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Library of Congress Magazine March/April 2021 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2021 PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS Inside Romance and Tragedy In Roosevelt’s Diaries Love in the Comics: A Star-Crossed Story Plus Presidential Surprises The First Graphic Novel China’s Colossal Encyclopedia FEATURES ▪ This image of the White House, signed by President 6 12 18 Herbert Hoover, is contained within an autograph album Love in the Comics Presidential Papers Romance and Tragedy that belonged to Theodore Rare issues tell the star- The Library completes a In his diaries, Theodore Roosevelt’s family. The album is crossed story of the project to place the papers Roosevelt recorded the part of the Roosevelt papers at ‘Negro Romance’ series. of 23 presidents online. story of his first love. the Library. Manuscript Division LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE ▪ On the cover: The collections of presidential papers at the Library include Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence (left) and George Washington’s handwritten copy of his first inaugural address (right). Manuscript Division LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE DEPARTMENTS MARCH / APRIL 2021 VOL. 10 NO. 2 Mission of the 2 Online Offerings Library of Congress The Library’s mission is to engage, 4 Extremes inspire and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of 5 Off the Shelf knowledge and creativity. 8 Page from the Past Library of Congress Magazine is issued bimonthly by the Office of 2 Communications of the Library 10 Curator’s Picks of Congress and distributed free of charge to publicly 22 Technology supported libraries and research institutions, donors, academic libraries, learned societies and 23 Favorite Place allied organizations in the United States. Research institutions and educational organizations in other 24 My Job countries may arrange to receive Library of Congress Magazine on an exchange basis by applying in 25 News Briefs writing to the Library’s Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, 101 Independence Ave. 26 Shop the Library S.E., Washington DC 20540- 4100. LCM is also available on 5 the web at loc.gov/lcm/. All 27 Support the Library other correspondence should be addressed to the Office of Communications, Library of 28 Last Word Congress, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington DC 20540-1610. [email protected] loc.gov/lcm ISSN 2169-0855 (print) ISSN 2169-0863 (online) Carla Hayden Librarian of Congress April Slayton Executive Editor Mark Hartsell 10 Editor Ashley Jones Designer Shawn Miller Photo Editor Contributors Mark Dimunation Sahar Kazmi Michelle Krowl Wendi A. Maloney Meg McAleer Julie Miller CONNECT ON Qi Qui loc.gov/connect Neely Tucker 28 Ted Widmer MARCH/APRIL 2021 LOC.GOV/LCM 1 ONLINE OFFERINGS A NEW VIEW OF ANCIENT HISTORY ▪ The Kislak collection includes such rare Library launches a new and important pieces presentation of its Kislak as (from left) this 18th-century Spanish collection of the early rendering of relief carvings discovered Americas. in ancient Mayan The Library’s Jay I. Kislak Collection provides ruins; a 16th-century a window into the complex, fascinating map illustrating the with 60 hieroglyphs and a relief panel from West Indian voyage past of the Americas: the drama of first the ruined Maya city of La Corona depicting of Sir Francis Drake; encounters between indigenous peoples a ballplayer. and a Mayan low vase and European explorers, the pivotal changes depicting animal way caused by the meeting of the American and In 2004, Kislak donated over 3,000 pieces dancers and animal European worlds. from the collection to the Library, some deities. Geography and of which are showcased in a permanent Map Division, Rare Book Kislak, a businessman and philanthropist, exhibition in the Jefferson Building. and Special Collections spent decades building one of the Division premier private collections of material — In January, the Library launched a new archaeological artifacts, manuscripts, rare online presentation of nearly 350 items books, maps and artworks — documenting that offers more comprehensive access, the cultures and earliest history of via complete versions of digitized books Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and Florida. and maps. The presentation also provides extensive, high-resolution images of 3D The Kislak collection contains important, objects, allowing viewers to see, say, all original manuscripts written by both angles of a vase decorated with insect historic figures — King Philip II of Spain, monsters or a close-up of a ceramic conquistadors Hernán Cortés and Francisco medicinal flask in the form of a twisted face. Pizarro, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — and ordinary folks such as a Accompanying the collection are articles humble, 16th-century priest who traveled and essays highlighting