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President Jimmy Carter in Photos | Picture This
President Jimmy Carter, Town Hall meeting, Clinton, Mass. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, March 16, 1977. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gtfy.05260President Jimmy Carter in Photos January 2, 2025 Posted by: Kristi Finefield Source: President Jimmy Carter in Photos | Picture This
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War as They Saw It | Library of Congress Blog | Library of Congress
By Neely Tucker, May 22, 2022 — This is a guest post by Nathan Cross, an archivist in the American Folklife Center. It first appeared in the Library of Congress Magazine. Service members long have used photography as a means of capturing the essence of their experiences. As technology improved, cameras became more available, and…
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“A step out of and beyond nature”: Picturing the Moon | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
July 22, 2021 by Barbara Orbach Natanson The following is a guest post by Micah Messenheimer, Curator of Photography, Prints & Photographs Division. This week’s anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing provides a perfect opportunity to explore our holdings of lunar photography in the Prints & Photographs Division. From the medium’s beginnings, the moon…
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Remembering the Fallen in Photographs | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
May 25, 2018 by Kristi Finefield One of the most enduring traditions of Memorial Day is the decoration of the graves of fallen service members with such items as flowers and American flags. This annual day of commemoration was at one time referred to as Decoration Day because of this practice. My grandmother grew up…
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Cities at night – mapping the world at night
From the Scout Report… Source: Cities at night – mapping the world at night
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Posters of the Winter Season | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
The following is a guest post by Jan Grenci, Reference Specialist for Posters, Prints and Photographs Division. Winter is one of my favorite seasons, what with the snow, and the cookies, and the caroling. There are a number of posters in the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division that illustrate some of the things…
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How the L.A. Public Library Amassed a Collection of 3.1 Million Historical Photos | KCET
If a picture is worth a thousand words, so are the stories behind how this massive collection came to be. Source: How the L.A. Public Library Amassed a Collection of 3.1 Million Historical Photos | KCET
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About 360Cities
360cities.net is the web’s largest collection of stunning, geo-referenced, interactive panoramic photos, created by a network of thousands of the finest panorama photographers from around the world. 360Cities is leveraging the growing demand for rich media digital content in publishing, advertising & film, and mobile app & game development and has become the go to…
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See Some of America’s Most Amazing Public Libraries | TIME
The Library of Congress announced Monday that it had acquired a collection of nearly 700 photographs taken by Robert Dawson of public libraries across the United States. Dawson has spent about two decades traversing the nation to document the wide range of forms and functions filled by libraries. The photographer’s survey “provided the perfect opportunity…

