Pic of the Week: Circa 1973 shelf locations
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Do you want to know where the books at the Library were in 1973?
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Pic of the Week: Temple of Knowledge
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
A beautiful night image of the John Adams Building.
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Pics of the Week: Sequoyah
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post is about a door detail of Sequoyah on the bronze door of the John Adams Building.
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Pic of the Week: National Ice Cream Days of the Past
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In 2010 Jennifer Harbster, my co-blogger, did a post about ice cream that mentioned the beginning of National Ice Cream Month in 1984, but I ran across this advertisement in Chronicling America that ran in the Washington Times on May 26, 1920. This was long before Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month …
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Pic of the Week: Scientific Treasures
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This week I participated in the Science at Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science meeting hosted by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). During this two-day meeting the Library’s recently-retired manuscript specialist Len Bruno took us on a journey through the scientific treasures of the Library’s Manuscript Division. On display were items …
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Pic of the Week: How to Get a Book at the Library of Congress – 1902
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post features a short description from a 1902 article on how to request a book at the Library of Congress.
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Pic of the Week: Space Shuttle Discovery
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
If you were in the Washington, D.C. area this morning (April 17), you were treated to a fly-by of the Space Shuttle Discovery riding piggy-back on a 747 as it made its way to the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located near Dulles International Airport. I did not want to miss …
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Pic of the Week: SEC! SEC! SEC!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
And no, sports fans, I do not mean the Southeastern Conference of college athletics fame. In this case I am talking about the Securities & Exchange Commission. In the Science & Business Reading Room, we have a microfiche set of SEC company filings that is one of our more regularly used items. I have featured …
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Pic of the Week: Pretty Maids all in a Row
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This photograph of the bollards that run down 2nd Street SE next to the Adams Building was taken in late 2010. What caught my eye was how the bollards with just a bit of snow on top reminded me of the paintings of ladies wearing powdered wigs and ruffs, collars, or fichu. At first I …
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