In early February, the Libraries hosted a film crew from Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News at the National Museum of American History Library. The book of interest? “Lucky's Collectors Guide more »
Category: History and Culture
Ever wonder about luggage from over a hundred years ago? Included in the Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library are luggage-related catalogs. One of these more »
Happy Mother's Day from the Libraries. —Elizabeth Periale Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence, Carol Berkin. Mothering: ideology, experience, and agency, edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace more »
The National Postal Museum Library has many resources on stamp collecting, one for children, one for adults. —Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Paul McCutcheon The boys' own guide to stamp collecting Melville, Frederick John, 1882-1940., HE6213 more »
It's May, and the carp are swimming through the skies of Japan! Well, not really . . . but close enough. In 1948, the Japanese government designated the fifth day more »
From its humble beginnings as an "Automatic Continuous Clothing Closure" invented in 1851 by Elias Howe to the "Clasp Locker" patent in 1893 and marketed by Mr. Whitcomb Judson, the zipper more »
For National Garden Month . . . The young lady seems to have made quite a haul. Flowers, melons, cabbage and possibly some record-setting eggplant and tomatoes! From Buist Seed Company, Buist's more »