Notre Dame Cathedral in the 1860s
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Some of the Library's rare photographs of a newly restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in the 1860s.
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Pic of the Week: Marty Stuart Edition
Posted by: Neely Tucker
You never know who will turn up at your favorite national library, and the other day it was none other than country music legend Marty Stuart, who dropped by to visit with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The Mississippi native started performing professionally as a pre-teen, and grew into a singer, songwriter and multi-threat …
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“Queer Eye” for the Library!
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The cast of the Netflix series "Queer Eye" came to the Library for an on-stage conversation with Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator.
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Pic of the Week: “Queer Eye” Cast Lights Up the Library
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The cast of "Queer Eye" discuss LGBTQ+ youth issues during a conversation wtih moderator Jonathan Capehart, April 3, 2019
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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
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Pic of the Week: Code Girls Reunion
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Veterans History Project hosts a special reunion of World War II veteran Code Girls, March 22, 2019. Codebreakers Nancy Tipton and Katherine Fleming chat with Liza Mundy, who wrote of their efforts in "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II."
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Pic of the Week
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Taking to the Constitution Hall stage during the Gershwin Prize concert the evening of March 13, co-honoree Gloria Estefan and her daughter, Emily, sang a duet of “Embraceable You,” one of the Gershwin brothers’ standards, near the show’s end. The concert was taped for broadcast on PBS on May 3, 2019.
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Pic of the Week: Dr. Carla Hayden Testifies Before Congress
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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden testifies before the Senate Rule Committee, March 6, 2019.
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Pic of the Week: James Baldwin’s “Little Man, Little Man”
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Aisha Karefa-Smart, James Baldwin’s niece, reads from a recently released edition of “Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood,” the only children’s book Baldwin wrote, at a Library of Congress panel discussion on Feb. 28, 2019. Karefa-Smart, a D.C.-based author, wrote the book’s afterword. The book was originally written in 1971, when Baldwin was …
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