recto: Rembrandt Peale (born Bucks County, PA, 1778; died Philadelphia, PA,1860) verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Rembrandt Peale was born into a family of artists during the more »
Category: Art and Design
The Cooper Union Building, Astor Place. New York City c. 1869-70. The Kubler Collection, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Roma Korris, 85, is one of the Cooper-Hewitt’s Library’s most valued volunteers. more »
recto: Chauncey B. Ives (born Hamden, CT, 1810; died Rome, Italy,1894) verso: Carte-de-visite photography studio: Ferrando Photographic Studio, Rome, Italy Chauncey Ives was one of the most popular American sculptors more »
Moran, Michael F. Striking Change: The Great Artistic Collaboration of Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Atlanta: Whitman, 2008. 432 p. N40.1.S13 M67 2008 Instrumental in creation of the Smithsonian American more »
Librarian Stephen Van Dyk, from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library in New York, worked with photographer and design historian Andrew Garn on a new book, Exit to Tomorrow: History more »
recto: Samuel F.B. Morse (born Charlestown, MA, 1781; died New York, NY,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: Mathew Brady Studios, New York, NY & Washington, DC Samuel Morse is most known for more »
As a follow up to our post from last week…you can watch the CBS News Sunday Morning segment on Botanica Magnifica in an eight minute clip on YouTube. Enjoy!—Liz O'Brien