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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
Archivists describe the initial steps taken to adding another million items to the largest collection held by the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, the records of the NAACP.
Posted in: African American History, Behind the Scenes, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
Manuscript collections often include scrapbooks, which tell unique stories but can be challenging to preserve. With Edwin Swillinger’s scrapbook, archivist Katherine Madison chose to disassemble it in order to provide the best care for the many photographs and other documents depicting Swillinger’s military service and life in post-World War II Japan.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, International History, War and Society
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Archivist Elizabeth Livesey explores the history of one of the oldest Jewish women’s grassroots organizations in the United States, as well as that of her own family, in two collections related to the National Council of Jewish Women.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
A new manuscript collection, the May Benzenberg Mayer Papers, seemed to offer more questions than answers. An archivist and a historian teamed up to tackle its mysteries.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Science and Technology
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Archivists describe the initial steps taken to add another million items to the largest collection held by the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Records.
Posted in: African American History, Behind the Scenes
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: Elizabeth Novara
When the National Woman's Party dissolved in December 2020, the organization donated all of its remaining records to the Library of Congress. Among these unique materials is a large and important collection of scrapbooks.
Posted in: Behind the Scenes, Women's & Gender History
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