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 »
Category: Art and Design
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 »
The Master Silk Printer of April 1923, a trade publication in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library collection, joined in the “Egyptomania” phenomenon and featured a new line of printed fabrics inspired by more »
From Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn… Shakespeare's Globe: an interactive pop-up theatre / Toby Forward; Juan Wijngaard. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, c2005. King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, more »
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 »
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 »