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By: Lisa Taylor
The following is a guest post by Justina Moloney, a Library of Congress Junior Fellow who worked with the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. Correspondence, be it analog or email, is a running theme within the collections of the Veterans History Project. Of the nine World War I collections I worked with this summer, …
Posted in: Folklife Today
The following is a guest post by Leslie Granillo, a Junior Fellow in the Prints & Photographs Division, Summer 2017 This summer I’ve been lucky enough to work with a wonderful collection of Photochroms. Going through them has been like taking a vacation through Europe, with the added advantage of being able to travel back in …
Posted in: Picture This
By: Cary O’Dell
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, August 24 (7:30 p.m.) Platinum Blonde (Columbia, 1931) Jean Harlow is the title character in this romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra. Originally intended as a vehicle for starlet Loretta Young, who is top billed, the name was changed from Gallagher (Young’s …
Posted in: Now See Hear!
By: Travis Hensley
The following is a guest post by Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, who is based at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and currently in residence at The John W. Kluge Center as the Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies. The Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress includes, among other materials, recordings, photographs, diaries, notebooks and letters documenting Alan Lomax’s …
Posted in: Insights
By: Kate Zwaard
This the text of my talk from the Collections as Data: IMPACT. Once the videos of the individual talks are processed and available, we’ll share those with you here — in the meanwhile, you can watch starting at minute 6:45 in the video of the entire event. Welcome to Collections as Data! When we hosted …
Posted in: The Signal
The following is a guest post by Katherine Blood, Curator of Fine Prints, Prints & Photographs Division and Linda Stiber Morenus, Special Assistant to the Director of Scholarly & Educational Programs and longtime paper conservator. Known for his credo “Art for Art’s Sake,” American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) was a virtuoso etcher whose …
Posted in: Picture This
I’m always reminding myself how fortunate I am to live in an area that offers not only great classical music, theater and dance performances, but many popular music performers make a stop, especially during the summer. Being a child of the sixties, rock and roll concerts usually meant performances in smoky nightclubs (missed out on …
Posted in: NLS Music Notes
By: Jaime Mears
This is a friendly reminder that our 2nd annual Collections as Data event will be livestreamed TODAY starting at 9:30am. Watch it on the Library of Congress YouTube channel and Facebook page and follow #AsData on Twitter. Click here for the full agenda including talks from Ed Ayers, Paul Ford, Sarah Hatton, Tahir Hemphill …
Posted in: The Signal
By: George Thuronyi
The following is a guest post by Claire Cahoon, a rising senior at Ithaca College, who is diving into history this summer at the U.S. Copyright Office, as part of the Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program. You never know what you’re going to find digging through the archives of Copyright deposits—it could be a …
Posted in: Copyright
By: Cary O’Dell
Eli Cook River of Blues: A Performance Celebrating the Story of Blues Music in America The legendary Son House (1902-1988) was known to say “Blues is a feelin’.” Eli Cook’s music expresses that same raw honesty in a unique blend of contemporary and old-school styles, creating an original sound at the fore-front of modern Blues …
Posted in: Now See Hear!