In 1839 Haswell Barrington And Haswell of Philadelphia published The conchologist’s first book: a system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according more »
Month: April 2009
recto: Chauncey B. Ives (born Hamden, CT, 1810; died Rome, Italy,1894) verso: Carte-de-visite photography studio: Ferrando Photographic Studio, Rome, Italy Chauncey Ives was one of the most popular American sculptors more »
Moran, Michael F. Striking Change: The Great Artistic Collaboration of Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Atlanta: Whitman, 2008. 432 p. N40.1.S13 M67 2008 Instrumental in creation of the Smithsonian American more »
The Libraries would like to showcase a few images from its Heralds of Science collection today. Many of the titles can be found in this online show or by searching more »
Librarian Stephen Van Dyk, from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library in New York, worked with photographer and design historian Andrew Garn on a new book, Exit to Tomorrow: History more »
He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.—William Shakespeare "Plate 165: Le Coucou de Mindenao," François-Nicolas Martinet, Ornithologie [Histoire des Oiseaux Peints dans Tous Leurs Aspects Apparents more »