This featured Biodiversity Heritage Library book, contributed by the Ernst Mayer Library at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, is from the nineteenth century author Catherine Cooper Hopley. Hopley not only more »
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Portrait of Marie Curie (1867-1934), PhysicistOriginally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution Among the many interesting photos in the Dibner Library's collection of portraits of scientists is this 1934 photo of Marie more »
Libraries exhibit Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration is being pointed to in the blogosphere via its mention in The Librarian's Internet Index "New this Week" feature.—Elizabeth Periale
No, it's a quagga! From the Libraries' current exhibition, The Art of African Exploration: Quaggas were frequently confused with zebras in early explorers’ accounts. Unlike zebras, a quagga’s stripes are more »
Smithsonian Libraries is blogging, tweeting and facebooking. It's a 2.0 world and the Libraries is a part of it. If you'd like to keep up with the collections, events around more »
As you browse the Libraries extensive image site, Galaxy of Images, you might run across this Baedeker from the online exhibition Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travelers in Egypt. more »
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration is currently on view at the National Museum of American History. The exhibition includes many outstanding illustrated books from the Libraries' collections, including more »