Is it possible to have too many cat images in one's blog? Not when they're as wonderful as this one! The frantic feline (left) is an illustration of "Phoenix's Feline more »
Category: Special Collections
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate opp. p. 182, plate 15, Library reading chairs Yesterday's post, featuring lovely summery damsels was also from more »
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate 24, "Evening promenade, or sea beach costumes" These young ladies look ready to brave the hot, sandy more »
In this plate from Benjamin Franklin's, Œuvres de M. Franklin, Docteur des loix . . . , 1773, "Portrait of Benjamin Franklin," the great man looks contemplative as a storm rages more »
The Libraries has many images in both the National Zoological Park Library and Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History that we would like to feature during Zoo and Aquarium more »
Last year we featured the Montgolfier brothers and the first hot-air balloon flight in June, 1783. This year the view from above the clouds is wonderfully represented by this volume more »
How better to celebrate Egg Day than to admire these beautiful images of birds' eggs from the Libraries' Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, from the rare volume, Histoire more »