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New Deal in the New Year: WPA Posters on Flickr
Keep Your Teeth Clean. Spare the Trees. Be Careful Near Machinery. Keep Your Teeth Clean. Poster, between 1936 and 1938. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02715 Advice dispensed by posters created...
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Unbuilt Washington: National Building Museum Exhibit
Can you imagine the D.C. skyline without the familiar obelisk of the Washington Monument? If Peter Force’s 1837 design had been chosen, it could have been a hollowed-out pyramid. Or what if Memorial...
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A Happy Anniversary: Four Years of Sharing on Flickr
Four years ago today we embarked on an experiment to post photographs from Library of Congress collections on the photosharing site, Flickr. We had done considerable planning, and we were quite clear...
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Chinese New Year Greetings
New Years Greeting, Chinatown 1912. Photograph published by Bain News Service, 1912. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10143 The following is a guest post by Brett Carnell, Acting Head, Technical...
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Robert Burns Day: Haggis, Anyone?
Robert Burns, Ayr, Scotland. Photochrom by Detroit Publishing Company, between 1890 and 1900. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07528 “Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the...
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