The Libraries' National Museum of American History Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year: The Libraries accepted a collection of mail order catalogs from Dr. Saul Zalesch, more »
Category: Collection Highlights
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Library boasts more than 10,000 postcards in its “hidden” collection; arranged by subject in card file drawers, they range in date from the turn more »
The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: The Libraries has received Charles Darwin’s Geological observations on the volcanic more »
Would a fine 19th-century British lady be likely to shriek and swoon onto a fainting-couch upon seeing these images of monstrous-looking insects? Or would she eagerly pick up a paint more »
The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: The Libraries has received Johannes Goedaert’s, Of insects. (York: John White, more »
While it may not be a bicentennial, the year 2009 marks what would have been the 175th birthday of August Weismann, a German biologist and one of the founders of more »
As summer wanes, maybe it's time to take the family for a relaxing stroll on the beach…—Elizabeth Periale Le Moniteur de la mode