Why ODIN?
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This is a post about the Odin figure on the bronze doors of the John Adams Building.
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Featured Advertisement: Electricity!
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
While doing research I got distracted by this wonderful advertisement published in the New York Tribune on October 5, 1920. It was an advertisement from the New York Edison Company touting the benefits of electricity, mostly for efficiency and safety, for businesses. But what really caught my attention was the hand drawn caricatures, for lack …
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Serpents & Torches
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
The bog post is about a floor detail in the vestibule of the John Adams Building.
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A Lesson from a Founding Father
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
The Earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. When researchers walk into the Science and Business Reading Room, not only are they inspired …
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Pic of the Week: Circa 1973 shelf locations
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Do you want to know where the books at the Library were in 1973?
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Pic of the Week: Temple of Knowledge
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
A beautiful night image of the John Adams Building.
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Pics of the Week: Sequoyah
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
This post is about a door detail of Sequoyah on the bronze door of the John Adams Building.
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Pic of the Week: National Ice Cream Days of the Past
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
In 2010 Jennifer Harbster, my co-blogger, did a post about ice cream that mentioned the beginning of National Ice Cream Month in 1984, but I ran across this advertisement in Chronicling America that ran in the Washington Times on May 26, 1920. This was long before Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month …
Posted in: Advertising, Cookbooks and Food, Pic of the Week
Pic of the Week: Scientific Treasures
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
This week I participated in the Science at Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science meeting hosted by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). During this two-day meeting the Library’s recently-retired manuscript specialist Len Bruno took us on a journey through the scientific treasures of the Library’s Manuscript Division. On display were items …
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