Story Maps at the Library of Congress are immersive web applications that tell the incredible stories of the Library’s collections through narrative, multimedia, and interactive maps.
Story Maps
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Web Page"A Handsome Box": The Adams Building External Construction, architecture, and history of services in the John Adams Building at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2024-02-20
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Web Page"A Handsome Box": The Adams Building The John Adams Building, originally called the Annex, opened in 1939 to accommodate the ever growing Library of Congress collection. Explore the construction, architecture, and history of library services through photos and documents.- Date: 2023-08-04
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Web PageIntroducing the Telephone at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia that celebrated the 100th birthday of the United States delighted the exhibition goers with the latest and brightest inventions reflecting human progress. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone was one of those inventions publicly demonstrated at the exhibition. This is the story of this milestone that forever changed human communication.- Date: 2023-10-23
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Web PageRampaging Invisible Killer Stalks the Entire Country! From 1918 to 1919, an invisible murder swept the world killing between 20 and 50 million people. The United States was not spared this fate. The Influenza pandemic of 1918 spared no one across the United States, this is its story.- Date: 2023-03-10
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Web Page¡a la huelga todos! ¡a la huelga todos! by Tania M. Ríos Marrero, 2021 Junior Fellow in the Science, Technology and Business Division. A brief history of the 1942 sugar industry strike in Puerto Rico drawing connections between aspects of land use, food production and social movement at the edges of the industrial and modern era.- Date: 2021-08-03