The Supreme Court hearing a case in 1986. Artist: Marilyn Church. Prints and Photographs Division. More than 5,000 fans came to hear...
Marie Paneth and some of her students, all survivors of Nazi concentration camps. Photo: Columbia Studios. Prints and Photographs Division. They are...
Exploration into the unknown — when much of the world’s surface was not accurately mapped — is the theme of this month’s...
Thomas Alva Edison, slouching like a boss, with some of his inventions, in 1892. Photo: W.K. Dickson. Prints and Photographs Division. This...
Alan Lomax documented traditional cultures in America, the Caribbean and Europe. Lomax Collection/Prints and Photographs Division. This story was first printed in...
Les Paul, New York, 1947. Photo: William P Gottlieb. Prints and Photographs Division. This is the soundtrack of a revolution. The speakers...
We are all about glasses in this month’s edition of the Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free pictures, prints,...
The cover of the German atlas of Operation Barbarossa. Geography and Map Division. This is a guest blog by Ryan Moore, a...
The very first mass-produced Christmas card, 1843. Let’s hope the wee child is sipping cider from that wine glass. Rare Book and...
From left, Prince in “Purple Rain” (1984), Sissy Spacek in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1980), Elaine May in “A New Leaf” (1971), Tom...