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Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Richard Cantillon was an Irish-born banker who made his fortune, and several enemies, across early 18th century Europe. When a fire consumed his London home in 1734, including a body found within, the initial reports pointed to a tragic accident.
Posted in: Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
Explore New York City at the turn of the 19th century through two recently acquired copies of David Longworth's The New York Directory and Register for 1798 and 1806.
Posted in: Business, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Nate Smith
The Library of Congress recently acquired Alessandro Piccolomini's 1566 edition of La Sfera del Mondo and De La Stelle Fisse, often regarded as the first printed star atlas. This work by Alessandro Piccolomini was the first to offer an entry into amateur astronomy for the non-scholar.
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, History of Science and Technology, Rare Books and Special Collections, Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
John Dunlap, a Philadelphia printer at the time of the American Revolution, may be known for printing the Declaration of Independence, but he also printed currency for his new country.
Posted in: Business, Rare Books and Special Collections
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
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
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Today’s guest post is by Jacqueline Coleburn and Anthony Mullan. Jackie is a rare book cataloger at the Library of Congress and is cataloging the Library’s rare children’s books. Peter Parley books are a particular interest of hers. These books, which were very popular in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, offer insight into the evolution …
Posted in: Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post was written by Nancy Groce, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who is a Senior Folklife Specialist in the American Folklife Center. After years of planning, research, fieldwork, and archiving, the American Folklife Center is excited to begin online posting of material from its Occupational Folklife Project, a major oral history initiative featuring in-depth interviews …
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Nancy Lovas
This is the fourth post in a series addressing digital scholarship in business and economic history related to Library of Congress collections. Read the first post, second post, and third post. In my last post, I talked about how I started to learn to read a Sanborn map. I left out one last piece of advice. …
Posted in: Business, Digital Scholarship and Data, Rare Books and Special Collections