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Made at the Library: The Declaration in Script and Print

Kewpie-style babies marching with fife and drum, holding yellow flag that reads "Votes for Women"

“The Spirit of ’76” Marches On: Inspiring the Fight for Women’s Equality

A black and white etching of an enclosed stage coach.

Margaret Hunter Hall: Reluctant Traveler to the Antebellum United States

Monochrome sketch of soldiers walking along jungle path

A Historian at War: The Unpublished Guadalcanal Diaries of Herbert Christian Laing Merillat

Published engraved image showing a crowd observing the balloon "Intrepid," leaving the ground in the distance.

Nothing Happens in Washington without a Purchase Order: William J. Rhees and Thaddeus Lowe’s Balloons, 1861.

Scrap of paper with handwriting in pen and pencil

More Walt Whitman Manuscripts Ready for Crowdsourced Transcription

Mary Oliver as preteen squatting near stream, looking backward at camera.

Mary Oliver: Poet of the Natural World: A Library of Congress Exhibit Celebrates Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver

Large family group posed on a beach, all dressed in white.

Of Note: Family, Fashion, and Filipino American History

Monochrome photos mounted on black backing, showing various scenes from the Philipppines

Staff Favorites: Finding Culture, War, and Handmade Surprises with Cataloging Librarian Joy Orillo-Dotson