The Libraries' Book Conservation Lab is pleased to introduce volunteer Andra Risch. Each of our volunteers is essential in helping with the constant workflow within general collections care. Andra Risch more »
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Hopefully this Wild Goose (or Oie Sauvage) won't get too wild . . .—Elizabeth Periale François-Nicolas Martinet,Ornithologie [Histoire des Oiseaux Peints dans Tous Leurs Aspects Apparents et Sensibles] [Ornithology], 1773-1792, more »
Today is the first day of winter. Some Ella Jenkins music might get you in the right, chilly mood.—Elizabeth Periale Image from: Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon more »
Or any day… Happy National Cocoa Day. Walter Baker & Co., Cocoa and chocolate; a short history of their production…, [c 1886]
Elwin R. Sanborn, The New York Zoological Park, 1905, Orang-utans around a table The Libraries has many guidebooks in its collections, as well as an interesting online show.
On February 2nd, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries welcomed a film crew into the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History. The purpose of the shoot was to tape a more »
Then Entomologist, Volume 10, 1877Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Libraries Fancy a bit of poetry with your entomology? In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British journal The Entomologist more »