Free to Use and Reuse: Glasses
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress's Free to Use and Reuse set of copyright-free photographs and prints features eyeglasses this month.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, U.S. Presidents
Archive: December 2019 (6 Posts)
The Nazi War Atlas of Operation Barbarossa
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A Nazi commemorative atlas of Operations Barbarossa was captured by U.S. troops after the fall of Berlin in World War II. The only one known to exist, it is housed in the Geography and Maps Division.
Posted in: History, Maps, World War II
Dear (Whoever You Are), Here’s the First Christmas Card
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The story of the very first commercial Christmas card, the 1843 creation of British arts patron Henry Cole and illustrator John Calcott Horsley.
Name That Actress…If You Can
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The young woman in this photograph, likely an actress around 1970, has eluded identification by readers, despite dozens of guesses. We renew the search.
Posted in: National Film Preservation Board, Photos
Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: A Short Documentary
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The writings and social activism of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, as read and remembered by Bryan Stevenson, Condoleezza Rice, Ken Burns, Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon Robinson and others in this short documentary.
Posted in: Civil Rights, Exhibitions, Film, Video
Thomas Jefferson: A Man of the Pasta
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Thomas Jefferson, future president, designed a macaroni-making machine, one of his many inventions drawn and described in his papers at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: History, Technology, U.S. Presidents