On August 6, we opened up a package in our mail, and we found the original letter from 1994, along with a copy of the book! The book is a guide to the “Strange Gods, Strange Altars” exhibit at the Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo museum.
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James Vick Seedsman, Compliments of the Season (1891), Rochester, NY, United States. The popolar nursery rhyme/song, Mary Had A Little Lamb was published in 1830, but not originally written in more »
The fascinating art of paper engineering is the focus of a new exhibit that is on display in the Libraries’ gallery at the National Museum of American History, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop, and Turn.
For some, the new school year has already begun. For others, it will soon be here.
Textile Novelties, a trade catalog by J. B. Patterson & Co., gives us a look into 1892 and the styles of school bags over one hundred years ago . . .
Buist Seed Company, Buist's Garden Guide and Almanac, 1896. August is National Golf Month. The Libraries has a great quantity of seed catalogs in its trade literature collection, which tell more »
Martin Luther King, Jr., Gracie Mansion, Rev. Martin Luther King press conference / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico. 1964 July 30. Source: Library of Congress Prints and more »
. . . walking . . . and riding and posing . . . Muellers Stockmen's Supplies Catalog, from the Libraries' trade literature collection, features a full array of gear more »