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Woodcut image of a teacher giving a lecture to a group of students who sit below his lectern. His cap is painted red. Everything else is black-and-white.

Career Advice from a Concerned Forger

Photograph Guy Davenport Jonathan Williams

Guy Davenport: An Appalachian Polymath

Photograph showing Amelia Earhart sitting in the cockpit of an Electra airplane.

The Sky’s the Limit: Amelia Earhart and the National Woman’s Party

Image of page of text with small blue initial and distinctive pen flourishes in red.

A Time Capsule : What An Early Printed Book Can Teach Us About “Anchoring Innovation”

Red Library of Congress binding on a book from the Smithsonian Deposit. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Binding Two National Libraries: Rare Books from the Smithsonian

Naomi Long Madgett. Pink Ladies in the Afternoon : Poems. Detroit: Lotus Press, 1990. New and enlarged edition.

The Godmother of African American Poetry

portrait of Chester Himes

Chester Himes: Reflections on a Life Shared

Typee by Herman Melville, Armed Services Edition

Hidden Treasures: More Rare Books in the Online Catalog

Woodcut image of a kneeling female dressed in a monastic habit and presenting a book to a crowned old man with a large beard, who is sitting on a throne. Behind him stands a woman with a large crown, who holds a large staff (crozier) in her hand.

The First Known Female Playwright

Detail from mock-up for cover design for Alice Notley's At Night the States.

The George Schneeman Archive