Aluminum Ladder Co., Aluminum Ladders, 1939. The Libraries is a big contributor to the Smithsonian Collections Search Center, which is developing into a one-stop-searching center for the public for collections more »
Category: Digitization
Scrolling through the Libraries online exhibition, Scientific Identity, you will see a lot of famous Joes, including Joseph Priestley, Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, and Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande. Today we're featuring Joseph more »
Martin Kalfatovic is Assistant Director of the Libraries’ Digital Services Division responsible for the active digital library program. This program includes the creation of digital editions of library materials, online more »
From the Libraries' digital collection, The Making of a Homemaker: To occupy small children, a simple drawing would be given for them to outline in yarn. This particular drawing would more »
The periodic table of the elements. It is every chemist's cheat sheet and an indispensable fixture in the life of every school's science lab. Despite its ubiquity, did you ever 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 »