The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: The Libraries has received Johannes Goedaert’s, Of insects. (York: John White, more »
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The periodic table of the elements. It is every chemist's cheat sheet and an indispensable fixture in the life of every school's science lab. Despite its ubiquity, did you ever more »
As summer wanes, maybe it's time to take the family for a relaxing stroll on the beach…—Elizabeth Periale Le Moniteur de la mode
This beautiful image is one of many from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. Wilson did the original drawings or paintings from his studies of North American birds, which were then turned more »
The Libraries can celebrate National Apple Week with this illustration of a crab apple by Asa Gray, one of many gorgeous plates included in this report, originally published by the more »
Konrad Gesner, Historia animalium [History of animals], 1551-87 Apparently today has been named Sea Serpent Day. The Libraries is happy to celebrate this occasion by highlighting a plate from more »
We have already featured the lovely artwork of Genevieve Jones in a previous post. But this delicate rendering of a summer warbler from the Libraries' online show Illustrations of Nests more »