The second Sunday in March is Buzzard Day. The Libraries’ Galaxy of Images makes it easy to celebrate, wth two wonderful plates by Mark Catesby and François-Nicolas Martinet featuring buzzards.
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As noted by Smithsonian namesake James Smithson in his personal copy of Travels through the states of North America: and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the years more »
Today in 1947 the Polaroid Land camera made its debut. The Libraries featured Polaroid items from its trade literature collection last year, as well as museum objects from the National Museum of American History.
The Libraries has many books in its Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library on the funny redhead.
The planet Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh on this date in 1930. He used a 13-inch astrograph to photograph and identify the planet. Tombaugh also believed in the possiblily of extraterrestrial activity and claimed to have seen UFOs.
The Libraries has a list of American Women’s History Resources with links to many interesting items, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection at the Library of Congress, which includes items of the famous suffragette.
Sure to be the life of any party, Miss Valentine models the latest in crepe paper fashions, ca. 1917.