The National Postal Museum Library has many resources on stamp collecting, one for children, one for adults. —Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Paul McCutcheon The boys' own guide to stamp collecting Melville, Frederick John, 1882-1940., HE6213 more »
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The Frog, by Hilaire Belloc Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog," Or likewise "Ugly James," Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong," Or more »
William Shakespeare, Macbeth “Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of more »
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a more »
For National Garden Month . . . The young lady seems to have made quite a haul. Flowers, melons, cabbage and possibly some record-setting eggplant and tomatoes! From Buist Seed Company, Buist's more »
Maybe Katherine Hepburn was talking about calla lilies, but this image from E.L. Sturtevant's Catalogue of Rare Water Lilies, 1881, from the trade literature collection at the National Museum of American History Library more »
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur , 1899-1904, Batrachia I may be hopping on the bandwagon a little late this month, but the Libraries has a plethora of more »