PIc of the Week: Roses Edition
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Close-up of roses, from memorial service for former Librarian of Congress James Billington.
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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Close-up of roses, from memorial service for former Librarian of Congress James Billington.
Posted in: Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Associated Press's Washington Bureau News Dispatches between the tumultuous years between 1915 and 1930 are now available online at the Library.
Posted in: New Online, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Doris Day photographs at the LIbrary of Congress include 1940s portraits by the legendary photographer William P. Gottlieb.
Posted in: Music, Photos, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Pre-modern artists used almost anything to create vibrant colors for art and fabrics: bug guts, squid bones, shredded wood, hardened tree sap, walnut rinds, lye, tannic acid, iron sulfate, wine and, um, urine. Today, the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division is now recreating those colors the old-fashioned way as part of a newly developing field of preservation science.
Posted in: Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Gayle Osterberg leaves the Library after a stellar run as the Library's director of communications.
Posted in: Libraries, News, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress recently acquired one of the most famous Black Ship scrolls -- "Kinkai kikan" ("Strange View off the Coast of Kanagawa") by Otsuki Bankei, a Japanese artist and scholar -- that depicts the arrival of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet of steamships in Edo Bay in 1854. The gunboat diplomacy established American relations with Japan.
Posted in: Asian American History, History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The LIbrary's Rare Persian Manuscript Collection is now online after a four-year digitization project, anchored by three gorgeous manuscript copies of The Shahnamah, or the Persian Book of Kings, a 1,000-year-old epic that is the foundation for the modern language.
Posted in: Events, Manuscripts
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"Don't take candy from strangers." Little Charley Ross, the first missing child to make national headlines, made that mistake.
Posted in: News, Newspapers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Two hundred years after his birth, Walt Whitman remains a towering figure. The Library of Congress, with the world's largest collection of Whitman's writings, marks the bicentennial with a flurry of events.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Washington DC