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Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
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The official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition, Collecting Memories uses vivid photographs and interpretive text to bring context to a wide variety of historic objects, from President Abraham Lincoln's handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address to Steve Ditko's original drawings of the Spider-Man origin story. Other highlights include:
* Maya Lin's original competition drawings for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* The first Italian cookbook, Libro de arte coquinaria, published in the late 1400s
* An incredibly rare crystal flute given to President James Madison by French flute maker Claude Laurent
* Illustrations from a thirty-nine-foot nineteenth-century Japanese scroll
* Scenes from the fifteenth-century Washington Haggadah
* Images of a colorful six-by-nine-foot canvas family tree documenting a Black family genealogy dating back to the eighteenth century
* A hand-painted scroll, or thangka, given to the Library by the fourteenth Dalai Lama
* A small pocket notebook carried by Sigmund Freud
The official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition, Collecting Memories uses vivid photographs and interpretive text to bring context to a wide variety of historic objects, from President Abraham Lincoln's handwritten draft of the Gettysburg Address to Steve Ditko's original drawings of the Spider-Man origin story. Other highlights include:
* Maya Lin's original competition drawings for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* The first Italian cookbook, Libro de arte coquinaria, published in the late 1400s
* An incredibly rare crystal flute given to President James Madison by French flute maker Claude Laurent
* Illustrations from a thirty-nine-foot nineteenth-century Japanese scroll
* Scenes from the fifteenth-century Washington Haggadah
* Images of a colorful six-by-nine-foot canvas family tree documenting a Black family genealogy dating back to the eighteenth century
* A hand-painted scroll, or thangka, given to the Library by the fourteenth Dalai Lama
* A small pocket notebook carried by Sigmund Freud
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