To celebrate the current Smithsonian Libraries exhibition Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, Helena Wright, Curator of Graphic Arts at the National Museum of American History, will present “Book more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
The Art work of Louis C. Tiffany., 1914, "Rose window."
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland. Guide to the Zoological Gardens, Phoenix Park. "The Elephant takes visitors round the Gardens at a charge of 2d. on Week-days, and 1d. on Sundays." more »
H. Wright Smith, "Benjamin Franklin." June 15 is traditionally considered the date of Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite to prove that lightning was electrical in nature. The Libraries has more »
Bess Williamson is completing her Baird Society resident scholar study at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library this week. Bess is a Ph.D student in the History of American Civilization more »
Account number: A000058, A000687, C012359, C016947, Category: Lighting – Chandeliers …The Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library is excited to let you know that almost 30 new large binders of Caldwell photographs have more »
The Libraries can easily feature gorgeous roses to coincide with National Rose Month.—Elizabeth Periale Dingee & Conard Co., Our New Guide to Rose Culture, 1898, "Back Cover." The Dingee and more »