We checked for candy related catalogs in the Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library and found the Ice Cream and Candy Makers’ Factory Guide. It’s more »
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Vertical files in art museums and libraries are repositories of “ephemera” — things that are not intended to last a long time. Among other things, the ephemera collected in the more »
Just a reminder: the Freer-Sackler Library will be temporarily closing to the public at the beginning of November 2009 through March 2010 for a renovation to increase space for the more »
The Libraries has some spooky items in its collections…beware! From the Commemorative Stamp Collection, The Mummy – Boris Karloff Führer durch Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark, 1929, Cover, "Panther." A. (Arnout) Vosmaer, more »
The French Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1855-1921), poet and aesthete, was an aristocratic descendent of D'Artagnan of Three Musketeers fame and the inspiration of Proust's character Baron de Charlus. On July more »
Acorn clock, about 1849; by the Forestville Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Connecticut. Gift of Albert Adsit Clemons, through George H. Paltridge A special Libraries' thank you to National Museum of American more »