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Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 2 No. 3: May-June 2013 INSIDE PLUS Supporting Marching for Women's Suffrage Blind Musicians Celebrating Danny Kaye & Sylvia Fine Saving Rare Cloning a Rare Violin Sound Recordings LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2013 WWW.LOC.GOV In This Issue MAY/JUNE 2013 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE FEATURES Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 2 No. 3: May/June 2013 Mission of the Library of Congress Music for the Blind 8 The Library has provided special-format materials and services for The mission of the Library is to support the blind musicians for 50 years. Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. Saving Our Sounds 10 Preservation efforts at the Library's Packard Campus highlight a rich Library of Congress Magazine is issued and varied history of recorded sound. bimonthly by the Office of Communications of the Library of Congress and distributed free of charge to publicly supported libraries and research institutions, donors, academic libraries, A Cabinet of Gold learned societies and allied organizations in 14 Charles Dana Gibson's archetypal young woman is featured in a new 8 the United States. Research institutions and Library exhibition from the Golden Age of Illustration. Pianist Justin Kauflin educational organizations in other countries may arrange to receive Library of Congress Magazine on an exchange basis by applying in writing to the Library’s Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington DC 20540-4100. LCM is also available on the web at www.loc.gov/lcm/. DEPARTMENTS All other correspondence should be addressed to the Office of Communications, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., 02 21 Washington DC 20540-1610. Library in History First Drafts 20 Cover of Suffrage Parade Program e-mail [email protected] 03 22 Trending How Do I www.loc.gov/lcm/ 04 23 ISSN 2169-0855 (print) Online Offerings Favorite Places ISSN 2169-0863 (online) 04 For You at the Library 24 Around the Library James H. Billington 05 25 Librarian of Congress My Job at the Library News Briefs 06 26 Gayle Osterberg Technology Shop the Library Executive Editor 19 Experts Corner 27 Support the Library Audrey Fischer 20 28 Editor Page from the Past The Last Word John H. Sayers Managing Editor 24 Dena Kaye Ashley Jones ON THE COVER: Detail, “The Weaker Sex. II,” Charles Dana Gibson, 1903. Designer Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Photo Illustration | Ashley Jones Abby Brack Lewis Photo Editor Contributing Writers Erin Allen CONNECT ON Mural of Summer by Frank W. Benson under printer's mark of Sheryl Cannady Jennifer Gavin Twitter: Flickr: Simon Vostre in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. @librarycongress flickr.com/photo/library_of_congress Martha Kennedy Youtube: Library of Congress blogs: Carol Highsmith youtube.com/libraryofcongress blogs.loc.gov Judith Nierman Facebook: facebook.com/libraryofcongress LCM online: loc.gov/lcm Claire Rojstaczer Donna Urschel May/June 2013 | loc.gov/lcm 1 the library IN HISTORY #trending AT THE LIBRARY The Ralph Ellison LIBRARIANS ON PARADE JUNETEENTH Papers in the Library of Congress A CENTURY AGO, A DELEGATION OF LIBRARIANS, LED BY AN EMPLOYEE IN THE MORE THAN 40 STATES CELEBRATE THE DAY THAT TEXANS U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE, CHAMPIONED THE CAUSE OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. include the author’s LEARNED OF LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. unfinished drafts of “Juneteenth”— The news came late—two-and-a-half referred to as “the On March 3, 1913, Harriet J. Hifton of the U.S. years late—and in the form of an Hickman novel” Women suffragists Copyright Office in the Library of Congress led official pronouncement. Known as that Ellison’s literary march in formation a delegation of librarians in the Woman Suffrage “General Order No. 3,” the edict was executor John F. from the U.S. Capitol Procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation’s delivered by U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Callahan brought to down Pennsylvania capital. The librarians joined other professionals— Gordon Granger from the balcony publication in 1999. Avenue on March teachers, nurses, lawyers and business women—as well of a mansion in Galveston, Texas on 3, 1913. Prints and as distinguished Members of Congress, who marched Photographs Division June 19, 1865. that day in support of giving women the right to vote. (See page 20.) But to the African-American population of the Texas territory, A member of the District Woman’s Suffrage League, it might have come direct from Hifton had represented Washington, D.C., at the heaven out of the mouth of an National American Woman Suffrage Conference archangel: President Lincoln had issued in Louisville, Ky., in October 1911. The following the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing them from slavery. year, she was one of 100 women who represented This artist’s sketch Washington, D.C., at the