The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Library boasts more than 10,000 postcards in its “hidden” collection; arranged by subject in card file drawers, they range in date from the turn more »
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The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: The Libraries has received Charles Darwin’s Geological observations on the volcanic more »
Leslie K. Overstreet came to the Libraries in 1980. After eight years in the anthropology and zoology libraries in the National Museum of Natural History she moved to the Special more »
In the spring, the Libraries' Book Conservation Lab was contacted by Lilla Vekerdy and Kirsten van der Veen of the Dibner Library regarding a recent donation. The 1775 book, A more »
Would a fine 19th-century British lady be likely to shriek and swoon onto a fainting-couch upon seeing these images of monstrous-looking insects? Or would she eagerly pick up a paint more »
The Libraries' Cullman Library has acquired some new and interesting items this year. Here we highlight one of them: The Libraries has received Johannes Goedaert’s, Of insects. (York: John White, more »
Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! Dreading the beginning of the school year? School House to White House: the education of the presidents more »