Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop in Greenfield village, Dearborn, Michigan, April sixteen, nineteen hundred thirty-eight., 1938? Taking to the Skies: The more »
Month: December 2009
Thomas Webster, An Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy, 1845 Today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The Libraries has many books on this important historical event—in its collections at more »
The Libraries has some original Thomas Alva Edison trade literature as well as numerous publications on the enterprising inventor in its collections: Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs A practical guide for more »
Many children in the United States write letters addressed to Santa Claus at the North Pole each year. But how many of you have written to scientists living at the more »
President Theodore Roosevelt, who held office from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909, agreed in 1906 to accept Charles Freer's art collection into the Smithsonian Institution on behalf of more »
Or any day… Happy National Cocoa Day. Walter Baker & Co., Cocoa and chocolate; a short history of their production…, [c 1886]