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Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Today’s post is written by science librarian and culinary specialist Alison Kelly. She has provided her expertise in a number of Inside Adams blog posts related to food history and cooking such as Early American Beer. New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, so this seems like a good time to raise a glass to …
Posted in: Cookbooks and Food, Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A post analyzing the fictional firm from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
A Christmas advertisement from New York Edison.
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The Library of Congress is an amazing and beautiful place to visit, conduct research, and work. When you walk through the doors you are engulfed in history, art, literature, architecture, and mythology. The Library of Congress shop offers visitors keepsakes and mementos from their visit, as well as themed gifts for the bibliophile and history …
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following guest post is by Amber Paranick, a librarian in the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room. Amber collaborated with us before showcasing early U.S. articles related to ice hockey from the Chronicling America database in the post “King of Winter Sports.” The history of the Thanksgiving holiday can be traced back to 1621, …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Every Thanksgiving people stock up on the food and ingredients they will need for their feasts. Because retailers want shoppers, and their goal is to let people know what they have and what deals are to be had, special fliers are run in newspapers and commercials are aired on television. This advertisement from the Rock …
Posted in: Advertising, Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Spiders have been spinning their webs across the planet for hundreds of millions of years. Without a doubt, we have forged a special relationship with these eight-legged wonders. One can find pictographs of spiders on the walls of the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, as well as references to spiders in mythology, creation …
Posted in: Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Zoology
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The following is a guest post authored by Elizabeth Gettins, a Digital Conversion Specialist for the Library’s Rare Book and Special Collections (RBSC). She has worked on multiple RBSC digital collections through the years such as the Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake, the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks and the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana …
Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
August 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, a tremendous engineering endeavor that has played a major role in trade and commerce over its hundred years.
Posted in: Business, Heritage Months, Holidays, and Today in History