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1.3KLoC GlobalBug Story: The Secret of Pre-Modern Colors
Preservation Science Specialist Cynthia Ryan working with cochineal dyes in the Library’s Preservation and Research Testing Division lab. Photo: Shawn Miller. Cindy...
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1.0KLoC GlobalPic of the Week: Gayle Osterberg Edition
Gayle Osterberg and Carla Hayden, May 8, 2019. Photo: Shawn Miller. Into each life, some rain must fall. And so it is,...
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1.2KLoC GlobalPerry in Edo Bay: The Dawn of the U.S.-Japanese Relationship
Perry’s ships arrive Edo Bay, as seen in “Kinkai kikan.” Photo by Shawn Miller. The Black Ship scrolls are a genre of...
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1.3KLoC GlobalFresh Life (Online) for the epic Shahnamah
Detail, illustration in the Shahnamah. Printed in India, circa 1600. “The Shahnamah,” (translated as “The Persian Book of Kings”) is the majestic...
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1.2KLoC GlobalAnnals of True Crime: The Kidnapping of Charley Ross
Today we bring you a harrowing true-crime story from Heather Thomas, a reference librarian in the Serial and Government Publications Division. She...
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1.4KLoC Global‘O Captain! My Captain!’ Walt Whitman, Two Centuries Later
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865. Photo: Moses P. Rice and Sons. Feinberg-Whitman collection. Walt Whitman, that most exuberant of poets, the...
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1.3KLoC GlobalPic of the Week: Big Bad Wolf Edition
Page from “Red Riding Hood,” Lydia L.A. Very, 1863. Cover, right. Photos by Shawn Miller. Frankly, we’ve always wondered about how quick...
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1.1KLoC GlobalInquiring Minds: Watching New York City Grow, Block by Block
Myles Zhang’s portfolio includes beautiful watercolors of New York City neighborhoods; drawings of buildings in Newark, New Jersey — his hometown; and...
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1.2KLoC GlobalNew for research! LibGuides
Today, we want to give a heads-up to our researchers to make sure they know that the Library is part of LibGuides,...
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1.1KLoC GlobalHoward University, Library, Team Up for New Internship Program
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks at the AHHA ceremony April 22, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller. One of the Library’s newest...
