Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ reveals a long-gone Long Beach

PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCADIA PUBLISHING
There’s no who’s who of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, no declassified maps of Allied supply routes—and unlike in, say, William Shirer’s Berlin Diary, you can’t actually hear the bombs falling in Poland as you read Rosie the Riveter in Long [...]

The Library of Congress brings us all a bit closer with the unveiling of their newest web-based tool–3,000 prints (out of the library’s collection of about 14 million photos) have been digitized and uploaded to Flickr. This digital collection runs through some of the library’s most popular photos and happens to house a number of [...]