If you have ever visited Washington, D.C., one of the first things you may have noticed is the amount of marble used in the buildings (exterior and interior), monuments, and statues throughout the city. For instance you can find Colorado Yule at the Lincoln Memorial; Cockeysville, Sheffield and Texas marble at the Washington Monument; and […]
We recently hosted students from the Tai Sophia Institute, to whom we exhibited copies of the Library’s 19th– century books on holistic and eclectic medicine, also called Thomsonian medicine. My colleague found some unusal art work within a copy of Samuel Thomson’s A Narrative of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson, which may amuse our readers. Apparently, a […]
This year we are commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Library recently debuted the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, and after spending time looking at those photographs, I thought it would be interesting to write a blog post featuring business-related resources that illuminate the lives of the people living in the […]
There are many events scheduled in Washington DC for Memorial Day. The one I most look forward to is the annual Rolling Thunder’s Ride for Freedom. It is truly moving to witness the tens of thousands of motorcycles that travel from the Pentagon, cross the Memorial Bridge, and end at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. There […]
Yes, this is a picture of a chart and not of something pretty in the Adams Building; but since I love charts and thought this one was fun, I wanted to share it with the readers of Inside Adams. I found it at the same time I found the publication Mida’s Criterion featured in last […]
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month our Pic of the Week features Lee Lawrie’s sculptural relief of the Hindu God Brahma on the bronze doors of the John Adams Building. When we first launched Inside Adams, Donna Scanlon wrote about Our Bronze Doors, which symbolize the history of written word. During my college years, I […]
While hunting for information related to liquor wholesalers in Boston from the late 19th and early 20th century, I was hoping that a trip to the stacks would be helpful. While I didn’t find exactly what I needed, I did find some items that were quite interesting and decided to share one for today’s post. […]
1. What is your background? My background ethnically is Anglo and Pennsylvania (PA) Dutch. I was raised on a PA working farm (Herd Farms), which my siblings and I still own. I attended a one room country school three miles from the farm. When I was seven I began working on the farm and […]
A few weeks ago when I was working late, I looked out of the window from the elevator lobby on the 5th floor of the Adams Building and saw this lovely sunset over the Thomas Jefferson Building. As I stood there admiring it, I was glad I had my digital camera so I could share […]
Our Pic of the Week features one of the walls in the center room of the Science and Business Reading Room that houses the massive National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints set. I bet many of you are asking, “What is the National Union Catalog?” Commonly referred to as the NUC or Mansell (Mansell is the […]