On June 1st, summer intern Brett Lambert joined the Libraries’ Digital Services Division. Lambert is a candidate in the Alberta Smithsonian Internship Program (ASIP), which is a special partnership between more »
Category: Digitization
Lewton, Frederick L., The Servant in the House: A Brief History of the Sewing Machine, 1930. "Illustration of Singer Sewing Machine Published in 1853." On this day in history—July 17th—the more »
L to R: Doug Dunlop, Metadata Services; Keri Thompson, Web Services; Jen Cohlman, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library Each year at the Smithsonian staff picnic on the National Mall, the Smithsonian more »
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip around it. Trans. by Louis Mercier and Eleanor King [De la terre more »
Don't worry, not all the work is so glamorous! Hoover Company, Hoover: The Story of a Crusade, 1926, Hoover test of woman vacuuming There are many behind-the-scenes folks who volunteer more »
David Pelletier, The Graphic Alphabet, New York: Orchard, c. 1996, Gift of Patricia Fendley Dunston, N, Noodles Happy National Macaroni Day. And remember, N is for noodles… From Picturing Words: more »
Portrait of Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin On July 2, 1900, Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin flew the first airship, later dubbed zeppelin, near Lake Constance in Germany, with five passengers more »