In this plate from Benjamin Franklin's, Œuvres de M. Franklin, Docteur des loix . . . , 1773, "Portrait of Benjamin Franklin," the great man looks contemplative as a storm rages more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
One Red Dot: A Pop-Up Book for Children of All Ages, by David A. Carter. New York: Little Simon, 2004. The Libraries opens its new exhibition Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, more »
June is Rose Month. This 1899 seed catalog from Peter Henderson & Co., Manual of Everything for the Garden, is also part of the Libraries' Seed Catalogs digital collection. —Elizabeth Periale
On June 10, 2010, the Biodiversity Heritage Library hit a new milestone with the integration of the BHL content (42,000+ titles, 80,000+ items, 30 million+ pages) into the Europeana digital more »
Ira W. Porter, A report of the delegation from the National Fraternal Congress, 1909?, Model of Sanitary Dairy Last year for National Dairy Month the Libraries featured a cream separator more »
During the run of the exhibition, Paper Engineering, Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn, the Libraries will be cross-posting on this and the Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn blogs . . more »
During the run of the exhibition, Paper Engineering, Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn, the Libraries will be cross-posting on this and the Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn blogs . . more »