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Pic of the Week: Harriet Tubman, Seen as Never Before

Posted by: Neely Tucker

In a March 25 ceremony, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and National Museum of African American History and Culture Director Lonnie Bunch unveiled the photo album of abolionist Emily Howland, featuring a previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman. The portrait, taken around 1868, captures Tubman in her mid 40s, years younger than most surviving photographs that show her late in life

Posted in: Civil Rights, Civil War, Photos, Pic of the Week, Women's History

Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Long-lost Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz Letters Now at the Library

Posted by: Neely Tucker

A never-seen-before collection of letters from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz offers new insight into the couple's art, marriage and ambitions during an eighteen-year span in which they were primary shapers of American Modernism. The letters were sent, independently of one another, to their mutual friend, filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz, with whom O'Keeffe seemed especially close. The Library acquired them from a private collection. This is the first time they have been available to the public.

Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Photos, Women's History