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Posted by: Kristi Finefield
Former President Jimmy Carter passed away earlier this week at the age of 100. Today, I’ll highlight a few collections in the Prints & Photographs Division which include images related to the life of Carter, the longest-living President in American history. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection: Carter’s active years fall squarely in …
Posted in: Architecture, News & Events, Photographs
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
The following is a guest post by Mari Nakahara, Curator of Architecture, Design & Engineering and Micah Messenheimer and Michelle Smiley, Curators of Photography, Prints & Photographs Division, drawn from a conversation with Professor David R. Hanlon. We appreciate his willingness to share his research findings and identify the photographers in the Hunt Collection to …
Posted in: Architecture, Photographs
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division, with excerpts from the Richard Morris Hunt Research Guide. How do you breathe life into a valuable but under-appreciated and complicated collection from the 1800s? The Prints & Photographs Division was fortunate to earn the attention of Sam Watters—an exceptional historian of …
Posted in: Architecture, Drawings, Photographs, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Melissa Lindberg
The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. The Paul M. Rudolph Archive has become our most heavily used collection for the work of a single architect. Enthusiasts of modernism, building preservationists, and students and scholars from all over the world are among the many researchers who study this …
Posted in: Architecture
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
The work of scanning, cataloging, and sharing our collection of images with the world is never ceasing in the Prints & Photographs Division. Digitization work brings to light both recently acquired and long-held items from the collections. I periodically browse our newly digitized images to see what is now available. I was particularly taken by …
Posted in: Architecture, Photographs
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
In 1906, New York photographer A.B. Phelan created several photomontages of an oversized man looming over parts of New York City. He accomplished this feat by skillfully combining two photos into one wonderful ‘trick’ photo. Lucky for us, he submitted them for copyright registration and the montage photos made their way into the Library’s permanent …
Posted in: Architecture, Photographs, Visual literacy
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
A fun feature on the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog is a link that allows you to view a selection of newly digitized images from the collections. Scanning visual materials from our collections, whether recently acquired or long-held but not yet digitized, is an ongoing task. We strive to bring as much of our collection to …
Posted in: African American History, Architecture, Photographs, Portraits, World War I
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
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