Manuscript Society Blog
January 23, 2021
Lincoln's Inaugural Photograph - May 4, 1861 Iconic photo of Lincoln’s first inauguration. Now believed to be taken by [...]
January 23, 2021
UFO Documents released After decades of Freedom of Information requests, approximately 2,780 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents detailing [...]
January 11, 2021
Robert Caro (center), James Hicks and Debra Schmidt Bach of NY Historical Society. Jonah Markowitz/New York Times Robert [...]
January 7, 2021
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade, launched at the end of 2020. Joining with seven smaller, searchable databases, Enslaved.org [...]
January 5, 2021
The Library of Congress recently completed a major digitization effort, making collections of 23 U.S. presidents' papers available online [...]
January 5, 2021
Manuscript Digest –January 2021 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, [...]
December 31, 2020
Lost: Lessons from the Carnegie Library Theft Michael J. Dabrishus “They are only sorry that we discovered what they did,” [...]
December 2, 2020
Manuscript Digest –December 2020 – This complimentary e-digest, launched in 2012, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, [...]
November 25, 2020
Charles Darwin Notebooks Missing Charles Darwin photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881 Cambridge, England 2000 - Charles Darwin's [...]
November 19, 2020
Mel Blanc: A Portrait in Manuscripts By Kevin Segall Figure 1. An inscribed, dated, and signed photograph of Mel [...]
