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2.6KInquiring Minds: Researching Justice at the Library of Congress
Greg Guggenmos, front right, examines papers related to Justice Hugo Black with a fellow student from Joe Kobylka’s Southern Methodist University honors...
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2.0KNational Book Festival: 2017 Poster Depicts Delightful World of Books
(The following is a repost from the National Book Festival blog. The author is Lola Pyne of the Library’s Office of Communications.)...
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2.5KNew Book: Card Catalog’s History
Jacket design by Brooke Johnson A new book exploring the history of the card catalog—that venerated chest of small drawers that contained...
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2.0KGallery Talk: The Libertine Life of Abel Buell
This is a guest post by Kimberli Curry, exhibition director in the Interpretive Programs Office. Library of Congress specialists often give presentations...
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2.0KPic of the Week: Echoes of the Great War
A member of the U.S. Army Band tours ”Echoes of the Great War.” Photo by Shawn Miller. The Library of Congress opened...
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2.0KInquiring Minds: Delving into the Library’s Jazz Collections
Larry Appelbaum, left, with Ingrid Monson in the Whittall Pavilion on March 1. Photo by Michael Turpin. Ingrid Monson is the Quincy...
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2.0KWorld War I: Library Opens Major New Exhibit, ‘Echoes of the Great War’
The following is a guest post by Mark Hartsell, editor of the Library of Congress Gazette. As a surgeon with the U.S....
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2.0KWorld War I: A New World Order – Woodrow Wilson’s First Draft of the League of Nations Covenant
(The following was written by Sahr Conway-Lanz, historian in the Library’s Manuscript Division.) Woodrow Wilson. Between 1900 and 1920. Prints and Photographs...
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2.0KChampions of America: Early Baseball Card
This 1865 portrait of the Brooklyn Atlantics is considered an early prototype for baseball cards. Baseball “has the snap, go, fling, of...
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2.1KHappy Spring!
“Spring” by Penrhyn Stanlaws Temperatures are still a little cool here on the East Coast, but it’s definitely time to put those...
