Vanessa Haight Smith is the Libraries book conservator for the Preservation Services department. She has held this position for two and a half years. Her conservation career began as an more »
Month: October 2009
Angela N. Haggins, Librarian for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library (SERC), located in Edgewater, Maryland, has compiled a brief, select bibliography of the publications of Eva J. Pell, the more »
Recto: Charles Caryl Coleman (born Buffalo, NY, 1840; died Capri, Italy, 1928) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: Lorenzo Suscipj (1802-1885), Rome, Italy A native of Buffalo New York and nephew of an more »
Golden Noble, Lord Derby, Devonshire Quarrenden, Gravenstein, Ellison's Orange . . . what are these you might ask? They are varieties of apples that can be found in The new book of more »
From Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: Ali Baba e i 40 ladroni, [Ali Baba and the 40 thieves], Mario Zampini and Raimondo Centurione, Milan: Hoepli editore, ca. 1950, Gift of more »
Ever wonder how candy was made in the nineteenth century? An 1874 catalog from Thomas Mills & Brother entitled Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of Goods advertises a machine which made more »
Mike Hardy is truly a jack of all trades. Before joining the Libraries, Hardy worked as a greens keeper at a private golf course, delivered furniture, carried groceries to shut-ins, more »