To celebrate the 16th president’s birthday the Libraries has many items in its collections. Here are some highlights.
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This plate from John James Audubon’s The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States and their territories, 1840-1844 depicts the Hudsonian Godwit, or Limosa haemastica. As you might suspect, they tend to breed near the Hudson Bay, as well as farther north in Canada and even as far as Alaska, and then migrating to South America.
In the words of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, this child’s alphabet primer and portfolio with over 400 illustrations, The child’s picture scrap book, from 1865, makes learning the alphabet and reading fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk as simple as, well, do re mi.
The Libraries exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn is still on display in the National Museum of American History. Stop by and see some fabulous examples of pop-up and movable books, from the 1600s to today.
William Dampier was an explorer and amateur scientist and a bit of a pirate. According to Wikipedia, his expededitions’ findings may have influenced men as diverse as Charles Darwin, James Cook Daniel Defoe, and Horatio Nelson.
Popular wisdom says that girls feet stop growing around the age of 14 or so and boys a year or so later. But we all know that the shoes we wore in high school probably wouldn’t fit us today, as other factors such as weight gain, preganancy and a later growth spurt can affect the size and growth of feet. When’s the last time you actually had someone measure your feet before trying on a new pair of shoes? Maybe today’s the day.
I’m just grateful to be a few branches above the mud-fish, although I’m feeling a little sorry and perplexed about the bad luck of the mud fish, sans hyphen.