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This beautiful image is one of many from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. Wilson did the original drawings or paintings from his studies of North American birds, which were then turned more »
How would a Victorian lass keep cool in the dog days of August? Possibly with a summer gown, from The Woman's Book of 1894. This image can be also be more »
Claire Catron, Head, Interlibrary Loan Office, Vicki Avera, Special Project Manager and Librarian Polly Lasker initiated a users survey as part of the Libraries strategic planning efforts to connect with more »
The Libraries can celebrate National Apple Week with this illustration of a crab apple by Asa Gray, one of many gorgeous plates included in this report, originally published by the more »
…comes this catalog from the Libraries' collections, The New York Coach-Maker's Magazine. Featured here is a physician's phaeton, just one of many state-of-the-art conveyances from this interesting item. Take a more »
We have already featured the lovely artwork of Genevieve Jones in a previous post. But this delicate rendering of a summer warbler from the Libraries' online show Illustrations of Nests more »