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1.3KLoC GlobalExplore, Transcribe and Tag at Crowd.loc.gov!
This is a guest post by Lauren Algee, senior innovation specialist with the Library’s Digital Innovation Lab. What yet-unwritten stories lie within...
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1.4KLoC GlobalThirty Years of the National Film Registry
The National Film Preservation Board meets at the Library this morning. Photo by Shawn Miller. Something exciting is happening today. Of course,...
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1.5KLoC GlobalFree to Use and Reuse – and Animate! A Parade of Posters
A French poster from the early 1900s advertises noodles and pasta using images of celebrities, some holding packages of the product. This...
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1.3KLoC GlobalNew Online: Recordings from the Archive of Hispanic Literature
This is a guest post by Cataline Gómez, a reference librarian in the Hispanic Division. It was first published on “4 Corners...
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1.3KLoC GlobalNew Online: Diarist Documents Eventful Times on the Confederate Home Front
This is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Manuscript Division. The first page of Betty Herndon Maury’s diary....
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1.6KLoC GlobalNew Online: Theodore Roosevelt Papers
Theodore Roosevelt, 1884. This is a guest post by Michelle Krowl, a historian in the Manuscript Division. On Feb. 14, 1884, Theodore...
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1.3KLoC GlobalMy Job at the Library: Engaging Spanish Speakers with the Collections
Benny Seda-Galarza joined the Library’s Communications Office a little more than a year ago as a public affairs specialist. Fluent in English...
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1.5KLoC GlobalHispanic Heritage Month: Early Titles by the Americas’ First Printing Press
This is a guest post by John Hessler, curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the History and Archaeology of the...
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1.6KLoC GlobalHispanic Heritage Month: Mexican-Americans and Baseball
This is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscript Division. The post celebrates both National Hispanic Heritage Month...
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1.5KLoC GlobalThe Mystery of James Madison’s Crystal Flute
It is well known that Dolley Madison rescued a now-iconic portrait of George Washington as she fled the White House on August...
