Today is the first day of winter. Some Ella Jenkins music might get you in the right, chilly mood.—Elizabeth Periale Image from: Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon more »
Tag: Smithsonian Libraries
Sears Christmas Book, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Chicago: 1956, Cover From the Libraries exhibtion, Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, which is currently on view in the National Museum more »
Regina Green, Library Technician since 1983, will retire in early 2010. At a recent reception in her honor, Sheila Riley, Catalog Management, said a few words which are excerpted here: more »
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop in Greenfield village, Dearborn, Michigan, April sixteen, nineteen hundred thirty-eight., 1938? Taking to the Skies: The more »
President Theodore Roosevelt, who held office from September 14, 1901 to March 4, 1909, agreed in 1906 to accept Charles Freer's art collection into the Smithsonian Institution on behalf of more »
Or any day… Happy National Cocoa Day. Walter Baker & Co., Cocoa and chocolate; a short history of their production…, [c 1886]