Manuscript Division archivists make sense of materials that often come to them folded, bundled, stacked, or mangled. Pictured is a suitcase holding...
Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. Photo: Unknown. Music Division. It was just a few years into the 20th century. Times were impossibly...
Hazel Scott in an undated publicity photo from early in her career. Music Division. Hazel Scott was the gorgeous face of jazz...
“We the People Defend Dignity,” 2017. Artist: Shepard Fairey. Prints and Photographs Division. Courtesy of Shepard Fairey, Obey Giant Art. This is...
Title page copyright application for “The Female Spy,” a romance novel of 1846. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The Library’s newest...
Yasmeen Khan (center), head of the Library’s Paper Conservation Section, helps install Jefferson’s copy of the Koran in the U.S. exhibit in...