From Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn… Wishing Sesame Street a Happy 40th Anniversary from the Libraries! Sesame Street characters can be found in several of the pop-up and movable more »
Month: November 2009
In November of 1922, after eight long years, British archaeologist Howard Carter finally succeeded in finding the 3,000 year old tomb of King Tutankhamen. It took more than a year more »
On this day in 1835 the author, inventor, investor, steamboat captain, social rights advocate and adventurer Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. Better known by his pen name more »
There's always leftovers the day after…—Elizabeth Periale Top: Eleazar Albin, A natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their more »
An image from a 1901 seed catalog back cover, featuring some Bronze Turkeys with "1/4 wild blood." These images are also part of the Libraries online exhibition, Seed Catalogs. Happy Thanksgiving more »
The Libraries exhibition, Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration is still on exhibit at the National Museum of American History, through the end of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. more »
“The most important single book in science”—Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science One hundred fifty years ago, in November 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the origin of species was published. The 1,250 more »