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Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
As I was trolling through Bain News Service photographs from 100 years ago, I couldn’t help but reflect on how hindsight shapes our view of pictures and their meaning. I stopped in my tracks at this photo from July 27, 1914, with its evocative depiction of cooling recreation on a warm day. Despite the somewhat …
Posted in: Photographs
![[Gertrude Käsebier, wearing feathered hat, standing, facing front, half-length portrait]](https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/files/2014/07/gk_with_hat.jpg)
Posted by: Jeff Bridgers
After my babies came I determined to learn to use the brush. I wanted to hold their lovely little faces in some way that should be also my expression, so I went to an art school; two or three of them, in fact. But art is long and childhood is fleeting, I soon discovered, and …
Posted in: Photographs, Women's History
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
The following is a guest post by Woody Woodis, Cataloger, Prints and Photographs Division Today, in honor of Bastille Day, or La Fête Nationale, marking the beginning of the French Revolution, we feature highlights from the French Political Cartoon Collection. This small but exemplary collection of 365 prints spans almost two centuries and touches on …
Posted in: Prints
Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson
School may be out for the summer, but around the Library of Congress there’s always something new to learn. This week I joined teachers attending one of the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute sessions to display examples of primary sources that might be suited to classroom exercises. It set me to reflecting on examples …
Posted in: Prints
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
The following is a guest post by Jan Grenci, Reference Specialist – Posters, Prints and Photographs Division. If you like history and you like pie, this poster could easily become one of your favorites. When Emanuel Leutze finished painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in 1851 he probably never imagined his work being adapted for an …
Posted in: Posters, Series: Feast Your Eyes