Tag: Jan Grenci

My latest Flickr album focuses on depictions of eyeglasses in the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division. Many of the images in the group are photographs, but a number of posters and prints appear as well. I added two WPA (Work Projects Administration) posters to the mix. Take a look at some equally worthy WPA posters featuring eyeglasses that weren’t included in the album. Be kind to books club Are you a member? Poster by Arlington Gregg, between 1936 and 1940. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48892 What about India? Poster by Maurice Merlin, between 1941 and 1943. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33812 When I look at the next poster, I see a monocle on the left eye of the cancer quack. Though I suppose it could also…

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include many images that depict the act of reading. When I recently prepared a Flickr album on the subject, I had a number of photographs, prints and posters to spare. Let me show you some of the posters that I didn’t use but are equally worthy of the spotlight! I like books. Poster by Karla Kuslin, 1962. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.42782 Bring home the world in books. Poster by Paul Honoré, between 1920 and 1930. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.42683 Explore with books. Book week, Nov. 17-23. Poster by Alice and Martin Provensen, 1957. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.43161 Trolley trips on a Bay State Triangle. Poster by Charles H. Woodbury, 1897. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.43608   Learn More: View the Flickr album dedicated to Reading.…

Each month, I gather images from the holdings of the Prints & Photographs Division for a Flickr album. The albums have a theme, the most recent one being Women Photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). It features the work of Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Dorothea Lange, And Marion Post Wolcott. As I was looking through photos in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) taken by Dorothea Lange, I spotted a photo, which at thumbnail size on my laptop, showed a car’s hubcap. When I enlarged the image, I got very excited when I saw reflections both on the car’s fender and in the hubcap! Untitled photo, possibly related to: Close-up view of abandoned dry land…

When looking for images of winter warmth and light for a recent Flickr album, I went off on a searching tangent and happened upon a group of photographs that piqued my interest. All the photos, from the Harris & Ewing Collection, date from 1917 (though contemporary newspaper coverage dates the event in the photos to 1918) and share the same title: “Red Cross Demonstration with Tableaux, on south front of Treasury.” As soon as I looked closely at the photos I got very excited. I work with the Library’s poster collection and realized that the images depicted recreations with live models of Red Cross World War I posters! Also known as tableaux vivants, these recreations were a popular form of…