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Posted by: Laura Kells
The notes exchanged between baseball fans Harry A. Blackmun and Potter Stewart during the 1973 American League Championships and the 1975 World Series show how notes exchanged between justices of the Supreme Court provide insight into their informal relationships, allowing us to understand better the individuals who serve on the nation's highest court.
Posted in: Of Note, Sports, Supreme Court
Posted by: Laura Kells
Notes on an air sickness bag in the Bernard A. Schriever Papers illustrate the fact that, when people need to record their thoughts, all sorts of things can become writing paper.
Posted in: Of Note, Science and Technology
Posted by: Laura Kells
In a class project for a course on Imperial Russian history at Virginia Tech, students learned about the Manuscript Division's holdings of explorer and lecturer George Kennan's personal papers and examined newspaper accounts of his lectures using the Library's Chronicling America website.
Posted in: Digital Collections, International History, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Laura Kells
A look at the challenges processing archivists face and the types of decisions they make when organizing unsorted letters
Posted in: Behind the Scenes
Posted by: Laura Kells
This is the first in an occasional series in which we share items that have caught our eye. This unusual item from the papers of stage and film director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) is a memento from the first movie he ever directed, Applause (1929). Mamoulian saved the back of his director’s chair that had been …
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Laura Kells
Unlike the standard archival boxes that researchers see in the Manuscript Reading Room, the containers that hold manuscripts when they first arrive in the Manuscript Division’s Preparation Section can range from file cabinets and storage containers to liquor boxes and trash cans.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes