Mathematician Tatiana Ehrenfest is one of many scientific portraits to be found in the Libraries' Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Tatiana more »
Month: March 2009
The Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG) grew out of the Smithsonian’s National Museum, later known as the “National Gallery of Art”. In 1937 the Andrew Mellon more »
Carrie H. Lippincott from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the self-titled “Pioneer Seedswoman of America.” She started a seed business in 1886 out of the necessity of increasing the family income. By more »
On Saturday, February 28, 2009, the Cooper-Hewitt Library celebrated the release of the new online Caldwell database to feature over 35,000 photographs and drawings from the Caldwell & Company archive more »
The Libraries has an extensive collection of seed catalogs as part of its trade literature collection. One of the many companies represented in our collection that is still in business more »
This featured Biodiversity Heritage Library book, contributed by the Ernst Mayer Library at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, is from the nineteenth century author Catherine Cooper Hopley. Hopley not only more »
Stage and screen actress Tallulah Bankhead is one of many Hollywood personalities featured in the Libraries' Celebrity Caricature: In the late 1990's the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National more »