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Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blog introduces the “Illustrated Album of Yangzhou Prefecture,” a collection of illustrated maps with detailed descriptions of regions in the Chinese prefecture of Yangzhou.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
As reference librarians, we work hard to connect researchers with the materials they need, or might not even know they need. However, every now and then we pause to contemplate the first printers and publishers, without whom our jobs possibly would not exist. Such contemplation is particularly easy to do in the Library of Congress’ …
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
(The following is a post by Juan Manuel Pérez, Reference Specialist, Hispanic Division) During the American Civil War (1861-65), as the Union Navy of the North was putting a chokehold on the Southern Confederacy by its naval blockade, the Confederate government of the South sought to break it by trying to purchase or build warships in …
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room