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Card shows green lace; in the center is a boquet of flowers with a note and pencil laying upon it.

Selling Valentines

February 14, 2024

Geyer’s was a great source for everything a stationer needed to know and wanted to sell; that includes cards for Valentine's Day.

Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History

Image of a chart with a line graph dipping up and down and dollar signs

Business Collections Orientation February 28

February 9, 2024

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

Join the Business Section for a short, 30-minute webinar at 1pm on Wednesday, February 28, highlighting collections, with content related to the fashion industry as examples.

Posted in: Lunchtime Lectures and Videos

parade float is designed like a cornucopia with an oversize paper Mache chef with hat and apron standing behind a paper Mache oversize white bull with a garland around its neck. Seven of the float riders dressed in white like a chef but masked wearing and are standing throwing Mardi Gras beads with the crowd n the foreground and background

Carnival Season and the Street Sweepers

February 8, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Mardi Gras is a time of fun, but all that fun means a lot of rubbish to be cleaned up and those street sweeping machines have their own history.

Posted in: Business Reference Guides, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History

Image of Capitalsaurus Court street sign with autumn leaves in the background

Washington D.C. has a limited but fascinating history of dinosaurs. The "Capitalsaurus" is a controversial dinosaur, which has been debated over for more than a century. But, why are there so few dinosaurs found in D.C. or on the East Coast generally?

Posted in: History of Science and Technology

Ashley Cuffia being interviewed by Fox News about Brood X 2021 cicadas. The U.S. Capitol is in the background.

Five Questions: Ashley Cuffia, Librarian for Medicine and Life Science

January 20, 2024

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Five questions with the Library's medical and life sciences librarian, Ashley Cuffia.

Posted in: Five Questions

40 Hours, 5 Days

January 17, 2024

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Read about the role the Ford Motor Company played in the drive to the 40-hour work week.

Posted in: Business

Black and white faded photograph of Gloria Hollister with microscope in laboratory taken in 1931

Diving in the Deep with Gloria Hollister

January 2, 2024

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Explore the life and work of naturalist, conservationist, and trailblazer Gloria Hollister Anable (1900-1988) who, in the 1930s, established records for the deepest ocean dives completed by a woman!

Posted in: Women's History

three carrier wearing the uniforms and hats are each loaded down with with packages to be delivered

Visions of Packages Danced in Their Heads

December 19, 2023

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Christmas is a busy season for the Post Office and provides a good opportunity highlight the photo collections related to the mail held by the Library.

Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History