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925LoC GlobalFree to Use and Reuse: Movie Magic
The Grand Riviera’s opening week, 1925. Historic American Buildings Survey. Photo: Jack Boucher. Prints and Photographs Division. The Grand Riviera Theatre opened...
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803LoC GlobalGarth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood: On Stage at the Library March 2
Garth Brooks, the 2020 recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Garth Brooks has friends in library places – sorry, couldn’t...
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700LoC GlobalFor Presidents Day…Why Not Read Lincoln’s Mail?
Our very own Michelle Krowl and special guest. Photo: Shawn Miller. When President Abraham Lincoln (in the form of George Buss of...
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864LoC GlobalLove Letters Straight to Your Heart
“Devoted lover,” Ulysses S. Grant. ca. 1860. Photo: Bain News Service. Prints and Photographs Division. History knows Ulysses S. Grant as the...
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1.3KLoC GlobalLove in the Comics: The Star-Crossed Story of “Negro Romance”
Panel from “Negro Romance” #2. Art: Alvin Hollingsworth. Serial and Government Publications Division. Hayley Salvatore, an intern in the Office of Communications,...
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839LoC Global“Caged Bird” Inspired by the Library of Congress
Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet Maya Angelou’s debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” is her most famous work. The coming-of-age...
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771LoC Global“Ro-sa Parks! Ro-sa Parks!” Kicking off Black History Month
We’re kicking off Black History Month with — wh0 else — Rosa Parks, whose papers are currently the subject of a major...
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802LoC GlobalLibrary Makes an Unsplash
Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, N.J. Dry-plate negative by the Detroit Publishing Co., publisher, [between 1900 and 1920]. Prints...
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913LoC GlobalAmerican Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft of the Library’s Manuscript Division. Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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839LoC GlobalLetters Give an Intimate Look at Classic Hollywood Era
A letter to silent film star Clara Bow from fellow star and one-time beau Gilbert Roland appears in “Letters from Hollywood.” Photo:...
