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Publications from the Preservation Directorate answer many questions about the care, handling and storage of works on paper.

One of 20 films advertised in Edison films catalog no. 94, under the category "Dewey Doings." From the catalog: "We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the…

Portrait of Tubby Spencer, catcher for the Boston Red Sox, on a Ramly Turkish Cigarette brand tobacco card.

Biography of Admiral George Dewey.

Historical Thinking Matters provides high school students with a framework that teaches them to read documents like historians. Using these "habits of mind," they will be able to interrogate historical sources and use them to form reasoned…

This telegram, in code from Assistant Secretary of the the Navy Theodore Roosevelt to Commodore George Dewey, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron, was sent without the knowledge of Secretary of the Navy Long. The telegram authorized Dewey to…

"The Sport of Life and Death" web site supports The Mint Museum of Art's traveling exhibition about the world's first team sport—The Mesoamerican Ballgame.

The 122nd annual meeting of the Association will be held January 3–6, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Wardman Park, the Omni Shoreham, and the Hilton Washington.

Many of the profession’s most distinguished members will be present to…

On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress recreated a typical concert of brass-band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. Old Memories is one of those songs recorded.

These recordings are the result of…

Baseball card picturing pitcher Cy Young, then playing for the Cleveland Naps, packaged in Piedmont brand cigarettes produced by the American Tobacco Company.