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Continue celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with this special webpage featuring collections, stories & events from several U.S. cultural institutions: https://hispanicheritagemonth.gov Image: The mural "Entry into the Forest" by Candido Portinari in the Library of Congress Hispanic Division Reading Room, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. The mural depicts four men in a forest, one of whom is drinking from a stream.

We hear it's Ride Your Motorcycle Day, so here's the first woman to be granted a motorcycle license in Washington, D.C.: Mrs. Sally Halterman. Immediately after receiving her permit, Mrs. Halterman was initiated into the D.C. Motorcycle Club. Glass-plate negative by Harris & Ewing, 1937. Prints & Photographs Division.

Today for , we highlight the work of Toni Frissell (1907-1988). After working as a fashion photographer for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Frissell volunteered her services to the American Red Cross, Women’s Army Corps and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. Frissell's work usually involved creating images to support the publicity objectives of her subjects. Her photographs of WACs in training and under review by President Franklin Roosevelt fit into a media campaign devised to counter negative public perception of women in uniform. Likewise, Frissell's images of the African American fighter pilots of the elite 332nd Fighter Group were intended to encourage positive public attitudes about the fitness of black service members to handle demanding military jobs. Image 1: Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe. Image 2: Frida Kahlo (Senora Diego Rivera) seated next to an agave plant, during a photo shoot for Vogue magazine, "Senoras of Mexico,” 1937. Image 3: Black fighter pilot series: "Escape kits" (cyanide) being distributed to fighter pilots at air base in southern Italy, 1945

Congratulations to Louise Glück, just announced as recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature! Glück served as 12th U.S. Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress in 2003-04. She is also the recipient of the 1992 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize. Read more about Glück in the link in today's IG story. Photo by Sigrid Estrada.

Now in our Free to Use and Reuse sets: Halloween! See our homepage at loc.gov for more images to use for your spooky festivities! Image: October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read! Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween. Albert M. Bender, artist, between 1936-1940.

Did you miss Q&As with authors, artists, and creators last week at the National Book Festival? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Recorded Q&As are available on the Library's YouTube page. Image: Redding, California. Youngsters at the beach. Nitrate negative by Russell Lee, 1942. Prints & Photographs Division.

The popular "leaf peeping" has begun in parts of the country, though you can take a peek at autumnal scenes without the drive in our Popular Graphic Arts Collection. Image: Camping out. Chromolithograph, c1883 by Krebs Lithographing Co. Prints & Photographs Division.

It's and the cameras will turn to them! Join us as we highlight a photographer and their work from our collections every Friday in October. Today's feature is Robert Cornelius in what is believed to be the earliest extant American portrait photo in late 1839! (Daguerreotype Collection/Prints and Photographs Division)

Happy October, everyone! What's on your fall reading list? Image: Autumn scene near Millen in northern Georgia. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2013. (Prints and Photographs Division)

Lights, camera, action! On this date 60 years ago, "The Flintstones" appeared on televisions across the nation. Image: A "photo op" location at Flintstones Bedrock City, a theme park near Arizona's Grand Canyon. Digital photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division.

The Bedford Coffee Pot no longer dishes out coffee along the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, but it certainly makes us crave a cup. Image: New Bedford, Pennsylvania. An eating place near the Greyhound bus stop. OWI Photo by Esther Bubley, 1943. Prints & Photographs Division.

Inspiration in wood. Replicas of this medieval church in Norway have been built in both North Dakota and Florida. Image: Christiannia. Gols Kirke. Photochrom print by Photoglob Co., around 1900. From the Photochrom Prints Collection. Prints & Photographs Division.