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Light and Shadow

by The Library of Congress

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. This album highlights examples of the dance of light and shadow as captured by photographers in Library of Congress collections from 1903 to the present.

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Under a slow-moving, grinding glacier. Glittering walls of ice-grotto, Grindelwald (LOC)
[Columbus City Hall, Columbus, Indiana]. (LOC)
El pattern - 3rd Ave. (LOC)
Light-rays through colonnade in Church of Nativity (LOC)
Total eclipse of the sun (LOC)
Concordia Theological Seminary (originally Concordia Senior College), Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1953-58. Chapel interior (LOC)
Jack-Straw Light, Thousand Islands (LOC)
Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lights, head lights and lamps have been shaded from above in accordance with blackout regulations. The heavy light streaks are caused by paths of locomotive headlights and the thin lines b
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Snow in the mountains of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The unusual crescent shape patches of light in the shadows were caused by the partial eclipse of the sun] (LOC)
Moonlight on Lake Waikaremoana (LOC)
[Aerial view of marchers in the shadow of the Washington Monument at the March on Washington, 1963] (LOC)
Light streams into an Arizona "slot canyon" near Page, Arizona (LOC)
Washington Monument on armistice night, 1921 (LOC)
Box in oval light (LOC)
[Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith's long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875] (LOC)
Reflections, night, New York (LOC)
[Child in the surf at Delray] (LOC)