Barbie was first introduced on March, 9, 1959. Since then she has been the subject of little kids' fantasies, role-play, feminist studies, and all-out consumerism. She has been everything from more »
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Originally published on the Collections Search Center (SIRIS Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) blog . . . This has been a winter to remember in the Washington, D.C. region. Early February more »
On March 7, 1876 the telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell. It's clear from the trade catalogue below that it didn't take too long for folks to get more than more »
Brenda Putnam was a sculptor and daughter of the first Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam. Some of her most well-known pieces include the Puck statue at the Folger Library in more »
Leonardo da Vinci diagrammed one of the first parachutes designed in the late 15th century. Since Leonardo da Vinci was a well-known polymath, artist, and engineer, many reference questions about him have come to more »
As part of the Libraries' two-day symposium, “The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion in the 17th – 19th Centuries” today and tomorrow, March 5 British historian more »
No, it's not a fifties horror movie—not yet! The Smithsonian acquired a giant octopus in January and it is now on display to the public. He may be deceptively small more »