Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman, born in Texas in 1892, was the first female African American pilot, and the first African American to obtain an international pilot’s license.
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The Libraries has a list of American Women’s History Resources with links to many interesting items, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection at the Library of Congress, which includes items of the famous suffragette.
Sure to be the life of any party, Miss Valentine models the latest in crepe paper fashions, ca. 1917.
Grant Wood, most famously known as the painter of American Gothic, became one of the United States’ most famous artists in the 1930s when the canvas made its splash at the Art Institute of Chicago’s forty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture.
To celebrate the 16th president’s birthday the Libraries has many items in its collections. Here are some highlights.
When one thinks of inventors, it's hard not to picture Thomas Edison, who is responsible for the title quote. Frank Morton Todd, The Story of the Exposition, San Francisco. more »
An umbrella protects us from the rain, but it can also be used in other ways. So today, on Umbrella Day, we are featuring a different type of umbrella—one that was popular at bridal showers. It’s an umbrella used as a gift holder.