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Posted by: Jan Grenci
Last week, we started a compare/contrast journey through Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia via photographs taken by Jack Delano in July of 1941 for the Farm Security Administration and by me in April of 2024. Our journey concludes this week with four more picture sets. First up is an exterior shot: Let’s return to …
Posted in: Architecture, FSA/OWI, Photographs
Posted by: Jan Grenci
In July of 1941, Jack Delano photographed Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, for the Farm Security Administration. The airport had opened a month earlier. Earlier this month, I went to the airport to try to replicate some of Mr. Delano’s photos. I concentrated on what in 1941 was known as the waiting room and …
Posted in: Architecture, FSA/OWI, Photographs
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is an interview with Avnee Sharma and Alicia Perkovich, who both served as Archives, History and Heritage Advanced interns in the Prints & Photographs Division last fall. Melissa: Can each of you tell us about your background and how you came to work at the Library of Congress as Archives, History and Heritage …
Posted in: FSA/OWI, Photographs, Series: Behind the Scenes
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
As one might expect given the season, April has arrived in the nation’s capital with substantial rain showers. Inspired by what I see outside and curious to see what kinds of rainy weather images I could find in the collections, I searched the online catalog. There is no shortage of D.C.-based photographs in the collections. …
Posted in: Photographs, Prints