Balkan, Debra Bricker. After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest. Des Moines, IA: Des Moines Art Center, 2009. The decades after the stock market crash of 1929 were critical more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
In honor of Columbus Day and October being National Clock Month, the Libraries would like to share some images from this interesting catalog, which features watches and watch factories from more »
The Libraries was represented at this year’s Autumn Conservation Festival at the National Zoo’s Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, Virginia. It is the only time each year more »
Miranda Metcalf is the new intern from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art / National Portrait Gallery Library. Miranda recently graduated from the University of Washington in more »
I am attending a meeting of ICOMOS the International Council on Monuments and Sites on the island of Malta. The meeting consists of a Scientific Symposium on the topic of more »
The invention of the telephone has a fraught and complicated history, but in spite of legal challenges and controversy, most can comfortably credit Alexander Graham Bell with its creation. On more »