Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos

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 Administrati...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/04/come-fly-with-me-part-two/

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 ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/04/come-fly-with-me-part-one/

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: C...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/04/behind-the-scenes-expanding-access-with-subject-terms/

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 imag...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/04/rainy-days/

The post discusses untitled photos in the Farm Security Administration Collection, and efforts to provide them titles. Also, the author explores still untitled photos and utilizes visual literacy...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/03/untitled-fsa-owi-photos-stories-waiting-to-be-uncovered/

I love to keep an eye out for photos from the P&P collections that show posters being displayed. I then search the poster collection to see if we have a copy of the actual poster. Here are some o...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/03/posters-working-together/

It’s that time of year – baseball season is upon us, and young ball players everywhere are getting geared up for their first spring games. We were not surprised to find that Prints & Photogra...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/03/play-ball/

It’s usually right about this time of year when I start pining for warmer weather and fresh, local fruit. This may have something to do with my California roots. My family always had fruit tree...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/03/pining-for-citrus/

One of my favorite ways to explore the vast collections of the Prints & Photographs Division is to look for connections between multiple collections that span different time periods. Quite by acc...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/03/double-take-a-tale-of-two-oxen/

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. The extensive photography archives of Ralph Ellison, Robert McNeill, and Bob Adelman are now ready for your ...

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/02/ready-for-research-three-photography-archives/