Mrs. Lydia Green Abell The Skillful Housewife’s Book: or Complete Guide to Domestic Cookery, Taste, Comfort and Economy, 1853 This frontispiece from Mrs. Lydia Abell's ladies guide, The Skillful Housewife's more »
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From Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn… Wishing Sesame Street a Happy 40th Anniversary from the Libraries! Sesame Street characters can be found in several of the pop-up and movable more »
In November of 1922, after eight long years, British archaeologist Howard Carter finally succeeded in finding the 3,000 year old tomb of King Tutankhamen. It took more than a year more »
On this day in 1835 the author, inventor, investor, steamboat captain, social rights advocate and adventurer Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. Better known by his pen name more »
There's always leftovers the day after…—Elizabeth Periale Top: Eleazar Albin, A natural history of English song-birds, and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their more »
An image from a 1901 seed catalog back cover, featuring some Bronze Turkeys with "1/4 wild blood." These images are also part of the Libraries online exhibition, Seed Catalogs. Happy Thanksgiving more »
The Libraries exhibition, Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration is still on exhibit at the National Museum of American History, through the end of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. more »