Just under the wire, the Libraries does tribute to National Duckling Month with this wonderful image from its digital collection, Ornithologie, by François-Nicolas Martinet. François-Nicolas Martinet, Ornithologie [Histoire des Oiseaux Peints more »
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Albert Francis Zahm, The Smithsonian Report for 1914, 1915, Langley Aeroplane (Built 1898-1903) Ready for Launching at Hammondsport, N.Y., May 28, 1914. This image, from The first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained more »
Originally published on the Collections Search Center (SIRIS Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) blog . . . This jaunty cover image from a 1916 catalog for Indian Motorcycles shows a happily-waving young more »
Smithsonian Institution Libraries presents David S. Ferriero Democracy 2.0: A Case Study in Open Government How the National Archives' own Open Government Plan is reaching out to new audiences through social more »
Today one of the Freer/Sackler Archives volunteers brought some beautiful peonies from her garden to add colors and elegance to the newly renovated FSG library reading room. Chinese people have more »
The author Jin Yong is beloved and famed in the Chinese speaking world for his popular martial arts novels, perhaps as famous there as J.R.R. Tolkien is in the English-speaking more »