What do you say to a cooking icon that you have admired for years and watched on TV? Oh, to finally get my chance to meet that person came true more »
Category: Collection Highlights
This beautiful image is one of many from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. Wilson did the original drawings or paintings from his studies of North American birds, which were then turned more »
How would a Victorian lass keep cool in the dog days of August? Possibly with a summer gown, from The Woman's Book of 1894. This image can be also be more »
The Libraries can celebrate National Apple Week with this illustration of a crab apple by Asa Gray, one of many gorgeous plates included in this report, originally published by the more »
L’ art de la coiffure des dames françoises (The art of coiffure for French ladies) by sieur Legros, nouvelle edition. Paris: Chez Antoine Boudet, 1768. TT956.L519 1768. CHMRB An insight more »
Konrad Gesner, Historia animalium [History of animals], 1551-87 Apparently today has been named Sea Serpent Day. The Libraries is happy to celebrate this occasion by highlighting a plate from more »
We have already featured the lovely artwork of Genevieve Jones in a previous post. But this delicate rendering of a summer warbler from the Libraries' online show Illustrations of Nests more »