From its humble beginnings as an "Automatic Continuous Clothing Closure" invented in 1851 by Elias Howe to the "Clasp Locker" patent in 1893 and marketed by Mr. Whitcomb Judson, the zipper more »
Category: Collection Highlights
The Frog, by Hilaire Belloc Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog," Or likewise "Ugly James," Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong," Or more »
Tunnel books or peep shows are a series of cut-paper panels placed one behind the other, creating the illusion of depth and perspective. Often, these are engineered like an accordion, more »
William Shakespeare, Macbeth “Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of more »
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a more »
For National Garden Month . . . The young lady seems to have made quite a haul. Flowers, melons, cabbage and possibly some record-setting eggplant and tomatoes! From Buist Seed Company, Buist's more »
Maybe Katherine Hepburn was talking about calla lilies, but this image from E.L. Sturtevant's Catalogue of Rare Water Lilies, 1881, from the trade literature collection at the National Museum of American History Library more »