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563Introducing Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division archivists make sense of materials that often come to them folded, bundled, stacked, or mangled. Pictured is a suitcase holding...
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559The “Day Dream” of Billy Strayhorn’s Music
Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. Photo: Unknown. Music Division. It was just a few years into the 20th century. Times were impossibly...
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559Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century
Hazel Scott in an undated publicity photo from early in her career. Music Division. Hazel Scott was the gorgeous face of jazz...
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572La Biblioteca Podcast: Season 2!
“We the People Defend Dignity,” 2017. Artist: Shepard Fairey. Prints and Photographs Division. Courtesy of Shepard Fairey, Obey Giant Art. This is...
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610By the People: Transcribe Early Copyright Applications
Title page copyright application for “The Female Spy,” a romance novel of 1846. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The Library’s newest...
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595Thomas Jefferson’s Quran at the World Expo in Dubai
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...
