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Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following story, written by Center for the Book intern Maria Comé, is featured in the September/October 2015 issue of the LCM, which you can read in it’s entirety here.) Sept. 2, 1945, marked the end of World War II, following the surrender of the Japanese to the Allied forces. Seventy years later, researchers can access the …
Posted in: Collections, History, Maps, Veterans History Project
Posted by: Erin Allen
The following post is by Elizabeth Pieri, one of 36 college students who participated in the Library’s Junior Fellow Summer Intern Program. She’s in her fourth year at Rochester Institute of Technology, as a motion picture science major. Because her program focuses on the fundamental imaging technologies used in the motion picture industry, she was …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Libraries, Maps, Technology
Posted by: Erin Allen
The “hero of two worlds” – as the Marquis de Lafayette has been called – has recently been in the news. A replica of the 18th century French frigate that ferried him to America on his most important mission has been making the rounds of the East Coast, on a journey to commemorate the …
Posted in: Books, Collections, Congress, History, Manuscripts, Maps
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a story in the January/February 2015 issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, LCM. You can read the issue in its entirety here.) Conservation Division chief Elmer Eusman discusses conservation treatment options for a variety of prized collection items. Pre-Columbian Objects “Collections such as this classic Maya whistling vessel, dated A.D 400-600, …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Maps, Photos, Preservation, Science, Technology
Posted by: Jennifer Gavin
Many larger-than-life figures have served as the Librarian of Congress. As the Library once again plays host to that seminal document affirming the rule of law, Magna Carta, today we shine a spotlight on the man who was Librarian of Congress when the great charter first visited the Library – Archibald MacLeish. MacLeish, before his …
Posted in: Books, Capitol Hill, Collections, Congress, History, LC Web site, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, Poetry, Washington DC
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Engraver Abel Buell “came out of nowhere,” at least in terms of cartography, when he printed a United States map in 1784. “He’d never done a map before,” says Edward Redmond of the Library’s Geography and Map Division. Nonetheless, Buell set records. He was the first U.S. citizen to print a map of the United …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Collections, Copyright, Exhibitions, History, LC Web site, Maps, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(From time to time, we’ll feature the story of one of our many researchers here at the Library and the discoveries they made using our collections. The following is the story of Meg Kennedy Shaw, who conducted research on her father, a British desert explorer, botanist and archaeologist.) Meg Kennedy Shaw has made many trips to …
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Collections, Libraries, Maps, Researcher Stories, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by Julie Miller, early American specialist in the Manuscript Division.) People who visit the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress often ask where our collections come from. Sometimes the answers are surprising. This is true for a journal kept in 1783 by a Revolutionary War veteran from Pennsylvania …
Posted in: Exhibitions, History, Manuscripts, Maps
Posted by: Erin Allen
The idea was as big as the planet itself: Gather and digitize the globe’s cultural treasures, assemble them on one website and make them available to the world for free and in multiple languages. Such a project, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in proposing it, would bring people together by “celebrating the uniqueness …
Posted in: Collections, Education, History, LC Web site, Manuscripts, Maps, Music, Photos, Today in History