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Archive: March 2019 (19 Posts)

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Pic of the Week: Harriet Tubman, Seen as Never Before

Posted by: Neely Tucker

In a March 25 ceremony, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and National Museum of African American History and Culture Director Lonnie Bunch unveiled the photo album of abolionist Emily Howland, featuring a previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman. The portrait, taken around 1868, captures Tubman in her mid 40s, years younger than most surviving photographs that show her late in life

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Opening Day! A Video Tour of Library’s Baseball Americana

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Major League Baseball starts today, which makes it the start of spring, never mind the official calendar. We remind you that your friendly national Library is just a long fly ball from Nationals Park, where the Nats open today against the New York Mets. If you haven’t made it to our Baseball Americana exhibit, it’s …

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Branch Rickey Crowdsourcing Project: It’s Outta Here!

Posted by: Neely Tucker

This is a guest post from Lauren Algee, LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist.  Just four months after the Library partnered with the public to transcribe the papers of baseball icon Branch Rickey, volunteers have transcribed all 1,926 pages of Rickey’s scouting reports, making them available for digital research just in time for Major League Baseball’s …

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Suffragists in Song

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Suffrage songs were a significant part of the movement for the 19th Amendment, with novelty pieces such as "She's Good Enough to Have Your Baby and She's Good Enough to Vote with You" lending a sense of humor to the campaign.

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Long-lost Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz Letters Now at the Library

Posted by: Neely Tucker

A never-seen-before collection of letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz offers new insight into the couple's art, marriage and ambitions during an eighteen-year span in which they were primary shapers of American Modernism. The letters were sent, independently of one another, to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, with whom O'Keeffe seemed especially close. The Library acquired them from a private collection. This is the first time they have been available to the public.