At the start of 1962 the United States seemed to be in danger of losing the Space Race to the Soviet Union. While we had managed to launch two astronauts more »
Category: History and Culture
National Cash Register, Annual Report, The National Cash Register Company, 1953, Computers ready for test and inspection at Computer Research factory Alan Mathison Turing was born on this day, June more »
June is Rose Month. This 1899 seed catalog from Peter Henderson & Co., Manual of Everything for the Garden, is also part of the Libraries' Seed Catalogs digital collection. —Elizabeth Periale
Ira W. Porter, A report of the delegation from the National Fraternal Congress, 1909?, Model of Sanitary Dairy Last year for National Dairy Month the Libraries featured a cream separator more »
The game of tennis as we know it today caught on in the United States in the 1880s: In America in 1874 Mary Ewing Outerbridge, a young socialite, returned from more »
Belt Life Preserver, Armed Forces History, Division of History of Technology, National Museum of American History, Master Tire and Rubber Company (Manufacturer) 50 Mission Crush Hat, Armed Forces History, Division of more »