Sometime in the mid-1930s, an aeronautical engineer sent out a particularly un-Christmassy looking Christmas card, one that featured a sleek aircraft soaring above a speeding train and automobile, with an art deco cityscape in the background.
A reference librarian reexamines a favorite letter in the George Washington Papers and gathers more information about the writer, territorial judge George Turner, who caused the first U.S. president years of aggravation and distress during a period when the government was struggling to assert federal authority in the Northwest Territory.
The Society of Woman Geographers Records, housed in the Manuscript Division, contain information on the now century-old organization, including the lives of the founders and early members who established a thriving community of independent women.
The Manuscript Division welcomed its fourth National Woman’s Party Research fellow this summer and announces the opening of the application period for the fifth year of the National Woman’s Party Fellowship.