Category: Publishing Office

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Publishing at the Library, with Aimee Hess

November 15, 2024

In this edition of "My Job" at the Library, Aimee Hess talks about her work in editing and producing books that highlight the Library’s collections. She oversees the Library's Crime Classics series, has written two books in the "Women Who Dare" series and cowritten two books: one on the suffrage exhibition, “Shall Not Be Denied"; and one about the Library's photograph collections, “The Joy of Looking."

Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, American Folklife Center, Crime Classics Series, LCM, Library of Congress Crime Classics, Library Work and Employees, Publishing Office, Womens History

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Richard Morris Hunt: Architect of the Gilded Age

September 24, 2024

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Richard Morris Hunt was perhaps the most influential American architect of the late 19th century. He went to Paris to study, then returned to spread the Beaux-Arts gospel and give America architecture that matched its ambitions. He designed castles that defined the Gilded Age, such as Breakers and Marble House in Rhode Island, and the Biltmore in North Carolina. The Library preserves his papers and has just published "The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt" in association with Giles Ltd.

Posted in: Architecture, LCM, Library Work and Employees, Prints and Photographs Division, Publishing Office, Researcher Stories