Library of Congress “Behind the Scenes” Tour

	BRCWRT Winter Tour Monday 21 March 2016 Library of Congress “Behind the Scenes”

	The Manuscript Division, Prints and Photographs, and Geography and Mapping Departments
	Tour Marching Orders Date: 21 March 2016 Cost: Free to BRCWRT members, suggest participants use Capital South Metro station which is a half block away on the Orange, Blue & Silver line or local parking garage. Assembly Location/Time: 10:00am – First floor just inside the Independence Ave entrance. All departments are located within the James Madison Building at 101 Independence Ave between 1st & 2nd St, SE, catty-corner from the US Capital Building. Tour Duration: Tour expected to end between 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Lunch: The 6th floor cafeteria is open the public. Sign Up: Please sign up for the tour that will be scheduled early in 2016 using the link to the left on this page. The tour is capped at 20 because of the size limitations of the facility. Inclement Weather: We are not expecting snow, tour is totally indoors. Tour Features: The following are just some of the many possible items we may see during the day: The message from James C. Chesnut and Stephen D. Lee, on behalf of General P. G. T. Beauregard, April 12, 1861, providing one hour’s notice before the Confederate firing on Fort Sumter commenced. A letter from John G. Nicolay to his fiancée Therena Bates, July 21-22, 1861, in which Nicolay provides a running account of news coming from the battlefield at Bull Run/Manassas. An original edition of Volume 1 of Alexander Gardner’s Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War (1865-1866), including scenes from Manassas Original Ambrotypes/Tintypes/Ivorytypes showing Two unidentified sailors in Union uniforms with rope and anchor Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform of the 11th Virginia regiment with knapsack and bedroll Stereographs from the recently acquired Stanford Collection: Tending wounded Union soldiers at Savage's Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign Negro quarters on Fripp Place, St. Helena Island, S.C Drawings about: Colonel Burnside's brigade at Bull Run The battle of Groveton or Second Bull Run. Between the Union army commanded by Genl. Pope and the Confederate army under Genl. Robert E. Lee. Sketched from Baldface Hill, looking towards the village of Groveton Original maps from the Civil War Chief Tour Guide: Kim Brace Cell: 202-607-5857, home: 703-580-7267; kbrace@aol.com Itinerary: • Meet at 10:00am – First floor just inside the Independence Ave entrance. We’ll meet everyone just outside the Manuscript division, which is straight ahead when you get through security. - We’ll spend the morning with Michelle Krowl, Civil War and Reconstruction Specialist in the Manuscript Division • Noon – We’ll go upstairs to the 6th floor cafeteria where lunch and drinks can be purchased. You can bring a sack lunch if you want. There are plenty of tables there and we can pull together a number of them in a corner so everyone can eat together. • 1:00pm – We’ll go downstairs to the basement where the Geography and Map room is located. Map discussion with Mike Buscher, Reference Team Leader in Maps, civil war specialist • 3:00pm – Head up to the third floor, room 337 for the Prints and Photographs division. - Tour and talk by Barbara Orbach Natanson, Head of the Reference Section for the Prints and Photographs Division • 4:30-5:00pm – Tour ends Tour details as a .docx file, click.