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In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for t...
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FromFold, Pull, Pop & Turn:Yellow Square: a pop-up book for children of all ages. David A. Carter. New York: Little Simon, c.2008. David A...
On my little knowledge I sit,To gauge the depth of my ignorance.Tierno Muhammadu Samba Mombeya, 18th century Fulbe scholar Neene Mariama Djelo Barry (1913-1975): woman from Futa Jalon, Guinea.Source: Kesso Barry. Kesso: princesse Peule...
Oronce Fine, Orontij Finei Delphinatis, 1542 The Dibner Library recently assisted Smithsonian Affiliate museum, theRubin Museum of Art, with selecting items for their upcoming exhibit, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, which will run from December 11 2009 to...
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904, Anemone The Libraries may not be able to go along on a cruise to select specimens, but our collections can help identify them when they return to the Smithsonian...
On September 30th, 2009 the new Public Observatory of Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) opened. Secretary of the Smithsonian, G. ...
O'Connor, Mallory M. and Gary Monroe.Florida's American Heritage River: Images from the St. Johns Region. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009. Once called the "Nile of the Americas" because of its exotic locale and northward flow, the St...
We checked for candy related catalogs in the Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library and found the Ice Cream and Candy Makers’ Factory Guide. It’s a 1907 catalog from the Horizontal Freezer Co. of Chicago, IL. Ac...
Vertical files in art museums and libraries are repositories of “ephemera” -- things that are not intended to last a long time. Am...
From left to right, Vice-Chairman Charles “Beaver” Curo, Councilwoman Beth Glasco, NMAI Librarian Lynne Altstatt, and Chairman Edwin “Thorpe” Romero. O...
Just a reminder: the Freer-Sackler Library will be temporarily closing to the public at the beginning of November 2009 through March 2010 for a renovation to increase space for the Library’s growing collection. ...
The Libraries has some spooky items in its collections...beware! From the Commemorative Stamp Collection, The Mummy - Boris Karloff ...
The French Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1855-1921), poet and aesthete, was an aristocratic descendent ofD'Artagnan of Three Musketeers fame and the inspiration of Proust's character Baron de Charlus.On July 3rd, 1885, at the invitation of Henry James, Montesquiou met the artist James ...
Acorn clock, about 1849; by the Forestville Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Connecticut. Gift of Albert Adsit Clemons, through George H. Paltridge A special Libraries' thank you to National Museum of American History staff members Carlene Stephens and Shari Stout for providing this clock...
