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The Persian Book Lecture Series on Video, an Educational Resource, Now Available Online

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following post is by Hirad Dinavari, reference specialist for the Iranian World Collections, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.) In conjunction with the 2014 exhibition: “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book” at the Library of Congress, we in AMED teamed up with Roshan Persian Studies Institute at University of …

Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Exhibitions, Lecture Series, Lectures, Near East Section, Videos

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Becoming Jacob Riis

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division.) The Library of Congress exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives’ explores the work of a pioneering Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer. The Library’s Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) papers and Riis’s photographs from the Museum of the City of New York …

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