Is it possible to have too many cat images in one's blog? Not when they're as wonderful as this one! The frantic feline (left) is an illustration of "Phoenix's Feline more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
The bicycle was patented on this day in 1819. The Libraries has many great images on its Galaxy of Images from the 1912 Pope Manufacturing Company catalog, Columbia Bicycles, but more »
Nanz & Neuner, Inc., Floral Catalogue Illustrated, 1899, Front Cover, also featured in Seed Catalogs. Some more rose-related quotes for this rosy month of June . . . The first more »
At the start of 1962 the United States seemed to be in danger of losing the Space Race to the Soviet Union. While we had managed to launch two astronauts more »
National Cash Register, Annual Report, The National Cash Register Company, 1953, Computers ready for test and inspection at Computer Research factory Alan Mathison Turing was born on this day, June more »
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate opp. p. 182, plate 15, Library reading chairs Yesterday's post, featuring lovely summery damsels was also from more »
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics, 1809-1815, 1810, Plate 24, "Evening promenade, or sea beach costumes" These young ladies look ready to brave the hot, sandy more »