Dennison Manufacturing Co., 1917 Party Book, 1917, holiday party goods; Bird Cage Costume and Flower Masks "The dress illustrated is from a Vogue design and has been reproduced over and more »
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Today we celebrate Albert Einstein, discoverer of the photoelectric effect for which he received the Nobel Prize, but even better known for his theory of relativity. Einstein was born on more »
Samuel P. Langley, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, began his experiments with flight by designing models powered by rubber bands. He went on to almost beat the Wright Brothers more »
The Lovett Co., Lovett's Guide (1898), Little Silver, NJ The Libraries' trade literature collection is a resource that tells us about commerce in this country, but it is also a more »
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, Via Appia, left side of two page spread William Shakespeare had a soothsayer utter that immortal warning to the Roman Emperor in his more »
Image via Wikipedia . . . so staff at the National Museum of American History Library searched the collections and located a book entitled 50 Years: A Foundation for the more »