The Smithsonian's Freer-Sackler Library features numerous items related to the Tian Yi Ge Library Museum in Ningbo, China, the private library of the Fan family dating back to the early more »
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The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is holding an open house today from 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at its location in Edgewater, MD. It is free and open to the public. more »
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day. Here is a recipe from the Libraries' trade literature collection to whet your appetite…—Elizabeth Periale, ably assisted by Jim Roan & Mike Hardy
May is National Duckling Month.—Elizabeth Periale "Plate 91 – The Pied-bill Dopchick," Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, more »
You can never have too many tulips.—Elizabeth Periale D.M. Ferry & Co., Bulbs and Seeds Autumn 1897, 1897, Back Cover John Lewis Childs, Fall Catalogue of Bulbs that Bloom, 1899, more »
We like to think we have many jewels in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' collections in the figurative sense, but here is a lovely volume bound in precious mother-of-pearl with silver more »
The bicycle is “a money and time saving proposition. It appeals so strongly to the hundreds of thousands of working people who are making practical use of it every day more »