Rest in Peace, Queen Elizabeth II
Posted by: John Sayers
A remembrance of a visit by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to the Library of Congress in 1991.
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Literacy Awards: Thomas Jefferson Would Have Approved
Posted by: John Sayers
(The following is a guest post by Guy Lamolinara, communications officer in the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.) Thomas Jefferson, the Library of Congress’s spiritual founder, wrote about the pursuit of happiness. “I like to think that literacy is fundamental to that pursuit. So many doors are closed to those who …
David Seymour (CHIM), Photographer of the Spanish Civil War
Posted by: John Sayers
The following is a guest post by Beverly Brannan, Curator of Photography, Prints and Photographs Division, and first appeared on the Library’s “Picture This” blog. Photographer David Seymour (CHIM), with three Leica cameras around his neck. Photographer unknown, ca. 1950. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppbd.00599 When I read For Whom the Bell Tolls in my junior year of high …