Before there were ballpoints … a person could buy steel points for their pen from a catalog like this, each point sporting a fancy name like “Counting House,” “Congressional,” “Aviator,” and “Society Stub.”
Month: June 2011
The Libraries would like to highlight some new titles that have been added recently to the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. – Robert Browning Hamilton
Listed below are some early June new arrivals in the Natural History and sublocation libraries.
Here are some featured titles from the National Museum of American History Library for the 67th anniversary of D-Day.
For National Adopt A Cat Month … Furry felines were the rage even in the 16th century, as can be witnessed in Konrad Gesner’s Historia animalium [History of animals], 1551-87, which includes this very imposing looking cat.
Like Wade, following the names and descriptions associated with the Japanese Giant Salamander (Hynobius nebulosus, Andrias japonicus, Cryptobranchidae, just to name a few) finally led me to the Smithsonian Channel’s Nick Baker, and his adventures with the Hellbender, North America’s own Giant Salamander Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures. Yes, I knew I was back in the States when reading out the aliases of the Hellbender–“snot otter,” “mud-devil,” “grampus.”