Put away the vacuum cleaners and put down the dish rags—it's National No Housework Day. So kick back and enjoy the day! No one is sure when it started, or more »
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Originally published on the Collections Search Center (SIRIS Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) blog . . . The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library recently acquired The Children's Haggadah, pictured here, as a gift more »
April's birthstone is the diamond. I'm sure Marilyn Monroe's alter-ego Lorelei Lee would have been proud to wear any of the fabulous stones pictured below.—Elizabeth Periale Lewis Feuchtwanger, A popular more »
Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, MA. The 1917 Party Book, 1917, Easter gifts ; basket ideas. From Valentine’s Day to the 4th of July, The 1917 Party Book, a trade catalog by more »
The Freer Library is once again open for business! In celebration, enjoy this informative post by librarian Mike Smith: The Freer-Sackler Library's copy of Cang shu ji shi shi or more »
They might not have been April Fools, but they are definitely enjoying themselves . . . Journal des dames et des modes, 1914, Un incroyable et une Cantiniere More images more »
Howard Fogg, Revised encyclopedia of caged birds . . . , 1928, Woodcut showing the family tree of canaries -all varieties coming from the wild canary. The Anacostia Community Museum more »