The Library of Congress is trying to get members of Congress to pay a final visit to its American Treasures exhibit before it closes Aug. 18 after a 10-year run. And it has enlisted its summer interns to help out.
At a reception for members Wednesday, the library will display about 200 previously uncataloged items unearthed from its collections by summer interns.
Among them:
» A 1872 handwritten letter from Henry J. Heinz and his business partner L. Clarence Noble, seeking copyright protection for two colorful condiment labels: “Strictly Pure Horseradish” and “Celebrated Celery Sauce”
» A 1902 copyright deposit manuscript for a musical set in the 2002 White House, with a female president and her all-female Cabinet, titled “An Extra Session: A Chimerical Satire on the Feasible Possibilities Which Woman May Attain a Hundred Years Hence” by William D. Hall
» A 2005 interview with Greta Friedman, who claims to be the woman in Alfred Eisenstadt’s famous photo “V-J Day Kiss” from Times Square on Aug. 15, 1945.
