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Chocolate Cake Day

Baking Pan catalogue Maybe these cake pans from the Libraries' trade literature collection will inspire something tasty . . . —Elizabeth Periale, delicious looking photograph by Ninette Dean

Mark Your Calendars!

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer present another in a series of speakers to address the Institution on the future more »

Squirrel Appreciation Day

Sciurus volans.  The flying squirrel.  /  Guajacana [Persimmon tree], Mark Catesby.  Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London, 1731-1743 [i.e, 1729-1747]).  Vol.2, pl.76. Mark Catesby spent a total more »