Wallets and their contents are sometimes contained in collections of personal papers, and can provide clues about their owners, based on what they carried with them and the times in which they lived.
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, a Library of Congress “Native American Arts” display highlights select Indigenous artists documented in Indian Arts and Crafts Board materials in the Manuscript Division’s Vincent Price Papers.
With the opening of the Leonard Downie Jr. Papers in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, researchers will have an inside view into the internal dynamics at one of nation’s most august newspapers, The Washington Post.
A new exhibit in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building featuring two dozen collections from the Manuscript Division, several of which were recently acquired, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Watergate, the definitive American political scandal of the twentieth century.