Curator’s Picks: Copyright
Posted by: Neely Tucker
George Thuronyi, the deputy director of Public Information and Education for the Copyright Office, chooses favorite historical items submitted for copyright registration.
Category: Curators
An 1848 Christmas Story: The Gift of Freedom
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Research and Reference Services Division. December is a month of holidays and festivities that bring families and friends together to celebrate their good fortune and look forward to the year ahead. For the enslaved couple William and Ellen Craft, the …
Posted in: Books, Civil Rights, Curators
Hispanic Heritage Month: Early Titles by the Americas’ First Printing Press
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by John Hessler, curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the History and Archaeology of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. On June 12, 1539, a boat set sail from the Spanish city of Seville containing a cargo that would change the face of the Americas forever. …
Posted in: Curators, Hispanic American History, Manuscripts
Hispanic Heritage Month: New Tools Uncover Surprises in Diego Rivera Paintings
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a quest post by John Hessler, curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the History and Archaeology of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress. He describes research and analysis he conducted with Tana Villafana and Meghan Wilson of the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division and Stephanie Stillo of the …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Hispanic American History, Manuscripts, Preservation, Science
Talking Textiles: Marvels of Pre-Columbian America
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Rosemary Ryan, an archaeological research fellow at the Library. She is a student at Towson University specializing in forensic anthropology and archaeology. Her research at the Library supports the “Exploring the Early Americas” exhibit and the Jay I. Kislak Collection, made up of more than 3,000 items related to …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Preservation, Researcher Stories
Baseball Americana: A House of Cards
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Welcome to week eight of our blog series for “Baseball Americana,” a major new Library of Congress exhibition opening June 29. This is the eighth of nine posts – we’re publishing one each Thursday leading up to the opening. In this post, Sara Duke, curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and …
Posted in: Baseball, Collections, Curators, Exhibitions
Leonard Bernstein Centennial: The Mind of a Maestro
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Mark Horowitz of the Music Division. It is reprinted from the May–June issue of LCM, the Library of Congress magazine. Titled “Brilliant Broadway,” the entire issue is available online. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, the Library has dramatically expanded – by some 2,400 items …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Music
On Exhibit: Herblock Looks at 1968
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division. She highlights three of the 10 new cartoons installed this spring the Herblock Gallery of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building. New drawings from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection are introduced into …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Exhibitions
New Webinar Series: Discover the Library’s Ancient Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library of Congress holds three of fewer than 100 surviving Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts that predate 1600: the Huexotzinco Codex (1531), the Oztoticpac Lands Map (1540) and the newly acquired Codex Quetzalecatzin (1570–95). On three Wednesdays this spring, starting on March 14, John Hessler of the Library’s Geography and Map Division will host webinars exploring …
Posted in: Curators, Manuscripts, Maps