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Movie poster for "El Norte," with an illustration of young man and woman at bottom, framed by a silhouette of a bird opening its wings into a blue sky overhead

Finding Latinos in Film

Color photo at sunset, with dark blue sky with clouds in the distance. In the foreground, an illulminated glass pyramid is flanked by classical french buildings.

The Great Pyramid of Pei

Wide shot of a woman looking up at a giant Redwood tree. The photo only shows the base of the tree, which is nearly 75 feet in circumference.

Ada Limón & Poetry in the National Parks!

A book cover featuring a 19th century head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in a dark suitcoat, turned sideways to face the artist. He has a serious gaze and a long handlebar moustache.

Richard Morris Hunt: Architect of the Gilded Age

Half length photo of Louis Bayard seated at a desk in the Main Reading Room looking through two 19th century books.

Louis Bayard’s Novel Research at the Library

Black and white shot of five Black boys dressed in suits and ties, seriously looking at the photographer, if front of a glass store front of a barbeque shop.

Ralph Ellison, Photographer

The illuminated Capitol Building, shown from a distance, with a blue-black sky in the background.

Inventing the Capitol Building

Color photo of a smiling girl in a classroom wearing a head scarf.

Laundromats, Refugee Camps and Other LOC Literacy Winners

Postcards from America