The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room has in its custody a number of items from Denmark, that depict Denmark, or that are otherwise related to Denmark. Just some of the most interesting Danish prints and photographs will be mentioned here.
Some of these are photochrom prints, which are colored lithographs produced to resemble photographs by the Photoglob Company in Zürich and Detroit at the turn of the 20th century. Amongst the 6,000 items in the Photochrom Print Collection are 15 of Danish settings. Also of note are the 52,000 stereograph cards in Prints and Photographs. When viewed through a stereoscope, the duplicated image of the stereograph appears three-dimensional. The Library of Congress’ collection of stereographs includes over 30 that capture Denmark between 1900 and 1910. The Lester Glassner Collection of Movie Posters, an assortment of nearly 500 items assembled over the course of 40-some years, holds 40 Danish pieces; and the Yanker Poster Collection, a gift of Gary Yanker given in installments starting in 1975, contains over 50 Danish posters from the postwar era amongst its 3,000 or so political, social, and propaganda posters.
The Haslaub Album, a collection of prints assembled by the collector Franz Haslaub portraying Early Modern European armed conflicts, has several depictions of the Dano-Swedish Wars (1657–1660). Among them is the print Allen und jeden Liebhaberen der Novellen Salutem, a bird's eye perspective of a naval battle between Denmark and Sweden off of the island of Møn in the Baltic sea; Der K:M: von Schweden und dero armee wǔnderbarer zǔg . . . , a print map of the King of Sweden's march with his army across the Sound to Copenhagen, as well as military maneuvers in Funen and Jutland; and Erenstliche Belegervng der Statt Copenhagen in Zeeland, a bird's eye perspective of the Danish capital city of Copenhagen under siege by land and at sea by the Swedish. In addition, an intaglio print in the Popular Graphic Arts Collection by the engraver Daniel Stopendael, De stadt Nyborg veroverdt door de Hr. Michiel de Ruiter . . . , shows the Danish city of Nyborg as it is saved by the Dutch fleet off the coast of Funen on November 25, 1659.
Unique in their scope and richness, the picture collections number more than 16 million images. These include photographs, historical prints, posters, cartoons, documentary drawings, fine prints, and architectural and engineering designs. While international in scope, the collections are particularly strong in materials documenting the history of the United States and the lives, interests, and achievements of the American people..
