Have you got everything you need for tomorrow? The cranberries, the sweet potatoes, the pumpkin pie and the … guest of honor?
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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.
At the Smithsonian Libraries, we are surrounded by American trade literature, so It isn’t unusual to see some catalogs for patent medicines with what we would now consider outrageous claims for a product’s miracle qualities.
But the lack of knowledge of why there is such a thing as Button Day shouldn’t prevent us from celebrating all things button, or from highlighting a button-related item from our collections.
Most of the comments we get lately is this electronic junk mail. I’m not sure why these people even bother. I guess they think that we get enough traffic that we might drive some to their sites, which is sort of flattering. But does internet spam really work?
No matter what you think about Daylight Saving Time in the 21st century, it’s hard not to be happy about that extra hour of sleep …
Ringer Do-Nut Co.,New uncrowded business field, big steady profits in electrically-baked greaseless cake do-nuts, ca. 1932, Greaseless Cake Do-Nuts (cover). Today the libraries features this trade literature catalog from the more »