Maps: A 17th-Century Korean View of the World
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Ch'onhado is a type of Korean quasi-cosmographical depiction that means "map of the world beneath the heavens." This colorful map is a gorgeous example of the form.
Posted in: LCM
Archive: 2021 (124 Posts)
Sondheim at the Library: A Friendship with “Steve”
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist in the Music Division, recounts his long friendship with Stephen Sondheim and how the maestro's papers will come to the Library.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Music, Performing Arts, Theater
Researcher Stories: Civil War Photographs, “Chlorophyll Prints” and Robert Schultz
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
For years, artist Robert Schultz has made creative reuse of historical Civil War-era images, developing photographs from the Library's Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Portraits in the flesh of tree and plant leaves found on former battlefields. It turned out so well that the Library has acquired some of his art.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Photos, Researcher Stories
It’s As If It Was Written in…Clay. For 4,200 Years.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Clay tablets with an ancient writing system known as cuneiform are more than 4,000 years old, among the oldest items in the Library's collections.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division, LCM
China’s Colossal Encyclopedia
Posted by: Neely Tucker
China's colossal Yongle encyclopedia, published in the 15th century, comprised 22,937 hand-copied sections bound into 11,095 volumes. It was intended to comprise all knowledge available to Chinese civilizations.
Posted in: Asian Division, Books, LCM
Researcher Stories: Armand Lione and the Search for Native American History in D.C.
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
American Indians walked the land where the nation's capital city now stands long before Europeans arrived. Local historian Armand Lione shares that history when he talks about his research, much of which is conducted at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Native Americans, Researcher Stories, Washington DC
Friends, Gifts & Giving: Kaffie Milikin
Posted by: John Sayers
Kaffie Milikin, director of development at the Library, talks about her job and the new Friends of the Library of Congress support group.
Posted in: Libraries, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Pre-Prohibition Mixology!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has a delightfully curated selection of 19th- and early 20th-century bartender manuals, "American Mixology: Recipe Books from the Pre-Prohibition Era," composed of 10 cocktail recipe books, from 1869 to 1911, They form a "cross-section of pre-Prohibition cocktail culture in America," our specialist writes.
Posted in: Technology & Business Division
Native American Maps (and Ideas) that Shaped the Nation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Native American historical influences on the United States, in everything from state names to influences for the U.S. Constitution, are apparent everywhere you look.
Posted in: Native Americans