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 »
Category: Collection Highlights
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 »
Mrs. Lydia Green Abell The Skillful Housewife’s Book: or Complete Guide to Domestic Cookery, Taste, Comfort and Economy, 1853 This frontispiece from Mrs. Lydia Abell's ladies guide, The Skillful Housewife's 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 »