Previously on Display: 2000 - 2004

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.

Al Hirschfeld - Beyond Broadway
November 9, 2000-March 31, 2001
Celebrates a "Gift to the Nation" of original drawings given by the artist in honor of the Library’s Bicentennial. The exhibition features twenty-five drawings that span Hirschfeld’s remarkable career.

American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration
June 27–September 28, 2002
Features early twentieth-century drawings of women selected from outstanding graphic art in the Library's Cabinet of American Illustration and the Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon.

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.

Ancient Manuscripts: From the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
June 24-September 3, 2003
Presents ancient manuscripts, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, which cover every aspect of human endeavor and are indicative of the high level of civilization attained by West Africans during the Middle Ages.

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.

Blondie Gets Married! Comic Strip Drawings by Chic Young
June 22-September 16, 2000
Presents twenty-seven drawings, classic examples of Chic Young’s much-loved creative wit, selected from the gift of 150 works donated by Jeanne Young O’Neil, the artist’s daughter.

Bob Hope and American Variety
May 10, 2000-January 9, 2010
Explores variety entertainment through the lens of Bob Hope’s long and rich career, in which he continued to practice the variety traditions he learned on the vaudeville stage.

Canadian Conterpoint: Illustrations by Anita Kunz
September 4, 2003-January 3, 2004
Features sixteen paintings selected from a gift by the artist. The paintings reflect the rich variety to be found in the hundreds of paintings that Kunz has created during her twenty-two-year career.

Churchill and the Great Republic
February 5-July 10, 2004
Presents the life of Winston Churchill, his career, and his connection with the United States, a country he called "The Great Republic." A unique interactive presentation is a featured part of the exhibit.

Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop
February 20-July 26, 2003
Features artwork from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archives and Collection, including a selection of Blackburn’s work and prints by collaborators, students, personal friends, and colleagues.

The Dream of Flight
October 4, 2003-April 24, 2004
Honors the Wright Brothers’ achievement, using the Library’s rare and significant materials to explore the notion that flight, whether fanciful or actual, has inspired and occupied a central place in most cultures.

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.

Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
July 23, 2002-July 3, 2005
Showcases images from the collection of Landsat photographs held in the Geography and Map Division that have been selected for aesthetic rather than scientific value.

The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
April 17-August 31, 2001
Features the work of a pioneering Russian photographer who photographically surveyed the Russian Empire. The exhibit uses digital technology to reproduce Prokudin-Gorskii’s images, which were originally created in color on glass plates.

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
September 27, 2001-January 19, 2002
Showcases the Library’s spectacular holding of Japanese "Ukiyo-e" prints, books, and drawings dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
September 9-December 30, 2004
Features more than two hundred treasures of American Judaica from the collections of the Library of Congress, augmented by a selection of important loans from other cooperating cultural institutions.

From the Home Front and the Front Lines
May 24, 2004-November 13, 2004
Consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress.

Herblock’s Gift: Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection
March 12-June 28, 2003
Celebrates the gift of the Herb Block Foundation and features a selection of original cartoons spanning the artist’s remarkable career.

Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium
October 17, 2000-February 17, 2001
Presents works by cartoonist Herb Block, who chronicled the nation’s political history and caricatured twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton.

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.

Humor’s Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
June 3-September 11, 2004
Celebrates Ann Telnaes’s generous gift of eighty-one original drawings that represent the range of themes that engage this gifted artist who has recently emerged as a leader in American editorial cartooning.

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.

Madison’s Treasures
One day only, March 16, 2001
Examines documents related to two seminal events in which Madison played a major role: the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the introduction of the amendments that became the Bill of Rights.

Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
November 30, 2001-May 31, 2002
Documents Mead’s life, her career as an anthropologist, and the critical reception of her work by drawing upon the 500,000-item Mead Collection, one of the Library’s largest collections for a single individual.

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.

Petal From the Rose: Illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green
June 28-September 29, 2001
Focuses on Green’s art and distinctive features of her illustrations and working methods. Although her work shares similarities with that of other women in the profession, it stands apart in its scope, quality, and originality.

Reflections: Russian Photographs, 1992-2002
September 14-December 27, 2003
Presents photographs from a larger group of pictures that were generously donated to the Library by the Moscow Times, the first English-language daily newspaper ever to be printed in Russia.

Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
July 24, 2003-November 29, 2003
Features the Library’s rich collections of exploration material documenting the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century quest to connect the East and the West by means of a waterway passage.

Roger L. Stevens Presents
May 16-September 7, 2002
Examines Stevens’s career through the great number of stage productions that he presented or fostered indirectly, his involvment with the National Endowent for the Arts, and his role as in creating the John F. Kennedy Center

Thomas Jefferson
April 24-October 31, 2000
Draws on the Library’s Thomas Jefferson materials to examine the influence Jefferson’s thoughts and interests had on his own life, the American republic, and the world.

When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood
September 26, 2002-March 22, 2003
Captures through photographs the experience of childhood as it is connected across time, different cultures, and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
May 13-November 13, 2004
Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark judicial case, which declared that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States.

Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
September 7-October 26, 2002
Features the collections that the Library amassed during the year following the attacks of September 11, 2001. The exhibit is the story of how the materials arrived and how they reflect what America experienced in the aftermath of the attacks.

The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale
April 21-September 23, 2000
Looks at the creation of this timeless American classic and traced its rapid and enduring success to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the book’s publication.

World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
June 7, 2001-March 15, 2003
Looks at how various cultures explained the beginning of the world, depicted the first human beings, and defined the heavens and the earth by drawing upon unique items from the Library’s international collections in more than 450 languages.