Alexia MacClain is a Library Technician at the National Museum of American History Library. She began working for Smithsonian Libraries and Archives on the trade literature inventory project in 2005.
The library at the corner of Third Avenue and Fifth Street SE (now the Art Museum), was built in 1905. The new library might be across Greene Square Park from there. The Carnegie foundation donated ...
A late 19th century library supply catalog provides a glimpse into how libraries might have dealt with space issues over a century ago Alexia MacClain It seems as if libraries have always had the ...
Educator and activist Elizabeth Brooks posing with singer and activist Emma Hackley (in spectacles) in five different portraits (1885) (courtesy William Henry Richards Collection, Library of Congress ...
Philadelphia’s popular landmarks tell a story about the city. They serve as a physical embodiment of a familiar history. Independence Hall shows the birth of a nation. The art museum steps remind the ...
As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates. A way of establishing ownership, the little pasted pieces of paper pressed on inside covers evolved into miniature works ...
Like most bookworms, Ann Duprey keeps a pile of books she intends to read at some point. Even her husband jokes about it, saying, " 'You’ll never read these all in your lifetime.' " But the retired ...
From Jan. 23 to Aug. 2, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections presents their first ever educational board games exhibition titled “‘Most Agreeable & Rational Recreation’: Two Centuries of ...
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