recto: Thomas Sully(born Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, 1783; died Philadelphia, PA,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: H.G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA During his lifetime, Thomas Sully was one of the most prominent portrait painters more »
Month: April 2009
Then Entomologist, Volume 10, 1877Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Libraries Fancy a bit of poetry with your entomology? In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British journal The Entomologist more »
According to the National Park Service, the blossoms should be peaking this weekend. Wm. Elliott & Sons, 50th Annual Edition, 1895. One of the fabulous seed catalogs from the Libraries' more »
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries' response. On November 4, 2008, OCLC announced the release of its new Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records as a replacement for the Guidelines more »
Clair, Jean, ed. The 1930s: The Making of “The New Man”. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2008. N6493 1930 .N38 2008 Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery more »
…April Fools! But there was a time when science wasn't so exact. In the 16th century when the natural sciences were just beginning to be developed and scientists were just more »