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    Cloud Chasing Chariots: Early Yosemite Photographers(Post)

    Imagine it’s 1860.  You want to capture the clouds over Yosemite. But you don’t just hold your hand above the sky, squint and take a picture. There are no hand-held cameras, no phones, no cars, no G

    Daguerreotype Photography At Yosemite (Post)

    Saw this terrific National Geographic article about the modern use of the antique method of Daguerreotype photography at Yosemite.  

    Rare Pictures Capture Native Americans In Late 1800s (Post)

    This article appeared on the Voice of American "Learning English" website. The Library of Congress has a famous collection of Indian photographs taken by Edward Curtis. The above photograph of a Bla

    Information About the Collections(Page)

    AMERICAN MEMORY A great revolution in the history of poster prints was the development of printing techniques that allowed for inexpensive, mass production. The most notable of these, lithography,...

    It Came From Above: A Visual History of Astronomy(Post)

     By Leah Dearborn When NASA's New Horizons probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, it provided hundreds of new images of the far corners of the solar system.  Artists, however, have been creating detailed

    Printing Ink and Paper(Page)

    From 2001 through 2016 Snapshots of the Past was a printmaker and republisher of fine art prints made from historic maps, prints, photos and other ephemera originally housed at the Library

    Read All About It! In Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper(Post)

    Whereas the Internet and cable television are the ways most receive their news today, in 1855 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News published its first issue with a run of only 30 copies. It was an inausp

    WPA Poster: The Sun Rises In The West Written And Produced By Southwest Theatre Unit(Post)

    We are currently facing circumstances that approach the Great Depression. In May 1935, just a few days and 85 years ago, the government enacted the Works Progress Administration. “The Work

    History of the Company(Page)

    History of the Company Historian Michael J. Simpson has written an article

    “A Span, A Cry, An Ecstasy"(Post)

    If the Brooklyn Bridge were nothing more than an engineering marvel, that would have been enough to insure its place in the pantheon of great American civic enterprises. It was more than the sum of

    Historic Songs For A Pandemic(Post)

    In 1918 two events were consuming the attention and resources of the world: World War I and the Flu pandemic.  The pandemic received scant attention from popular culture though it affected most aspect

    Edward Penfield And The American Poster(Post)

    Edward Penfield’s first poster for Harper’s in 1893 shows a man in a green coat absorbed in reading a magazine while being splashed by raindrops; the display type accompanying the figure is as mat

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