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I would have expected the Library of Congress to have thousands or even millions of unidentified photographs, so I'm curious what the reasoning is behind these
by kej 4y ago
I would have expected the Library of Congress to have thousands or even millions of unidentified photographs, so I'm curious what the reasoning is behind these 17 receiving such special attention.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoYou have to start somewhere?
- sebmellen 4y ago> “Our crowd-sourcing via this and other LC blogs has proved to be a spectacular success. We started with well over 200 “unknowns” and, now, we have only 18 we don’t know! Thank you all!”
- robga 4y agoThey've been doing this for a while. This post is headlined "One Last Time". In this 2018 link, 23rd in a series, the LoC says it has "exhausted its currently slate of unidentified stills" So, they have very few unidentified stills in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound division of the Library of Congress. https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2018/01/photo-blog-23-final-mysteries/ https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2018/01/photo-blog-23-fin...