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Posted by: Erin Allen
The following is a feature from the May/June 2015 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. Co-curators Daniel Boomhower and Walter Zvonchenko of the Music Division highlight items from the Library’s exhibition, “Grand Illusion: The Art of Theatrical Design.” This week is your last chance to stop by the Library to see what’s on …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, Music, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
The printing press that helped spread world-changing ideas of revolution, liberty and self-governance through early America grew from a humble beginning: a small, error-filled book of religious devotion, produced by a locksmith for settlers forging a home in the North American wilderness. A new Library of Congress exhibition explores early printing in the American colonies, …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Collections, Congress, Curators, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest blog post by Julie Miller, early American historian in the Manuscript Division.) In 1766, Philadelphia shopkeeper Rebecca Steel advertised that she had for sale “Dry Goods, Bohea, Green, Hyson, and Congo Teas &c. as usual, at the most reasonable Rates,” and also “a Parcel of fine silks” that she would …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
The following is an article from the March/April 2015 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM, in celebration of both Women’s History Month (March) and National Poetry Month (April). The issue can be downloaded in its entirety here. American history specialist Rosemary Fry Plakas highlights several women poets whose works are represented in the …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Curators, Manuscripts, Poetry, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following blog post is by Jennifer Harbster, a science research specialist and blogger for the Library’s Science, Technology, and Busines blog, “Inside Adams.” Harbster also helped create the Library of Congress Women’s History Month board on Pinterest.) March is designated as Women’s History Month and this year the National Women’s History Project has selected …
Posted in: Blogging, Collections, Curators, Education, History, Law Library, Manuscripts, Photos, Pinterest, Women's History
Posted by: Erin Allen
The Library’s big headline for February was the opening of the Rosa Park Collection to researchers on Feb. 4, which was also the birthday of the civil-rights icon. “A cache of Parks’s papers set to be unveiled Tuesday at the Library of Congress portrays a battle-tested activist who had been steeped in the struggle against …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Collections, Curators, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Music, News, Newspapers
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, Civil War and Reconstruction Specialist in the Manuscript Division. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, for a limited time [March 4-7, 2015] the Library of Congress will display both the four-page manuscript copy and the reading copy of the address in the Great Hall …
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Capitol Hill, Civil War, Collections, Curators, Education, Events, Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, News, Newspapers, Today in History, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post written by Meg McAleer, senior archives specialist in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.) Archivists have wonderful jobs. Four colleagues – Kimberly Owens, Tammi Taylor, Tracey Barton and Sherralyn McCoy – and I shared nods of understanding, delight and awe often during the last two months of 2014 as …
Posted in: Collections, Curators, History, Manuscripts
Posted by: Erin Allen
A tiny, handwritten “T” at the bottom of page 113 offered a clue that this book – long part of the Law Library collections – needed a new home: the permanent exhibition of Thomas Jefferson’s library. Every four months, Anna Bryan and other catalogers in the U.S./Anglo Division’s Rare Materials Section work on an ongoing …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Cataloging, Collections, Curators, History, Law Library, Libraries, Washington DC