Brandon Head, The food of the gods, a popular account of cocoa, 1903 The National Museum of American History blog recently ran a post on a candy maker. Being good more »
Category: Collection Highlights
Galaxy of Images features many spectacular amphibians.—Elizabeth Periale
recto: Thomas Sully(born Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, 1783; died Philadelphia, PA,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: H.G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA During his lifetime, Thomas Sully was one of the most prominent portrait painters more »
Clair, Jean, ed. The 1930s: The Making of “The New Man”. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2008. N6493 1930 .N38 2008 Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery more »
…April Fools! But there was a time when science wasn't so exact. In the 16th century when the natural sciences were just beginning to be developed and scientists were just more »
The Libraries has been digitizing the entire corpus of Smithsonian serial publications for the past few years. We’re getting very near to completion of the first phase of the project, more »
The Smithsonian's Kite Festival is today. Head on down to the Washington Monument and check it out. You might even see a kite like the one pictured below, from the more »