Library of Congress Releases World War I Rotogravures Collections

The Library of Congress has announced a new digital collection, "Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ . Rotogravure, for those of you who missed that word in English class, is "An intaglio printing process in which letters and pictures are transferred from an etched copper cylinder to a web of paper, plastic, or similar material in a rotary press."

The site is browsable via a timeline, has highlights, and offers some essays, but of course there's keyword search as well. A search for trenches had 98 results. The search results are a bit different from what I'm used to from the LOC. Lists are provided twenty at a time, with names like "Excerpt from New York Times, December 20, 1914, Page 3". Click on it and you'll get a thumbnail of the entire page on the left, with a detail view on the right. You can navigate to other details simply by clicking on other areas on the thumbnail. You may also zoom in or out (select the zoom level you want then click on the picture.) PDF and MrSID versions of the pages are also available for offsite perusal.

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