The Smithsonian's Freer-Sackler Library features numerous items related to the Tian Yi Ge Library Museum in Ningbo, China, the private library of the Fan family dating back to the early more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day. Here is a recipe from the Libraries' trade literature collection to whet your appetite…—Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Jim Roan & Mike Hardy
May is National Duckling Month.—Elizabeth Periale "Plate 91 – The Pied-bill Dopchick," Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, more »
We like to think we have many jewels in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' collections in the figurative sense, but here is a lovely volume bound in precious mother-of-pearl with silver more »
recto: Rembrandt Peale (born Bucks County, PA, 1778; died Philadelphia, PA,1860) verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Rembrandt Peale was born into a family of artists during the more »
The Libraries features the Album Mexicano. The portrait in the upper left is famous general Santa Anna.—Elizabeth Periale Plate 15, Album mexicano : retratos de los personages ilustres de la more »
The Smithsonian is celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage during the month of May with films, performances, talks, tours, and family programs. The Libraries would also like to highlight some images more »