The Libraries has many books in its Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library on the funny redhead.
Category: Art and Design
The Libraries has a list of American Women’s History Resources with links to many interesting items, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection at the Library of Congress, which includes items of the famous suffragette.
Grant Wood, most famously known as the painter of American Gothic, became one of the United States’ most famous artists in the 1930s when the canvas made its splash at the Art Institute of Chicago’s forty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture.
To celebrate the 16th president’s birthday the Libraries has many items in its collections. Here are some highlights.
When one thinks of inventors, it's hard not to picture Thomas Edison, who is responsible for the title quote. Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, San Francisco. more »
As the Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG), where I am working, deals mainly in art-related items, I was a bit concerned that works on Dickens would be rather hard to come by. Fortunately, I was entirely wrong. In fact, in the main stacks, I found enough books both by and about Dickens that I needed to make two trips to carry them all!
In the words of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, this child’s alphabet primer and portfolio with over 400 illustrations, The child’s picture scrap book, from 1865, makes learning the alphabet and reading fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk as simple as, well, do re mi.