New on Galaxy of Images … Some wonderful images from Floriated ornament: a series of thirty-one designs, 1849, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, a famous British designer and architect, most well-known for his design of the Palace of Westminster.
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Wishing you happiness and health for the new year!
Nancy E. Gwinn and the Smithsonian Libraries staff
Wishing you happiness and health for the new year! Nancy E. Gwinn and the Smithsonian Libraries staff.
We hope you will join us on December 1, 2010 for the lecture by Chuck Fischer: Creating a Pop-Up Book and The Enduring Appeal Of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
On August 10, 1846, Congress passed an act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, named in honor of James Smithson, a British mineralogist and chemist who unexpectedly bequeathed a fortune to the United States government for “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”
As institutional repositories mature throughout major research organizations, more and more people are thinking of integrating them into the larger research infrastructure. Many universities, especially in the UK and Australia more »
Chicago Sewing Machine Co., The Defiance Sewing Machines, 1900, Illustration of Defiance No. 4 On this day in 1790, the first patent for a sewing machine was granted. With its more »