Walk into the Library’s annual showcase of new acquisitions and the question always hits you right in the face: Where to start? What about with this slim copy of Silver Surfer No. 1, the origin story of Marvel Comics’ “Sentinel of the Spaceways,” from the groovy year of 1968? How about this massive law book that’s more than 500 years old? The “Tombstone Edition” of a Philadelphia newspaper from 1765, which documented and amplified the American Colonies loathing of the Stamp Act and presaged the American Revolution? There’s never really a wrong place to start. This year’s two-hour show-and-tell, held last week, brought hundreds of staffers and guests to look over intriguing displays of the Library’s recently acquired treasures, items spanning the nation, the globe and centuries of time. Many added to already impressive collections of historic figures. “It’s not just that these are interesting photos of Ella Fitzgerald,” Raymond White, a senior music specialist in the Music Division, told several people clustered around his table, who were all gazing down at three 8-by-10-inch portraits of the jazz legend. “It’s what the three of them tell you when they are put together…” It was a crowded, noisy, upbeat afternoon of discovery…
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(Some of) The newest stuff at the Library!
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