At the start of 1962 the United States seemed to be in danger of losing the Space Race to the Soviet Union. While we had managed to launch two astronauts more »
Category: Art and Design
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate opp. p. 182, plate 15, Library reading chairs Yesterday's post, featuring lovely summery damsels was also from more »
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate 24, "Evening promenade, or sea beach costumes" These young ladies look ready to brave the hot, sandy more »
Born in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the greatest American architect of the last century. The magazine featured here, ReD. Revue Svazu moderní kultury Devětsil [ReD: Review of the more »
Today one of the Freer/Sackler Archives volunteers brought some beautiful peonies from her garden to add colors and elegance to the newly renovated FSG library reading room. Chinese people have more »
The author Jin Yong is beloved and famed in the Chinese speaking world for his popular martial arts novels, perhaps as famous there as J.R.R. Tolkien is in the English-speaking more »
The Libraries’ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library is offering an opportunity for friends and supporters to connect through Amazon.com! Through the Cooper-Hewitt Library Wish List, anyone can contribute to the more »