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Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
The Science, Technology & Business Division accepted volumes of Linen Supply News, Textile Rental, and Industrial Launderer, trade journals of TRSA. Stretching from the 1920s to the 1980s, these publications covered a broad range of industry issues including pay and benefits, sales, legislation, and technology.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
During the holiday season there are many diverse traditions. One food that is traditional in many Latine households is tamales, prepared at a tamalada, or tamale making party. Tamales are a Mesoamerican dish made with nixtimalized cornmeal dough—masa—steamed in a cornmeal husk, or banana leaf, and seasoned with cheese, beans, meats, and other flavors.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Hispanic American History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Read about a new acquisition of a broadside from Ephraim Wales Bull, the farmer who developed the the Concord grape.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Brian Jimenez, a Library of Congress Fall 2022 intern, answers five questions about his internship developing Indigenous Food and Foodways collections with the Science, Technology and Business Division .
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Five Questions
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
E.B. Meyrowitz made the spectacles and the steel case that held them, which likely saved Roosevelt's life as he was the intended target of an assassin's bullet the evening of October 14, 1912.
Posted in: Business, Presidents
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Alice Foote MacDougall was a coffee house entrepreneur of the early 20th century; read a little about her story.
Posted in: Biography, Business, Women's History
Posted by: Sean Bryant
On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 10:30a.m. EST, on Zoom, the Library of Congress will host a Library Health Services Division sponsored, virtual panel discussion on advancements in cancer prevention, detection, and treatment. The event will bring together White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative representative, Dr. Danielle Carnival, and leading scientists, Dr. G.P. Yeh, Dr. Hans-Georg Rammensee and Dr. Louis Weiner.
Posted in: Health Sciences, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, about 25-30 million real Christmas trees sold in the U.S. every year with 350 million real Christmas trees currently growing on Christmas tree farms in the U.S.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Potatoes at the Library? How to get started with research on the world's most exemplary vegetable.
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food