Library Makes an Unsplash
Posted by: John Sayers
The Library of Congress has launched a continuing selection of rights-free images from its collections on the Unsplash stock photo website.
Posted in: New Online, Photos, Social Media
Archive: January 2020 (8 Posts)
American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The recently digitized records of the AFL in the Library's Manuscript Division reveals the complexities of the organization as it struggled with race and ethnicity, often in deeply problematic ways.
Posted in: Manuscripts
Letters Give an Intimate Look at Classic Hollywood Era
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Filmmaker Rocky Lang talks about how he recently teamed up with film historian Barbara Hall to publish “Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking,” drawn on correspondence from several collections, including from the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Film, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Researching the U.S. Supreme Court at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library's collection of more than 35 U.S. Supreme Court justices make up the largest Supreme Court documents collection in the nation.
Posted in: Law Library, Manuscripts
‘Lost Girls’ Artwork from the Holocaust
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
A small collection in the Library’s Manuscript Division preserves drawings created by children who survived Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Posted in: Holocaust, Jewish American History, Women's History, World War II
Free to Use and Reuse: Maps of Discovery and Exploration
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Exploration into the unknown -- when much of the world's surface was not accurately mapped -- is the theme of this month's edition of the Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free material.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Maps
Inventing the Modern World
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library of Congress houses a multitude of papers, blueprints, recordings, drawings, images and artifacts that document the dazzling era of American invention, from the 1850s to the 1910s.
Posted in: Education, Manuscripts, Science, Technology
The Man Who Recorded The World
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Alan Lomax papers at the LIbrary of Congress are now available for transcription at By the People, www.crowd.loc.gov.
Posted in: American Folklife Center, By the People, New Online