#smithsonian libraries

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Happy Froggy Friday with Toadlets!

The European common toad (Bufo bufo) in two variations with bonus toadlets! SciArt from Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer, Bd. 1 (1793), edited by Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

But it's a toad! How can it be part of Froggy Friday?! All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. Learn more about the differences, or should I say similarities.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n158_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Icones plantarum selectarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis cum descriptionibus et colendi ratione /. Berolini :[Decker],1820-1828.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35991326

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n380_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum Trenton, N.J. :MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers,1902-1915. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15571197

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I mentioned a while ago that ive been working out at home with random junk including a toolbox, I think I should let you guys know that another of the things i use for weight lifting is a heavy book about the ocean

[garadinervi]

«An image of glass plate MF10322, labeled with star fields and identified variable stars; from Constance D. Boyd's notebook titled "Milky Way Field Comparisons" from 1935. (image: phaedra2579)» – Project PHaEDRA [Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA]

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Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library FOLK MUSIC OF PALESTINE

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Albert Racinet - L’Ornement Polychrome

PLATE III EGYPTIAN ART. JEWELLERY.

"TOMBS,'' says M. Auguste Mariette, "sometimes become historical monuments from the variety of articles placed by the side of the dead. In them are often found the objects which form the groundwork of all collections: amulets, statuettes of the gods, jewels, papyri, etc."

Most of those perfect specimens of Egyptian jewellery which are so invaluable to those engaged in ornamental work have been obtained from the abodes of the dead. The broad and inflexible character of Egyptian design, so often admirably expressed m metal, is especially suited to the work of the lapidary, and we ought to congratulate ourselves on the custom which required that every deacl body should be adorned with at least one necklace.

No. l.-Naos or breastplate of cloisonne enamel, with a tablet below the frieze bearing the name ofRameses II., XIXth Dynasty.-Louvre. No. 2.-Framework of gold, filled in with glass.-Louvre. Both these articles are from the Serapeum of Memphis. (The Serapeum is the mausoleum of A.pis. Thus the god of the Serapeum, that is to say Serapis, is merely A.pis dead.-A.ug. Mariette.) No. 3.-Scarabams of lapis-lazuli with wings of glass beads. (The scarabams, among the Egyptians, was the symbol of immortality.) No. 4.-Necklace from the head of A.pis. Nos. 5, 6, 7 -Bracelets of cloisonne enamel. Nos. 8, 9,-Rings opened out. Nos. 10 to 26.-Ear-rings, necklaces, and amulets. No. 27 .-Sphinx near a stela, composed of the androcephalic lion. (The symbolism of the sphinx has not yet been sufficiently elucidated. According to the Greeks it signified strength, both physical and intellectual.) Nos. 28 to 33,-Jewellery after paintings at Thebes. From the publication of the French Egyptian Commission and 1I. Prisso d'Avesnes. (Monuments egyptiens, 4 vols. folio; Paris, Diclot.)

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Ira L. Hill :: Irene Foote Castle (1893 - 1969), ca. 1920. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Ira L. Hill :: Irene Castle (1893 - 1969), 1910s. Other fashion photos. | src Cornell Library

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StoryWalk® at LPL by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: StoryWalk® on the Patrick Gagnon Memorial Trail through the library gardens features - "We are All Under One Wide Sky" - and runs during World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. Lester Public Library is one of 15 libraries across the United States awarded to host this important exhibit. Learn more about the exhibit here: understandingmigration.org/ Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

[histsciart]

Butterflies, aster, and snakes shown on Plate 10 of Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities, T.1 (1734-65).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

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n57_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Belgique horticole. Liége. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41956586

[skywarpie]

Not to be gay on main but I got a date next week with a person that seems like an exact copy of me. We're both American history majors, want to live in DC and work at the Smithsonian, want to work in the archives at some point.

What the fuck

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The Smithsonian Institution, Eighth Annual Report

"Every city has its library, so has almost every village, and so have a large number of our common schools. Familiar as this fact is to many of us, it presents a new phase of society, and one indicative of mighty influences. The library is the necessary complement of the school. To teach children to read, and then to give them nothing to supply the desire awakened, is mockery."

The Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution gives an account of the operations, expenditures, and the condition of the Institute up to the time of this publication in 1854, as well as the previous annual reports going back to the founding of the Institution and the will of its benefactor, James Smithson.

The report of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Library, Charles C. Jewett, reports the additions to and total numbers of the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Library in 1854. Jewett emphasizes the value of the exchange and donation of material, as opposed to purchasing items. He also reports to the Board the nation-wide need for libraries, and proposes one central, "voluntary yet harmonious" library system.

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents., Smithsonian Institution., United States National Museum. (1965). Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Full text available on HathiTrust

[garadinervi]

Pleadies C18561, Material for Reduction, from Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's notebook titled 'General Ledgers', 1924-1929 (image: phaedra1105) [Project PHaEDRA, Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA]

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Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library PALESTINE LIVES! SONGS FROM THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

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Book 385

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan

Peabody Essex Museum / Smithsonian American Art Museum / Yale University Press 2007

Published to accompany a traveling retrospective of Joseph Cornell’s (1903-1972) work in 2007 and 2008, this book is a beautiful tribute to an artist whose work defies easy categorization. Of the two large-format books I own about Cornell, I would have to give the edge to this one in terms of which is the better book. First off, this one is beautifully bound in full red cloth. Secondly, it offers much more of Cornell’s illuminating source material, some rarer pieces that are not usually reproduced, and even includes some previously unpublished art.