The Smithsonian is celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage during the month of May with films, performances, talks, tours, and family programs. The Libraries would also like to highlight some images more »
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Nicole Halpern has recently joined the Libraries for a two-month internship. A sophomore at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Halpern is working both with the Special Collections and Digital Services more »
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.Bake me a cake as fast as you can;Pat it and prick it and mark it with B,Put it in the oven for baby and me. Walter more »
In 1839 Haswell Barrington And Haswell of Philadelphia published The conchologist’s first book: a system of testaceous malacology, arranged expressly for the use of schools, in which the animals, according more »
recto: Chauncey B. Ives (born Hamden, CT, 1810; died Rome, Italy,1894) verso: Carte-de-visite photography studio: Ferrando Photographic Studio, Rome, Italy Chauncey Ives was one of the most popular American sculptors more »
Moran, Michael F. Striking Change: The Great Artistic Collaboration of Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Atlanta: Whitman, 2008. 432 p. N40.1.S13 M67 2008 Instrumental in creation of the Smithsonian American more »
The Libraries would like to showcase a few images from its Heralds of Science collection today. Many of the titles can be found in this online show or by searching more »