(These three images are taken from the Library of Congress’ collection of Dorothea Lange photographs) This year our One Book, One Community novel is The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik, an historical fiction account of Dorothea Lange’s early years in San Francisco. As portrayed in the book, Lange started out as a portrait photographer in San…
When Republic Bank of Chicago offered us an opportunity to host a photo exhibit celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Beatles, you had better believe we twisted, shouted, and said “yes!” To get the community ready and excited for the exhibit — open from July 16–24 at Aspen Drive Library — we hosted two major…
Next week’s genealogy program, “When Was It Taken?”, will be held at Cook Park Library in the meeting room at 7 p.m. Some of our publicity has had the wrong information. Local historian and photography expert Julia Johnas will give us tips on how to identify the time period of a given photograph. You can…
Recently a patron asked how to take care of photographs, documents, and an old ledger that she had acquired after a death in the family. Looking into it, I realized this question has two elements. First, a fragile or historically significant item should be digitized so it won’t need to be handled any more. Second, the…
At our Genealogy Writing Group yesterday our discussion centered around adding images, specifically post cards, to our writing. One of our group had post cards of sites of places important to her family history. If you want to look for post cards to buy, here are a couple of post card shows in the area…
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