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Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library's scroll from Gandhara, an early Buddhist center along the borders of modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, is one of the Library's most precious treasures.
Posted in: Preservation, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Alan Gephardt is a ranger at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site of the U.S. National Park Service in Mentor, Ohio. Here, he writes about what his job entails.
Posted in: History, Manuscripts, Preservation, Researcher Stories, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Sylvia Albro, a senior paper conservator in the Conservation Division. Earlier this month, the Library released online the Omar Ibn Said Collection, including Ibn Said’s autobiography, the only known extant autobiography written in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United States. A wealthy and educated man, Ibn Said …
Posted in: Collections, Manuscripts, Preservation