The Library‘s Serial and Government Publications Division is home to one of the most extensive newspaper collections in the world. Included in the collection is the original editorial by Francis P. Church of The New York Sun, explaining to a young girl who wrote into the paper inquiring about whether or not Santa is real. The full text of the editorial (printed September 21, 1897) is below: Is There a Santa Claus? We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below

The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag