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Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Lindsay Musil discusses her work in the Manuscript Reading Room as the 2023 Elizabeth Brown Pryor intern and her participation in the Library of Congress Junior Fellows program.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes
Posted by: Josh Levy
Explore the Manuscript Division’s new online resource guide, “Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material”, and discover how to leverage born-digital manuscripts in your next research project.
Posted in: Digital Collections
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Letters exchanged between two great women of medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale, demonstrate differing perspectives on women’s roles in the medical profession in the nineteenth century.
Posted in: International History, Letters, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot visited Iran in 1949 and returned to the U.S. with a striking public health poster warning against the spread of the infectious eye disease, trachoma.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
Anna Freud knew the importance of her father's book and article drafts to history, but she couldn't bring herself to part with them. The manuscripts remained in her home for decades, until a visit by a Library of Congress staff member in 1975 helped persuade her to begin to let go.
Posted in: International History, Science and Technology
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Women’s activism in both the temperance and the women’s suffrage movements can be found in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Lewis Wyman
Join the Manuscript Division for a discussion of 1920s America with Nathan Masters at noon, August 23, as he discusses his new book: Crooked: The Roaring Twenties Tales of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal.
Posted by: Josh Levy
A valuable new resource guide for a rich collection of materials from British archives related to the history of the United States is now available online.
Posted in: International History, Library of Congress History, Researcher Resources
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
In 1933, psychoanalyst Frieda Fromm-Reichmann fled Nazi Germany. Before landing in the United States, she passed through France. An item from the Manuscript Division’s collections tells this story.
Posted in: International History, Of Note, Science and Technology, War and Society