The Libraries has many titles in its collections on Walt Disney. Books on his studio’s feature films, the theme parks, biography, cartoons and animation, society and history, even African Art. A few titles below caught my eye, especially The Disneyization of society.
Category: History and Culture
If you don’t have a white picket fence to dupe some neighborhood kids into painting, why not check out some books from the Libraries’ collections by and about pseudonymous birthday boy Mark Twain?
Yesterday, November 26, was National Cake Day. Now who thought that was a good idea, so close to Thanksgiving? Why not National Pie Day?
To teach children the stretch of fingers necessary to play a full-sized piano, the keys on these toy pianos were spaced the same distance apart as the keys on a full-sized piano.
It’s Thanksgiving week and we are well into the season of Fall, so we decided to feature some trade literature with a Fall theme.
At the Smithsonian Libraries, we are surrounded by American trade literature, so It isn’t unusual to see some catalogs for patent medicines with what we would now consider outrageous claims for a product’s miracle qualities.
But the lack of knowledge of why there is such a thing as Button Day shouldn’t prevent us from celebrating all things button, or from highlighting a button-related item from our collections.