How better to celebrate Egg Day than to admire these beautiful images of birds' eggs from the Libraries' Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, from the rare volume, Histoire more »
Category: Collection Highlights
The radio was patented by Guglielmo Marconi n 1896. But the "invention" of radio has its roots in the experiments of many, including Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Michael Faraday, just more »
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale
Just under the wire, the Libraries does tribute to National Duckling Month with this wonderful image from its digital collection, Ornithologie, by François-Nicolas Martinet. François-Nicolas Martinet, Ornithologie [Histoire des Oiseaux Peints more »
Albert Francis Zahm, The Smithsonian Report for 1914, 1915, Langley Aeroplane (Built 1898-1903) Ready for Launching at Hammondsport, N.Y., May 28, 1914. This image, from The first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained 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 »