Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art; San Francisco 1955-1968. Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig, 2008. This catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne focuses more »
Month: June 2009
Elwin R. Sanborn, The New York Zoological Park, 1905, Orang-utans around a table The Libraries has many guidebooks in its collections, as well as an interesting online show.
Gillette Safety Razor Co., Gillette Blade, Silver Jubilee Issue, 1926, Catalog cover, globe and razor (top) and Tuckaway and Traveler razors (below) “We do not realize it, but compared with more »
Today is Bald Eagle Day.—Elizabeth Periale William L. Bailey, Our own birds; or a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States, 1863, "Bald eagle, Engraving of the more »
De Laval Separator Co., De Laval Cream Separators, Farm and Dairy Sizes, 1913, Above: Cover Below: Illustrating the Automatic Oiling of an Improved De Laval Cream Separator To celebrate National more »
Above: The beauty of Botanica Magnifica was on display during the event Below: Guests enjoy a rare opportunity to view an Audubon On June 10, around 70 guests gathered for more »
To celebrate the current Smithsonian Libraries exhibition Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, Helena Wright, Curator of Graphic Arts at the National Museum of American History, will present “Book more »