Ever wonder what a wedding in the past might have been like? Art and Decoration in Crepe and Tissue Paper by Dennison Manufacturing Co. gives us a view into 1917 more »
Category: Trade Literature
The annual Kentucky Derby is now held on the first Saturday in May; however, the first running of the Derby was on Monday, May 17, 1875. Today, we mark the more »
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 »
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 »
Maybe Katherine Hepburn was talking about calla lilies, but this image from E.L. Sturtevant's Catalogue of Rare Water Lilies, 1881, from the trade literature collection at the National Museum of American History Library more »
In the spirit of Earth Day, the Libraries is "recycling" its Earth Day post from last year. Enjoy! Straw bale building: an old technology in a new environment Reading Art Molella’s more »