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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Hardware Dealers' Magazine was originally intended for hardware dealers and features ads and articles targeting store owners. Today it is a useful tool for researching the history of retail and hardware stores and the items they sold at the turn of the 20th century.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor
Posted by: Nate Smith
Join the Library of Congress Science Section on Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 2 p.m. (Eastern Time), for a virtual conversation with author, science communicator and past Kluge Chair in Science and Society, Ainissa Ramirez, about her new children’s picture book, “Spark: Jim West’s Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone” (Candlewick Press, 2025).
Posted in: African American History, African Americans, Biography, History of Science and Technology, Inventions, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Science