Washington Post: “There are more than 15 million photographic images in the Library of Congress’s holdings, so the chance of encountering anything familiar in an exhibition of a mere 400 of them is statistically slight. But “Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library” begins with the reassuringly familiar.The first section, titled “Icons,” displays reproductions of the library’s most requested photos, which include pictures of Abraham Lincoln and the Wright brothers, as well as Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” and Gordon Parks’s “American Gothic.” People may not know those last two photos by their titles but will probably recognize the stark images of, respectively, a Dust Bowl-era refugee in California in 1936 and a Black cleaning woman in D.C. in 1942. Also featured in this section is an 1839 photo that has become renowned as the first selfie: Philadelphian Robert Cornelius’s self-portrait, made just months after Louis Daguerre announced his daguerreotype photographic process — and more than 150 years before the debut of the iPhone…Divided into 11 thematic sections, the show includes about 70 reproductions, some of them big enough to cover the large windows on the building’s southwest facade. The rest of the pictures rotate in slide shows on video screens…”

• Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE. 202-707-9779. loc.gov. Dates: Through fall 2024.