Thursday
March 23, 2023
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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Great Hall
The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
5:00 pm -
7:00 pm
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Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room
This event will feature landmark purchases and donations to the Rare Book & Special Collections Division over the past 25 years. Items will range from medieval manuscripts to twenty-first century artist’s books. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet the curatorial and reference staff and learn about onsite and digital resources from Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
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LJ 119
Kevin Butterfield will discuss his book, "The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States." This event will support the new Library of Congress "Join In: Voluntary Associations in America" exhibition.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)
This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display features documents nearly 80 years of research, pageants, demonstrations, strikes, picketing, and petitioning to promote women’s suffrage. These items were donated to the Library of Congress in 2020 by the library of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Most of the material originated in the library of Florence Bayard Hilles, one of the founders of the NWP, whose collection was regarded...
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Northwest Gallery
A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States.
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Thursday
March 23, 2023
10:00 am -
8:00 pm
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)
This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display features documents nearly 80 years of research, pageants, demonstrations, strikes, picketing, and petitioning to promote women’s suffrage. These items were donated to the Library of Congress in 2020 by the library of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Most of the material originated in the library of Florence Bayard Hilles, one of the founders of the NWP, whose collection was regarded...
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Northwest Gallery
A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States.
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
Add to calendar
Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Friday
March 24, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)
This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)
This small, curated display features documents nearly 80 years of research, pageants, demonstrations, strikes, picketing, and petitioning to promote women’s suffrage. These items were donated to the Library of Congress in 2020 by the library of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Most of the material originated in the library of Florence Bayard Hilles, one of the founders of the NWP, whose collection was regarded...
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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George and Ira Gershwin Room
Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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South Gallery
This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Northwest Gallery
A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States.
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Gallery
A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
Saturday
March 25, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Southwest Pavilion
Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.
Tuesday
March 28, 2023
10:00 am -
5:00 pm
EDT
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Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)
This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
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