In early February, the Libraries hosted a film crew from Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News at the National Museum of American History Library. The book of interest? “Lucky's Collectors Guide more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Ever wonder about luggage from over a hundred years ago? Included in the Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library are luggage-related catalogs. One of these more »
Happy Mother's Day from the Libraries. —Elizabeth Periale Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence, Carol Berkin. Mothering: ideology, experience, and agency, edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace more »
The Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library has in its collection the photograph archive, The Pageant of America. This collection has also recently been digitized by The New York Public Library: In more »
The National Postal Museum Library has many resources on stamp collecting, one for children, one for adults. —Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Paul McCutcheon The boys' own guide to stamp collecting Melville, Frederick John, 1882-1940., HE6213 more »
It's May, and the carp are swimming through the skies of Japan! Well, not really . . . but close enough. In 1948, the Japanese government designated the fifth day more »
This post has been inspired by last month's wonderful post from the Smithsonian Archives, Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian, which features a wider discussion of libraries’ information management more »