Previously on Display: 1995 - 1999

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
Presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years.

The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection
Features 379 Civil War-era ambrotypes and tintypes of enlisted Union and Confederate soldiers.

The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
February 5-May 5, 1998
Showcases the Library’s incomparable African American collections. The largest black history exhibit held at the Library includes books, documents, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings.

American Treasures of the Library of Congress
May 5, 1997-August 18, 2007
Provides unique insight into various aspects of American history and culture. Objects displayed are organized according to the three categories that Thomas Jefferson used for his library: memory, reason, and imagination.

Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
December 9, 1999-May 6, 2000
Presents the work of one America’s leading political artists, in particular his work during World War II, when he produced hundreds of anti-Axis illustrations and cartoons in aid of the Allied war effort.

Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
September 8-December 31, 1995
Explores how the relationship between culture and power in France shaped the growth of the the country’s national library.

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
June 29-July 4, 1995
Presents previews of unique documents from the collections of the Library of Congress.

Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library
April 11-July 13, 1996
Displays treasures from Dresden in order to provide an insight into the cultural riches of Central Europe—from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century.

Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective
May 31, 2011–May 31, 2012
Showcases Landsat 7 images created by the United States Geological Survey. Since 1972, Landsat satellites have collected from space information about Earth’s continents and coastal areas.

For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
June 2-August 30, 1997
Marks the fiftieth anniversary of Secretary of State George Marshall’s speech proposing a solution to the hunger, unemployment, and housing shortages that faced Europeans in the aftermath of World War II and examines the ways his plan benefited Europe and the U.S.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-32
November 14, 1996-February 16, 1997
Presents five remarkable projects that Frank Lloyd Wright worked on during the 1920s, in which he developed architectural prototypes of far-reaching consequence.

Gettysburg Address
January 12–19, 1995
Shows the Library’s two copies of the famous address. President Lincoln gave a copy to each of his two private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay. The Nicolay copy is believed to be the earliest copy that exists.

Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 11, 2008
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to the brothers who helped provide a musical background to the period.

In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
October 7, 1994-March 4, 1995
Presents objects from a relatively unknown archive of significant documents. The exhibit explores the moving human exchanges that took place between the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska and Native Alaskans between 1794 and about 1915.

John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations
November 18, 1999-March 4, 2000
Brings together for the first time treasures from the two greatest libraries in the English-speaking world—The British Library and the Library of Congress—in order to illuminate the relationship between the two countries.

Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings from the Ben & Beatrice Goldstein Collection
October 20, 1999-January 29, 2000
Presents a collection of American prints and drawings informed by a sympathy for the condition of working people, as well as a concern for social and political issues.

Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Library of Congress
February 25-July 6, 1998
Reveals how for centuries great graphic artists have created enduring images that demonstrate the power of art as a vehicle for social and political commentary.

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom

Presents a retrospective of the major personalities, events, and achievements that shaped the NAACP’s history during its first 100 years.

Oliphant’s Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress
April 29-August 15, 1998
Commemorates the Library’s acquisition of sixty cartoon drawings, sketchbooks, and illustrations by one of America’s foremost editorial cartoonists.

Religion and the Founding on the American Republic
June 4-August 29, 1998
Documents the role religion played in the shaping of early American life and in forming the American republic.

Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture
October 15, 1998-January 16, 1999
Examines Freud’s life, his key ideas, and their impact on the twentieth century. The exhibit includes photographs, prints, manuscripts, first editions, home movies, and materials from newspapers, magazines and comic books.

Stagestruck!: Performing Arts Caricatures at the Library of Congress
November 5, 1998-April 3, 1999
Explores how performing arts caricature came of age as an art form in the United States as celebrities of song, stage, and screen were transformed into popular icons of American culture.

The Water-babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
June 10-September 18, 1999
Presents the artist’s drawings created for book The Water-Babies in 1916. She bequeathed all twelve drawings to the Cabinet of American Illustration, which is preserved within the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division.

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII
September 28-November 18, 1995
Features women journalists who were chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library. Like their male counterparts, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments.

The Work of Charles and Ray Earmes: A Legacy of Invention
May 20-September 4, 1999
Explores how this famous couple shaped America’s culture in the twentieth century. Charles and Ray Eames’s work represented defining moments in American history, such as the economy’s shift from making goods to producing information.