Library of Congress Exhibit

April is the month that we celebrate National Library Week . This year it is April 14 -20. I'm helping to celebrate this event with an e...

Patrick Magruder and the Burning of the Library of Congress

 Patrick Magruder (1768-1819) was the second Librarian of Congress and served in that capacity from 1807-1815. He served both as the Clerk o...

Vintage Library Bookplates

This post features three vintage library bookplates (shown above) in my collection. All three were formerly in books that were probably disc...

Solberg, Woods, and the Library of Congress

Thorvald Solberg (1852-1949) was the nation's first Register of Copyrights in the Library of Congress. He served in that capacity from ...

Libraries With the Most Librariana

If you follow this blog, you know that I am a collector of librariana . Although my primary emphasis is on the collection of postal libraria...

30th Anniversary of America's First Stamp Commemorating a Library

Thirty years ago during National Library Week in April, 1982, the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp commemorating the Libr...

Poet Laureates on Postage Stamps

Poets to be honored on postage stamps on April 21 On April 21 the United States Postal Service will issue a set of 12 stamps depicting twent...

Library of Congress Ornament

For those who put up and decorate Christmas trees, there are tens of thousands of ornaments to choose from. Libraries on occasion arrange fo...

Library of Congress Souvenir Spoon

If you're looking for a last minute Christmas present, I came across one for you to consider on eBay. It is a souvenir spoon for the Lib...

Library of Congress Stereoview

Stereoviews are double images of a scene on a card that when viewed with a stereoscope appear to be three dimensional or in 3D. Several deca...

Bradbury Thompson, Library Stamp Designer

Three of my favorite library related postage stamps were designed by the same person, Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995) . This year is the 100th...

America's Library - The Library of Congress

I've mentioned my philatelic exhibit about the Library of Congress which I titled "America's Library - The Library of Congress...

My Thomas S. Shaw Collection of Covers and Correspondence

A few years ago I acquired a collection of several dozen covers (envelopes) and letters mailed to Thomas S. Shaw, a longtime Library of Cong...

LOC Philatelic Exhibit Receives Awards

I don't like to toot my own horn too often, but I was pretty pleased with myself when my philatelic exhibit at the St. Louis Stamp Expo ...

3 Exhibits About the Library of Congress

In an earlier post about my library history promotion activities last year, I noted that I had developed a philatelic exhibit about the Lib...

That All May Read, NLS turns 80

The National Library Service for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped (NLS) celebrates its 80th anniversary on March 3rd. The motto fo...

Tormentor of Massachusetts

George H. Moore (1823-1892), the first paid librarian of the New York Historical Society (1849-1876) and later librarian of the Lenox Librar...

A Tale of Two LC Envelopes During WWII

I've had the first envelope shown above in my collection for a number of years. It is an "Official Business" penalty cover for...

Library of Congress Mail Exhibit

A good chunk of my time for the last several weeks has been putting together a 10 frame (160 page) philatelic exhibit on the Library of Cong...

Special Information at LC in WW2

The Division for Special Information was established in the Library of Congress in the summer of 1941 for the purpose of analyzing informati...