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Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from Todd S. Purdum, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Politico, and the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution, published in April by Henry Holt and Company. For a lover of musical theater and the Great American Songbook, entering the …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Special Collections, Theater
Posted by: Cait Miller
The following is a guest post from retired Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. The Library of Congress recently made the James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers available online. It’s a fascinating treasure-trove of documents, including a wonderful series of letters between Buchanan and his niece and ward Harriet Lane (later Johnston), who served as the …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Sheet Music
Posted by: Cait Miller
The Music Division of the Library of Congress is home to over 500 named special collections – that is, the personal papers of significant figures and companies ranging from composers, to musicians, to costume designers, to choreographers, to publishers and beyond. You can see an alphabetical listing of our special collections online that includes links …
Posted in: Dance, Special Collections, Theater