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: 2019 (119 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
The Mystery of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Photograph
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A conservator at the Library believes she has identified John Wood, an almost forgotten government photographer, as the man who took an iconic image of the first Lincoln inauguration.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Photos, U.S. Presidents, Washington DC
“The Crown” At the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Insights from the Library's holdings into Season 3 of "The Crown."
Posted in: Manuscripts
New! A Gorgeous Guide to the Kislak Collection
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Library curator John Hessler's new book, “Collecting for a New World: Treasures of the Early Americas,” explores the treasures of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas.
Posted in: Collections, Jay I. Kislak Collection, Researcher Stories