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October - December 2004

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Events

David Levine presents an illustrated talk, "A Pointed View"

Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at 2:00PM
The Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building. Seating limited to 50. To register, please contact Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115.
Sponsored by the Prints & Photographs Division.

Internationally acclaimed artist David Levine will talk about his artistic process and his career, showing examples of his caricature drawings and paintings. After the talk, audience members are invited to the Prints & Photographs Reading Room to view a display of drawings by the artist selected from the Library's collections.

David Levine. Self Portrait.
David Levine. "Self Portrait," c.1976. © David Levine.
Courtesy of the artist.
Webcasts of public programs, clockwise from upper left: Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson discussing Children of the Depression; Mary Mundy talking about cataloging born-digital images; John Vlach discussing Barns; Comic Book Artists and Illustrators and 9/11 panel discussion.
Clockwise from upper left: Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson discussing Children of the Depression; Mary Mundy talking about cataloging born-digital images; John Vlach discussing his publication, Barns; Comic Book Artists and Illustrators and 9/11 panel discussion.

Webcasts

Webcasts of public programs relating to Prints & Photographs Division activities and collections are now available. Includes presentations by artists, presentations relating to P&P collections, and presentations relating to visual librarianship.

Additional Library of Congress events are listed on the Library Today page


Exhibitions

Items from the Prints & Photographs Division are well represented in the following Library of Congress exhibitions. A full list of Library of Congress exhibitions is available on the Exhibitions page.

Lewis Hine, Waiting for the "Forwards" - Jewish paper - at 1 A.M.
Lewis Hine, Waiting for the "Forwards" - Jewish paper - at 1 A.M.
Photographic print, 1913 March.
LC-DIG-nclc-03863

From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America

Northwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building
September 9 - December 18, 2004
View online exhibition

"With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty

Great Hall Gallery South,
1st Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building
May 13 - November 13, 2004.
View online exhibition
Reading lesson...Washington, D.C.
Marjory Collins, Reading lesson...Washington, D.C., 1942.
LC-USW3-000889-E

House for Mrs. James Osborne Craig (Montecito, California)
James Osborne Craig. House for Mrs. James Osborne Craig (Montecito, California). [ca. 1920]
LC-USZC4-6232

Architecture Collections from the Library of Congress

Library of Congress/Ira Gershwin Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California

Items from Library of Congress collections that showcase the quality and diversity of domestic architecture created in Southern California in the 20th century
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Featured Acquisitions

Information on the division's acquisitions program is available on the Acquisition and Appraisal Information page.

Camille Billops

Camille Billops (b. 1933). Untitled (KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks), color etching, 1993.
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Camille Billops. Untitled (KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks)
Hung Liu. Unofficial Portraits: The Maiden

Hung Liu

Hung Liu (b. 1948). Unofficial Portraits: The Maiden, color lithograph with collage, 2001.
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07206
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Milton Rogovin Photographs

Milton Rogovin, Mother Green with Bible, [between 1958 and 1963].
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04773
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Mother Green with Bible

Collections Recently Processed or Made Available Online

All are available through the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).

Alfred T. Palmer. Operating
              a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville,
              woman
                is working on a "Vengeance" dive
                bomber, Tennessee
Alfred T. Palmer. Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee. Between 1943 Feb.
LC-DIG-fsac-1a35371

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Transparencies:
New High Resolution Scans

Scenes in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands, showing work and home life, culture, and war, 1939-1944. New higher resolution scans are available for these already popular early Kodachrome transparencies.
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Prokudin-Gorskii Collection Color Composite Digital Images

Between ca. 1905 and 1915 Prokudin-Gorskii took photographs of the Russian Empire using an early color process. He photographed through color filters onto triple-frame glass negatives, producing images that could be printed or projected in color. In response to researcher interest, the Library of Congress contracted with Blaise Agüera y Arcas to make digital color composites of all the negatives through an automated process (a description of the process is available). The results can now be viewed in PPOC.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Entrance into the Nikolskaia Church in the Makarev Monastery
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Vkhod v Nikol'skuiu tserkov' v Makar'evskom monastyrie [Entrance into the Nikolskaia Church in the Makarev Monastery], 1910.
LC-DIG-prokc-21239 (digital color composite from digital file from glass neg.)
G.M. Woodward. Caricature curiosity.
G. M. (George Moutard) Woodward, engraver. Caricature curiosity. 1806.
LC-USZC2-622

Cartoon Prints, British: new on the PPOC Collections List

About 500 of the Library's 10,000 British political and satirical prints dating ca. 1621-ca. 1853 have been digitized and cataloged online. The online records can now be searched together in the "Cartoon Prints, British" collection, which also features new contextual information and a bibliography.
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Reference and Resources

Reference information is available from the "Information for Researchers," "Image Lists" and Collection Guides and Finding Aids pages.

Lot Harding House
Lot Harding House, North Pamet Road, Truro, Barnstable County, Mass.
HABS, MASS,1-TRU,19-

Cape Cod Houses Recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey: A Select List

An illustrated reference aid with a bibliography.
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Cataloging & Digitizing Toolbox

Features several new offerings, including "How to" tip sheets, and resource lists relating to catalog and finding aid systems, authority files, and collection guides.
View Cataloging & Digitizing Toolbox page

Toolbox image from Farm Security Administration Collection (Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Employees must buy their own tools... LC-USW3- 027771-D)
LC-USW3-027771-D

Of Related Interest

Research Libraries Group/Trove.net™

Selected Library of Congress images are included in this new service, which includes all unrestricted collections from RLG Cultural Materials Initiative (a subscription service). Trove.net™ makes images available without subscription in a low resolution, watermarked form. Supporting the greater visibility of the material to general Web users, items in Trove.net™ are discoverable by any Web user through Internet search engines.
More information (Trove.net™ site)
Clockwise: Roy Takeno reading paper in front of office (Manzanar Relocation Center Photographs); Balloon labeled H. Lachambre (Tissandier collection);  Panoramic view of Akron, O. (Panoramic Photographs) -- all from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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