women’s suffrage parade The widespread joy in Galveston and other Texas towns by Winsor McCay in Baltimore on June 27, 1912. As a member of nearby as the news spread—and commemorative celebrations for the March 4, the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in other places around the U.S., held over many years and 1913, issue of the (forerunner of the National Woman’s Party), she today in virtually all states—became known as “Juneteenth,” a New York Evening helped organize the May 9, 1914, suffrage parade day observed by African Americans and their fellow citizens Journal shows the in memory of that date of glad tidings (the name combines order of the Woman in Washington, D.C. Following passage of the Suffrage Procession, 19th Amendment that gave women the right to “June” and “nineteenth”). Today more than 40 states officially with blow-up showing vote, Hifton served as an officer on a local branch recognize Juneteenth as a state observance, and there is a the “Librarians” of the National Woman’s Party, working to end all movement to have it declared a national day of observance, delegation. discrimination against women voters. At the same similar to Flag Day and Mother’s Day. Newspapers and time, she served as a representative on the Library Current Periodicals Branch of Federal Employees’ Local No. 2. The Library of Congress holds Lincoln’s handwritten first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, and displayed it Hifton also supported the cause of equal suffrage for early this year in its “The Civil War in America” exhibition in residents of the District of Columbia and spoke at Washington, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the many public meetings on the subject. In 1915, she Civil War. married fellow suffragist Edward King. In September 1928, Mrs. Harriet Hifton King was listed among In addition to being the name of the time-honored celebration, the National Woman’s Party delegates who met with “Juneteenth” is also the title of African American writer Herbert Hoover to determine what role the party Ralph Ellison’s novel, published posthumously. The Library of would play in the presidential election of 1928. Congress holds the papers of Ralph Ellison—best-known for his classic novel “Invisible Man”—in its Manuscript Division —Audrey Fischer and Ellison’s library in its Rare Book and Special Collection Judith Nierman of the U.S. Copyright Division. Ralph Ellison seated in his apartment, 1972. The Ralph Ellison Office contributed to this article. —Jennifer Gavin Papers, Manuscript Division MORE INFORMATION MORE INFORMATION Essay: “Marching for the Vote” by Sheridan Harvey Finding Aid to Ralph Ellison Papers memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/aw01e/aw01e.html hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002008 Women’s History Month Website View webcasts of Library programs about Ralph Ellison womenshistorymonth.gov loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5537 read.gov/webcasts/rampersad.html 2 LCM | Library of Congress Magazine May/June 2013 | loc.gov/lcm 3 onlineOFFERINGS my job AT THE LIBRARY TWO KIDS BOB BLANKENBURG BOB BLANKENBURG IS A REGISTRATION FROM SPECIALIST IN THE PERFORMING ARTS DIVISION BROOKLYN OF THE U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE. How did you prepare for your current position? The versatile American actor and comedian I have worked as a professional musician for Danny Kaye delighted audiences in the 1940s, the past 46 years, performing nationally and ‘50s and ‘60s with his lively singing and internationally in orchestral, concert and big dancing—on stage, on television and in films bands, playing various musical instruments such as “White Christmas” and “Hans Christian and styles. Andersen.” His wife, Sylvia Fine, played a major role in his success, writing the music I received a bachelor’s degree in music from the and lyrics for his songs and artfully managing University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a double and producing his engagements. The Library major in applied trombone performance and launched this spring a website featuring 2,000 music history/theory. Concurrently, I studied items from the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine guitar with Roy Plumb, who was a student Abby Brack Lewis Collection, which is housed in the Library’s of renowned jazz guitarist, George Van Eps. Music Division. I taught guitar in Madison before moving to the Washington, D.C., area in 1973. I began Online visitors can view music and lyric The remaining 10 to 15 percent are predominantly my career at the Library as a performing arts manuscripts; printed sheet music; scripts from screenplays, stage plays and choreographic works. examiner in the Copyright Office in 2002. stage, radio, television and films; photographs; My current position as a registration specialist The Library has selected Carole King to receive its theater programs; correspondence—business Danny Kaye and wife Sylvia Fine arrive in London for the Royal Command Gershwin Prize for Popular Song this year.
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