When she arrived at the Library of Congress in June, Amanda Mueller, a San Angelo TX native, had no idea what she’d find. Mueller is one of 25 college interns from around the country who surveyed parts of the library’s non-book collections to identify unique items not previously catalogued.
Mueller said when the Library of Congress began handling all of the U.S. copyrights in 1870, “They got a flood of paperwork and just stuffed documents into [these] boxes.”
“Since then, a few people have gone through it randomly, but nobody has made an itemized list of exactly what’s inside,” Mueller said. Contents included cigarette ads featuring children puffing away and a few other equally outdated artifacts. Here’s the AXcess news story, “news for the gen-xer”.
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