Collecting Memories

Collecting MemoriesMemory formation, memorialization, collective history, and knowledge of the known world are guided by individuals and their cultures. Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress explores the ways people have preserved their history, culture, and personal recollections in a variety of artifacts, including letters, diaries, photographs, maps, books, quilts, rugs, murals, scrolls, and monuments. The official companion to the Library of

she believed in herself

Map of Drake's Atlantic Expedition in 1585 by Giovanni Battista Boazio

A reference poster is included so you can seek

demonstrating that this giant of the nineteenth century can still exert a powerful attraction for the inhabitants of the twenty-first

Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941

5-12/Sock: 10-13

Since photography’s invention in the early nineteenth century

" And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room—to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs

In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle

(1917–2007)

to everything one by one—the little bunny says goodnight

This book traces the spiritual aspect of Mandela's life