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The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, and Aliza Leventhal, Head, Technical Services, both of the Prints & Photographs Division. Gloria Vanderbilt. Color slide by Toni Frissell, February 1966. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021734524/ So many exciting collections are in the pipeline for routine access that it’s time for a look ahead. The Prints & Photographs Division works on about 20 “processing” projects at a time in order to make more collections readily available to researchers and reduce the arrearage of unprocessed collections that have to be served by appointment. To complete close to 10 projects and 400,000 items each year, we organize, rehouse, label, describe, and digitize a wide variety of visual materials every day. First, some breaking news. Two…

While I am usually incapable of picking favorites, I must admit I do have a favorite national park – Yellowstone. I have visited more than twenty times and I never tire of the natural wonders contained in its over 2 million acres. It was the first national park established in the United States, on March 1, 1872 – so today I will belatedly mark its 150th birthday with a historic journey through the park via images in our collections. William Henry Jackson is credited as the first person to photograph Yellowstone, as part of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. Jackson took this photo entitled “Great Falls of the Yellowstone” while traveling with the survey. These falls are now known…

At the end of the month, we mark the centennial of the Lincoln Memorial. This monument to our 16th President was dedicated on Memorial Day (then Decoration Day) in 1922 and its one hundred year birthday falls on Memorial Day this year. The Lincoln Memorial is visited by millions every year in Washington, D.C., and has been the site for many memorable speeches and events over time.  The dedication ceremony drew quite a crowd. On May 30, 1922, approximately 50,000 people gathered around the base of the memorial and some along the Reflecting Pool, as seen in the photos below: Dedication Lincoln Memorial, [5/30/22]. Photo by National Photo Company, [1922 May 30]. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.23029 Dedication Lincoln Memorial, 5/30/22. Photo by National…