collection the Guatemalan highlands, translating research performed at the Library, from prayers and Bible passages into indigenous hyperspectral imaging of Diego Rivera languages. paintings to decoration on Maya miniature masks — ancient history, seen in new ways. The collection, which spans 2000 BCE to the 21st century, also includes hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts of indigenous MORE INFORMATION cultures from Mexico and the Caribbean to The Jay I. Kislak Collection South America, such as a codex-style vase go.usa.gov/xAPEq 2 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE MARCH/APRIL 2021 LOC.GOV/LCM 3 EXTREMES knowledge known to Chinese civilization. The resulting Yongle Encyclopedia, named after the emperor’s reign, comprised 22,937 hand-copied sections bound into 11,095 volumes. Covered in striking yellow silk, these volumes incorporated a diverse range of topics, from history, art and the Confucian classics to astronomy, medicine and divination. Most of the content was drawn from sections of earlier publications. To facilitate quick searching, compilers arranged entries phonetically into groups according to a standardized rhyming scheme. More than a century later, after a disastrous fire nearly destroyed the encyclopedia, the Jiajing emperor, Zhu Houcong, ordered a copy of the entire set. A team of 109 court scholars labored over five years before finally completing an exact reproduction in 1567. Over ensuing decades, however, the original edition was completely lost. Even now, how and when it went missing remains a mystery. Fortunately, parts of the duplicate set have survived — but just barely. Today, only 420 volumes, or 4 percent of the complete set, remain. This includes two newly discovered volumes that sold for more than $9 million at an auction in Paris in July 2020. Of these, the Library of Congress holds 41 unique, inconsecutive volumes in its Asian Division. Acquired during the early 20th century via purchase and donation, they CHINA’S COLOSSAL form the largest assemblage of Yongle ENCYCLOPEDIA specimens outside Asia. Thanks to collaboration among custodial, ▪ The Library currently is cataloging, conservation and digitization digitizing all 41 volumes This 11,095-volume work of its holdings of the compiled all knowledge known teams, the Library’s Yongle collection is Yongle Encyclopedia. now fully cataloged and undergoing careful Asian Division to Chinese civilization. preservation work. Upon completion of a digitization project in progress, all 41 At the dawn of the 15th century, four volumes of this 450-year-old encyclopedia decades before Johannes Gutenberg will be made available online for readers introduced the metal movable-type printing around the world to study and appreciate press in Europe, the third emperor of up close. China’s Ming dynasty, Zhu Di, ordered the kingdom’s leading scholars to compile a —Qi Qui is head of scholarly services comprehensive work containing all forms of in the Asian Division. 4 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGAZINE OFF THE SHELF of pieces of Ward’s work, from original prints ▪ “God’s Man” presents and woodblocks to the woodworking tools its story through THE FIRST GRAPHIC he used in his craft. The collection is housed uncaptioned woodblock in the Rare Book and Special Collections prints, rendered in a NOVEL dark, foreboding style. Division and the Prints and Photographs Rare Book and Special Ward’s unsettling work Division. Collections Division “Gods’ Man” and Ward’s five subsequent established a new form of wordless novels were not regarded as a bold storytelling. new stroke for literature in their day, but rather as Depression-era quirks. They sold We arrive in the glowing light of spring with a moderately well and drew good-but-not- gift from the dark, shadowy recesses of the great reviews, and Ward moved on to more Library: A beautiful, eerily unsettling work profitable lines of work. of great American significance that, as its artwork suggests, may leave readers with Over time, artists in other fields found his images that cannot easily be dismissed. work and were dazzled. Allen Ginsberg used a section of Ward’s “Wild Pilgrimage” as the The book is “God’s Man,” a 1929 black- inspiration for a section of his poem “Howl.” and-white wordless novel by illustrator and woodcut artist Lynd Ward. The book, which And Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award- tells a Faustian tale of ambition, love, greed winning director of such films as “The Shape and death, is widely regarded as the first of Water” and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” lists Ward American book of the form and the urtext of as one of his key influences. In a 2015 the graphic novel. The story is told through tweet, the Mexican director summed up 139 uncaptioned woodblock prints, rendered Ward’s worldwide influence in a nutshell: in a dark, foreboding style
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