The Library recently acquired an important collection of photographs by William P. Gottlieb, a jazz columnist who shot some 1,500 portraits of more than 250 jazz musicians from 1938 to the late 1940s. Mr. Gottlieb’s photographs have great appeal in the jazz world because they are not only what one critic called “very penetrating pictures [...]
“Boy, how it makes you wish, looking at them, that you could hear the music of the instant,” Mr. Bamberger said. “Bill’s photos are of performance art captured through the lens of another art,” that of writing critical reviews. Mr. Gottlieb began work at the Washington Post as an advertising agent and later started a [...]
The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition [...]
Witnesses to the locust invasion that befell Jerusalem and the nearby Syrian region in 1915 agreed that they had seen nothing to equal it in their life-times. It was truly a natural disaster of biblical proportions. Members and employees of the American Colony were active in complying with official eradication efforts during the plague. They [...]
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