Snapshots of the Past is an archive and

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founded in May 2001 by Jim Lantos. The online archive contains

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...

images publicly available as museum-quality, fine art reproductions. The blog and

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channels feature images and original research and content about historic people, places, and events. Lantos collaborated with Applewood Books on a series of books that collected images of themes ranging from Boston baseball, to vintage holidays and the lives of presidents.

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