Madison Council initiatives (clockwise from top left): A cartographer in Ludovico de Varthema's Itinerary of Ludovico de Varthema..., from the exhibition "1492: An Ongoing Voyage," which traveled to otehr U.S. venues; scene from "The Road to Morocco" (1942), a selection from the National Film Registry. Some of the films in the registry have been shown in theaters across the country; portrait of George Washington by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Memin (1800), from the collection of Marian S. Carson. Part of the collection was donated by Mrs. Carson, a Madisonian, and part was purchased by the council; the first group of Library of Congress Junior Fellows (1991) gather around their benefactor, Mrs. Jefferson Patterson; Ralph Ellison, whose collection was acquired in 1996 with Madison funds.
