The Smithsonian's Kite Festival is today. Head on down to the Washington Monument and check it out. You might even see a kite like the one pictured below, from the more »
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bulletinunitedst361889unit_0001Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Libraries Historic publications of the Smithsonian Institution are being scanned as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). There are still gaps in the series as more »
On March 5, Deputy Director Mary Augusta Thomas hosted Turkmenistan visitors Mr. Kerim Atahanov, Deputy Director, State Children's Library, and Mr. Rozyjuma Byashimov, Dean, Libraries and Museums Faculty, Turkmen State more »
Here is a third excerpt from the Libraries' Dibner Library lecture publication, Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity by Joyce E. Chaplin, the James Duncan Phillips Professor more »
Mathematician Tatiana Ehrenfest is one of many scientific portraits to be found in the Libraries' Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Tatiana more »
The Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG) grew out of the Smithsonian’s National Museum, later known as the “National Gallery of Art”. In 1937 the Andrew Mellon more »
Carrie H. Lippincott from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the self-titled “Pioneer Seedswoman of America.” She started a seed business in 1886 out of the necessity of increasing the family income. By more »