The illustration features a vivarium which can be used in summer or winter: …more suitable, with certain exceptions, for Snakes than Lizards, as the latter are apt to climb up more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Alexander Lawrie (born New York, NY, 1828; died Lafayette, IN, 1917) Alexander Lawrie, son of a Scottish immigrant, started his artistic career by apprenticing as a wood engraver at the more »
North American Wild Flowers, Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, Plate 336: flower The Fossil Record, a newsletter put out by the Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology, includes more »
The Lovett Co., Lovett's Guide, 1898, Back Cover If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.—Dean Martin Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the more »
In 1940, a star was born. Bugs Bunny appeared in A Wild Hare which also starred his ever-hunting co-star, Elmer Fudd. Over the past 69 years, Bugs has starred in more »
Recto: Abraham Woodside (born Philadelphia, PA, 1819; died Philadelphia, PA,1853) Verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Abraham Woodside was a prominent artist in Philadephia in the mid-nineteenth century. more »
Garrison-Wagner Company, Christmas Displays, 1955 If the summer heat is getting you down, why not close your eyes and try to conjure up a snowman and celebrate Christmas in July? more »