The Libraries would like to highlight some new titles that have been added recently to the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library.
Tag: Arts
The conservation lab is working on two printed and bound editions of comic strips that originally ran in The New York Herald at the turn of the 20th century. The books are part of the Cooper-Hewitt Library collection.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/4899537612/in/photostream/Artpolice is a serial that can be found in the Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library’s own collection of “little magazines,” which specializes in the forward-thinking art and aesthetics of small press publications of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
. . . Yeah, I'm the taxman. And you're working for no one but me.—The Beatles More Mutt & Jeff images can be found in the Libraries' Galaxy of Images. more »
This sweet group of pocket-sized almanacs by British children's book illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) were issued between 1884 and 1895. Greenaway's scenes of beautifully-dressed children frolicking in the countryside were more »
Featured on Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: New & Notable Pop-ups & Movables from the Cooper-Hewitt Library: The first movable books for children, developed in England in the 1700s, were more »