This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference & Research Specialist, in the Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress. She is also author of the blog posts “Kebabs, Kabobs, Shish Kebabs, Shashlyk, and: Chislic” and “The Potato Transformed.” I grew up in the small town of Canton, South Dakota. A …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The Hubble, the first space-based optical telescope, has been circling the Earth and making observations for nearly 28 years since its launch in April 1990. Just this week it has had its eye on a relic galaxy, NGC …
This is the third post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post and the second post. I have been making steady, if slow, progress on the next steps I outlined in my last post. identifying a place to focus on which will …
This great black and white photo taken some time between 1900 and 1906 features a restaurant in New Orleans at the corner of Decatur and Madison – right down the street from Jackson Square. The restaurant – H. Bégué’s Exchange – was opened in 1863 by husband and wife Hippolyte Bégué and Elizabeth Kettenring Dutreuil …
