LoC Global
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1.2KPic(s) of the Week: Ice Cream!
Ice cream vendor, Havana, Cuba, c. 1890-1910. Detroit Publishing Company collection, Prints and Photographs Division. This image of a long-ago Caribbean ice-cream...
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Remembering Jazz Legend Billy Strayhorn
Billy Strayhorn, scoring music (or pretending to), c 1946 Photo: William Gottlieb. William P. Gottlieb Collection, Music Division. The following is a...
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1.2KGarfield Shooting: July 2, 1881, and the Medical Disaster That Ensued
Charles Guiteau. Photo: C.M. Bell, 1881. Prints and Photograph Division. This story is adapted from an upcoming story in the Library of...
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1.0KStonewall at 50: How it Played out in Newspapers
This is a guest post from Amber Paranick, who does great work over at the Headlines & Heroes Blog, which chronicles the...
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1.0KPic of the Week: Purple Bison Edition
A mesmerizing quilt by Cheryl Rounds was included in the “Inspired by Endangered Species: Animals and Plants in Fabric Perspectives,” exhibition in...
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1.1KNew Mystery Photo Contest
Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He’s back with another round,...
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1.1KThe Will of Claudia Izard: An Uneasy Antebellum Testament
This is a guest post by Julie Miller, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It offers a window into the social realities...
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1.8K25 Years of LOC.gov
What does the Library of Congress website have in common with Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, Amazon.com, the TV show “Friends” and Netscape’s...
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1.1KMy Job: Introducing the Library’s Einstein Distinguished Educator
Kellie Taylor. Photo by Ars Nova. Kellie Taylor is the Library’s first-ever Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator. The fellowship program appoints accomplished K–12...
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1.1KHooray for Joy! The Library Has a New Poet Laureate
This post was first published on “From the Catbird Seat,” the blog of the Library’s Poetry and Literature Center. Rob Casper, head...
