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Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
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.
Posted in: Exhibits, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History
Posted by: Laura Kells
A look at an eye-catching vacation photo from the summer of 1887 contained in the F. Holland Day Papers.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
Posted by: Josh Levy
Walt Whitman’s birthday month of May marks the addition of a new Manuscript Division collection in the By the People Walt Whitman Campaign.
Posted in: Civil War, Digital Collections, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The recently acquired personal papers of award-winning poet and teacher Ai Ogawa (1947-2010) are newly processed and open to researchers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Asian American History, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Laura Kells
Attendance sheets signed by actors trained at the Actor Studio in 1955 were originally a routine record of who was there each day, but are now a useful resource for research into the history and influence of the Actors Studio as well as entertaining artifacts for fans of movies, television, and theater.
Posted in: Literature Culture & the Arts, Of Note
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: 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: 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
Posted by: Ryan Reft
A new exhibit at the Library of Congress looks at Frederick Law Olmsted’s experience as a social observer and public planner.
Posted in: Exhibits, Literature Culture & the Arts