted in: Cartoons, News & Events
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
Recently I had one of those days when Prints & Photographs Division collections intersected with my personal life. I came home to an exclamation from my daughter, who was trolling the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for a school assignment: “Mom, the Office of War Information photographed my high school during World War II!” The …
Posted in: Flickr, News & Events, Photographs
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
This peek “Behind the Scenes” is the first post in an occasional series where we invite you to see how the Prints & Photographs Division manages a collection in excess of 14 million images. The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. The Prints & Photographs Division has started …
Posted in: News & Events
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
What’s the date of this photo? Take your best guess, and then I’ll mention some clues I pursued. The photo shows the busy catalog card distribution office at the Library of Congress. There’s no date on the photographic print. Recently, we needed to determine when the photo was taken, so out came my magnifying glass. …
Posted in: Photographs, Posters, Visual literacy
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
The tools of her trade are simple: colored pencils, crayons, pens, and paper. Yet, armed with just these tools artist Marilyn Church has brought to life some of the most dramatic moments in high-profile courtroom trials during the past 36 years. Her work has covered such well-known people as Martha Stewart, J.K. Rowling, Bernard L. Madoff, Jacqueline Onassis, the men …
Posted in: Drawings