Halloween Highlights
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Discover some of the most haunting items in the Manuscript Division’s collections.
Posted in: Holidays
Archive: 2023 (60 Posts)
National Woman’s Party Research Fellowship: New Fellow Announced and 2024 Application Period Opens
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The Manuscript Division welcomes its second National Woman’s Party research fellow this fall and announces the opening of the application period for the third year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.
Posted in: Researcher Resources, Women's & Gender History
Of Note: Charles Wellington Reed’s Civil War “Emoji”
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed proves that today’s emojis had Civil War ancestors.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Letters, Of Note, War and Society
“The Eye That Never Sleeps”: Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
While the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records might not contain your grandfather’s Pinkerton’s employment history, the collection offers information about the Pinkertons who ran the family’s agency and some of the more interesting criminals they investigated.
A Stitch in Time: Sewing a 1920s Dress Inspired by Hazel MacKaye
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
The author connects with the past by sewing a dress inspired by one worn by pageant director Hazel MacKaye, as seen in a photograph from the National Woman’s Party Records.
Posted in: Politics, Women's & Gender History
Intern Spotlight: Five Questions for Manuscript Division Intern Lindsay Musil
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, Intern Spotlight
Say Yes to (Born-Digital) Access! New Online Resource Guide: Accessing Born-Digital Manuscript Material
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
“Nothing that you do…can fail to interest me”: Elizabeth Blackwell and Florence Nightingale Exchange Ideas on Women in Medicine
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
Of Note: Reducing the Spread
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