The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893

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[Men, women, and children at a picnic in the park] (LOC)

[Men, women, and children at a picnic in the park] [United States] : [publisher not transcribed], [about 1900?] 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in acti by The Library of Congress via Flickr: Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer. Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17 which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude heavy bomber, with a crew of seven to nine men, and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions  1942 Oct.  Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 388. Subjects: Douglas Aircraft Company Airplane industry Women--Employment World War, 1939-1945 Bombers Assembly-line methods United States--California--Long Beach Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501 General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp.fsac.1a03058 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03058 

“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!!!

The Four Seasons, Alfons Mucha, ca. 1897

photo: David Castenson

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

Marvin Breckinridge (1930) 

https://www.loc.gov / https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/marvin-breckinridge/

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

Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)

10/04/2024

Aaron Siskind, Harlem, New York, 1937,

Gelatin silver print, ,

8 3/4 × 8 1/8" (22.2 × 20.8 cm)

Library of Congress

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