#library of congress

[pointandshooter]

former office of the Librarian of Congress

photo: David Castenson

#opulence #interior design #architecture #library of congress #photographers on tumblr

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

“Reading is for everyone.”

Here is one of the coolest things I've found stuck in a library book recently! It's a bookmark from the Library of Congress that's in print and also incorporates a message in braille. It's advertising the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Learn more at the NLS website:

ETA: Thanks for all the love for this post!!! Here's a reblogged version which includes some great comments and a very helpful ID!!!

#bookmarks #reading is for everyone #braille #Library of Congress #NLS #Blind and Print Disabled #talking books

[lionofchaeronea]

The Four Seasons, Alfons Mucha, ca. 1897

#art #art history #Alfons Mucha #Alphonse Mucha #allegory #allegorical art #genre painting #Art Nouveau #Czech art #19th century art #Library of Congress

[vintagelibraries]

For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more often (LOC), between 1936 and 1941. 

#Vintage #Retro #Library #Libraries #Library of Congress #1930s #1940s #40s #30s #1936 #1941 #USA #United States

[garadinervi]

Wounded Knee Massacre, Wounded Knee Creek, SD, December 29, 1890 / 2023

Image: Bruce Carter, We Remember Wounded Knee 1890-1973, 1974 [Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

Plus: Dec. 29, 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre, Zinn Education Project

#graphic design #art #drawing #illustration #poster #wounded knee massacre #bruce carter #oakland museum of california #library of congress #zinn education project

[intomore]

Aaron Siskind, Harlem, New York, 1937,

Gelatin silver print, ,

8 3/4 × 8 1/8" (22.2 × 20.8 cm)

Library of Congress

#art #photography #black and white #vintage photography #still life photography #history #portrait #aaron siskind #harlem #new york #black history #american history #library of congress #grocery

[inthedarktrees]

A young woman training to perform as a mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida. Lessons include breath control, underwater ballet, synchronized swimming, graceful movement, and underwater dining etiquette. Audiences watch the mermaids perform from an underground theater embedded in the side of the spring.

Care and Feeding of a Mermaid, 1961

#mermaid #weeki wachee springs #1960s #60s #filmedit #weeki wachee #vintage #synchronized swimming #swimming #swimmer #underwater #gif #roadside attraction #skin diving #diving #documentary #library of congress #item 2021671089

[undr]

Library of Congress. New York 1910s

#library of congress #black and white #vintage #photography #new york #art #history #black and white photography #vintage photography #1910s

[istandonsnowpiles]

The Pillars of Madison

#architecture #dc #capitol hill #geometry #library of congress #washington #july #around dc #my work #photography

[pointandshooter]

photo: David Castenson

#library of congress #black and white photography #abstract photography #vertical #photographers on tumblr

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Out Representative-elect Robert Garcia (D-CA) may not have been able to get sworn in yesterday due to Republicans’ inability to elect a Speaker of the House, but he has plans for when he finally can be sworn in.

When he takes his oath of office, he’ll swear on a copy of the Constitution, and, beneath that, an original Superman #1 comic from 1939, a photo of his parents, and a copy of his citizenship certificate.

Garcia came to the U.S. from Peru with his family when he was five-years-old and has said that naturalization was “his proudest moment” and the reason he started a career in politics. His parents died in 2020 of COVID-19.

He was the youngest and first out LGBTQ+ person elected as mayor of Long Beach, California (a position he served in from 2014 to 2022). During his time as mayor, he worked with businesses to reduce their environmental impacts, filled vacancies on citizen commissions with diverse and female members, and worked to improve local infrastructure as well as financial opportunities for local artists and home-based business owners.

He’s also an avid comic book fan.

In November, he tweeted a photo of the Superman #1 comic along with Amazing Fantasy #15, in which Spider-Man first appeared, saying he didn’t know which one he would first check out from the Library of Congress.

While many members of Congress will be sworn in on Bibles, they are not legally required to do so. Former Rep. – and current Minnesota attorney general – Keith Ellison (D-MN), who was the first Muslim person elected to Congress in 2007, was sworn in on a copy of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t sworn in with any object after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. And in 2014 Suzi LeVine was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein on a Kindle with a copy of the Constitution open.

“I wanted to use a copy that is from the twenty-first century and that reflects my passion for technology and my hope for the future,” she said at the time.

New members of the House can’t be sworn in until a speaker is elected. Yesterday, after three votes, no candidate for Speaker was able to get a majority of votes because of a faction of Republicans voting against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Democrats’ candidate – Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) – got the most votes in each round of voting, and around 20 Republicans – including anti-LGBTQ+ Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Bob Good (R-VA), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) – voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

Jordan himself nominated and voted for McCarthy.

The House adjourned without a new Speaker elected.

#us politics #news #2023 #twitter #tweet #Democrats #lgbtq nation #robert garcia #us house of representatives #118th congress #detective comics #us constitution #library of congress #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ representation #lgbtqia+ pride #us history #President Theodore Roosevelt #Suzi LeVine #Keith Ellison #superman #California

[readerupdated]

Take a look at these lesser-known WPA posters from the Library of Congress collection. They are focused on teaching kids how to use – and how not to use – a print book.

(via WPA posters on how to use a print book)

#library #library of congress #pics #reading #reader updated #book #books #print books #read poster #books matter #book love

[lionofchaeronea]

Times Square on a Rainy Day, John Vachon, 1943

#photography #history #New York #New York City #Old New York #b&w #b&w photography #rain scene #pluviophile #1940s #John Vachon #Library of Congress

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #illustration #printmaking #library of congress #the black cat #hello kitty

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joni Mitchell playing Gershwin’s piano, March 2, 2023 © Shawn Miller.

#Joni Mitchell #George & Ira Gershwin #Gershwin Brothers #Library of Congress #Gershwin Prize #2023 #2020s #Shawn Miller

[garadinervi]

Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

(image: Malcolm X at microphones, 1964. Photo by Ed Ford / World Telegram & Sun. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

#photography #malcolm x #ed ford #library of congress #1960s