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Posted by: Josh Levy
In honor of Georgia O'Keeffe's November 15 birthday, transcriptions are now available in the Manuscript Division's online Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz collection, allowing researchers to delve into the digitized documents in new ways.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
How did James A. Garfield's wife respond when he channeled his inner "mean girl" after observing Abraham and Mary Lincoln for the first time?
Posted in: Digital Collections, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Josh Levy
The Manuscript Division holds born-digital collection materials in hundreds of file formats. Remember HyperCard? WordStar? MacDraw Pro? WordPerfect? No? Find out how these obsolete file formats are being made accessible in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Science and Technology
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Discover some of the most haunting items in the Manuscript Division's collections.
Posted in: Diaries, Digital Collections, Holidays, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
A newly launched exploratory Story Map reveals the histories and geography of America’s bloodiest battle in a fascinating new way.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, War and Society
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Learn about Alice Stone Blackwell’s penchant for poetry and volunteer to review transcribed materials in the NAWSA Records and the Blackwell Family Papers.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Since 2018, By the People virtual volunteers have completed transcriptions of more than 143,000 pages of documents from the Manuscript Division’s women’s suffrage collections, enhancing search and accessibility. Public help is still needed to finalize thousands of transcriptions awaiting review.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Women's & Gender History
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: Elizabeth Novara
A new crowdsourcing transcription campaign features the Manuscript Division’s Hannah Arendt Papers.
Posted in: Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts, War and Society, Women's & Gender History