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Posted by: Nate Smith
In the summer of 1860, three American scientists set out on an epic months-long journey into the Canadian north, where indigenous guides hauled them hundreds of miles up the Saskatchewan River to catch sight of a total solar eclipse.
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, History of Science and Technology, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
2020 Junior Fellow Bailey Ward continues her journey learning about the Library of Congress collections as she starts her project on trade beads.
Posted in: Business, Guest Blog Posts
Posted by: Nate Smith
A post about the use of balloon travel illustrations in Peter Parley's publications.
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Guest Blog Posts
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
There were plans around the globe to celebrate the 50th birthday of Earth Day on April 22 with the theme "climate action." However, with the worldwide spread of Covid-19, events have been canceled and new ones have gone digital for the first time.
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Brendan Bachmann, a visiting library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Horoscopes have long been popular with those hoping for a glimpse of their future. Indeed, some individuals have made a business of the mystical, profiting from people’s curiosity of the unknown. A horoscope pamphlet that has recently …
Posted in: Business, Guest Blog Posts
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Samuel G. Goodrich, known to his young readers as Peter Parley, published the first illustration of dinosaurs in an American children's book in 1840.
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Brendan Bachmann is a library science student from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He spent two weeks with Business Reference staff at the Library of Congress in January 2020. Coming from a very different background, having worked for six years in various public libraries in Australia, it has been a fascinating experience spending two weeks …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter;" first appeared in print February 19, 1876 in the New York Daily Tribune as part of a preview of the volume Two Rivulets (1876). Published just seven years after the union of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, Whitman's poem "To a Locomotive in Winter" considers the dynamic relationship between the railroad and nature.
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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is the second post exploring Samuel Griswold Goodrich's Peter Parley books educating young and curious minds.
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Rare Books and Special Collections