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At the Library of Congress, the exhibition 'Not an Ostrich: And Other Images From America's Library' spotlights its photo holdings.
You can never have too many cat photos, right? Well, the Library of Congress certainly thinks so. Behold: the Library of Congress shared royalty-free cat images in a conveniently curated collection.
I never knew what I was going to look at that day,” said Tucker, 72, who retired from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2015 and then spent a year and a half visiting the Library of Congress in ...
About a year after acquiring a newly discovered photo of a young Harriet Tubman, the Library of Congress has revealed more information about the photo and the album that contained it. In a March ...
An old photo album containing a rare portrait of the legendary underground railroad conductor Harriet Tubman has been jointly acquired by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National ...
A photograph of a young Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist hero of the Underground Railroad, has been acquired by the Library of Congress and the recently opened National Museum of African American ...
A pilot project aims to share Library of Congress photos on Flickr and enlist the collective wisdom of Web site visitors to endow them with descriptive tags. Stephen Shankland Former Principal ...
Here are photos of the Library of Congress from a recent trip to Washington, D.C. Read a full story for tips on making the most of a trip to the nation's capital.
History buffs of Central New York, the Library of Congress needs you! Especially Cary O'Dell, who works for the Library's National Recording Preservation Board. Do you recognize the woman in the ...
C-SPAN's original feature documentary, [The Library of Congress], is a behind-the-scenes look at the national repository, providing the history of the institution, a tour of its iconic Jefferson ...
The story of the photo is discussed in Taylor’s very first visit to the Lange collection at the Library of Congress, which was filmed for Picturing America (July 2011), a program of the National ...
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, and the national library of the United States. Its three buildings hold some 100 million items—including the papers of 23 US presidents ...