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Research Center Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room

Story Maps

In addition to finding aids and research guides, the Rare Book and Special Collections Division also has several Esri StoryMaps for researchers and educators.

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The Art of Instruction This Story Map explores instructional texts from Europe dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries and features books on architecture, text and the human figure.
- Date: 2023-03-10
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INCUNABULA This Story Map will explore major themes in fifteenth-century (incunabula) printing, including: the transition from manuscript to print, early hand-printing methods, the invention typography, and the integration of woodcut illustrations with type.
- Date: 2019-09-18
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Marking the Hours This Story Map will explore how individuals and communities in the Late Middle Ages in Western Europe thought about the nature of time, how they experienced time, and what tools they used for measuring time.
- Date: 2022-01-18
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The Giant Bible of Mainz This Story Map provides a visual journey through the Giant Bible of Mainz, a lavish yet unfinished Middle-Rhenish manuscript written at the same time as Johannes Gutenberg was printing his famous bible.
- Date: 2023-02-27

Location

Library of Congress
10 First Street, SE
Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ 239
Washington, DC 20540-4810
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Hours

Public Hours
Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Final book requests at 4:15pm
Closed Weekends & Federal Holidays