Open AccessPicturing the Big Shop: Photos of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1900–1980
Author(s) -
E. A. M. Sanders
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v45i3.6496
Subject(s) - publishing , government (linguistics) , popularity , perspective (graphical) , government office , media studies , library science , political science , history , advertising , public administration , visual arts , sociology , art , business , local government , law , computer science , philosophy , linguistics
Picturing the Big Shop features approximately two hundred captioned photographs from the Government Publishing Office historical photo collection to show “the working life” of the GPO. In focusing on primary sources, it offers a different perspective than that provided in Keeping America Informed (US Government Printing Office 2011, revised 2016), the “official sesquicentennial history” of the GPO. The popularity of the photographs in Keeping America Informed, in fact, led to Picturing the Big Shop’s creation.