Alexander Lawrie (born New York, NY, 1828; died Lafayette, IN, 1917) Alexander Lawrie, son of a Scottish immigrant, started his artistic career by apprenticing as a wood engraver at the more »
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North American Wild Flowers, Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, Plate 336: flower The Fossil Record, a newsletter put out by the Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology, includes more »
Check out these new acquisitions at the National Museum of American History Library! United States. Navy Dept., Reports of explorations and surveys… of a ship-canal between the Atlantic and Pacific more »
The Lovett Co., Lovett's Guide, 1898, Back Cover If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.—Dean Martin Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the more »
While recently wandering through the twisting halls of the National Museum of American History, my colleagues and I bumped into a young researcher at the Libraries' American History Library. Joseph more »
2009 is the centennial year of the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossil in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. In 1909, Charles Walcott—the fourth secretary of the more »
On June 26 twenty-three Catholic University of America (CUA) library program students and two instructors, Diane Schnuurpusch and Michele Masias, came to the National Museum of American History and the more »