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Made at the Library: The Declaration in Script and Print

Posted by: Julie Miller

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

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

A black and white etching of an enclosed stage coach.

Margaret Hunter Hall: Reluctant Traveler to the Antebellum United States

Posted by: Julie Miller

Monochrome sketch of soldiers walking along jungle path

A Historian at War: The Unpublished Guadalcanal Diaries of Herbert Christian Laing Merillat

Posted by: Josh Levy

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.

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

Scrap of paper with handwriting in pen and pencil

More Walt Whitman Manuscripts Ready for Crowdsourced Transcription

Posted by: Josh Levy

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

Posted by: Julie Miller

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

Of Note: Family, Fashion, and Filipino American History

Posted by: Julie Miller

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

Posted by: Josh Levy