#Smithsonian Libraries

[histsciart]

Happy Froggy Friday with Toadlets!

The European common toad (Bufo bufo) in two variations with bonus toadlets! SciArt from Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer, Bd. 1 (1793), edited by Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

But it's a toad! How can it be part of Froggy Friday?! All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads. Learn more about the differences, or should I say similarities.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

#frogs #toads #toadlets #herpetology #amphibians #froggy friday #frog friday #HistSciArt #Biodiversity Heritage Library #smithsonian libraries

[thebotanicalarcade]

n158_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Icones plantarum selectarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis cum descriptionibus et colendi ratione /. Berolini :[Decker],1820-1828.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35991326

#Berlin #Botanischer Garten (Berlin #Germany) #Germany #Plants #Smithsonian Libraries #bhl:page=35991326 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35991326 #Begonia argyrostigma #flickr #begonia #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #houseplant #houseplants #angel wing begonia #cane begonia

[cyprinella]

n380_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Annual report of the New Jersey State Museum Trenton, N.J. :MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers,1902-1915. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15571197

#heterandria formosa #least killifish #fish #New Jersey #Natural history #New Jersey State Museum #Periodicals #Smithsonian Libraries #flickr

[spearxwind]

I mentioned a while ago that ive been working out at home with random junk including a toolbox, I think I should let you guys know that another of the things i use for weight lifting is a heavy book about the ocean

#thunderclap #a smithsonian ocean encyclopedia #i have two of them. and I have an even bigger biology book for when I eventually increase weights #ill literally be the 'where do you work out' 'at the library' meme

[garadinervi]

«An image of glass plate MF10322, labeled with star fields and identified variable stars; from Constance D. Boyd's notebook titled "Milky Way Field Comparisons" from 1935. (image: phaedra2579)» – Project PHaEDRA [Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA]

#manuscript #astronomy #notation #visual writing #notebook #constance d. boyd #project phaedra #john g. wolbach library #harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics #1930s

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Playing

Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library FOLK MUSIC OF PALESTINE

#currently playing #Palestine #Palestinian music #Smithsonian Folkways #Ethnic Folkways Library #1951

[rogerriddle]

Albert Racinet - L’Ornement Polychrome

PLATE III EGYPTIAN ART. JEWELLERY.

"TOMBS,'' says M. Auguste Mariette, "sometimes become historical monuments from the variety of articles placed by the side of the dead. In them are often found the objects which form the groundwork of all collections: amulets, statuettes of the gods, jewels, papyri, etc."

Most of those perfect specimens of Egyptian jewellery which are so invaluable to those engaged in ornamental work have been obtained from the abodes of the dead. The broad and inflexible character of Egyptian design, so often admirably expressed m metal, is especially suited to the work of the lapidary, and we ought to congratulate ourselves on the custom which required that every deacl body should be adorned with at least one necklace.

No. l.-Naos or breastplate of cloisonne enamel, with a tablet below the frieze bearing the name ofRameses II., XIXth Dynasty.-Louvre. No. 2.-Framework of gold, filled in with glass.-Louvre. Both these articles are from the Serapeum of Memphis. (The Serapeum is the mausoleum of A.pis. Thus the god of the Serapeum, that is to say Serapis, is merely A.pis dead.-A.ug. Mariette.) No. 3.-Scarabams of lapis-lazuli with wings of glass beads. (The scarabams, among the Egyptians, was the symbol of immortality.) No. 4.-Necklace from the head of A.pis. Nos. 5, 6, 7 -Bracelets of cloisonne enamel. Nos. 8, 9,-Rings opened out. Nos. 10 to 26.-Ear-rings, necklaces, and amulets. No. 27 .-Sphinx near a stela, composed of the androcephalic lion. (The symbolism of the sphinx has not yet been sufficiently elucidated. According to the Greeks it signified strength, both physical and intellectual.) Nos. 28 to 33,-Jewellery after paintings at Thebes. From the publication of the French Egyptian Commission and 1I. Prisso d'Avesnes. (Monuments egyptiens, 4 vols. folio; Paris, Diclot.)

#Albert Racinet #antiquity #ancient history #ancient art #ancient egypt #1800s #1800s art #illustration #art #cultural art #smithsonian #smithsonian library

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Ira L. Hill :: Irene Foote Castle (1893 - 1969), ca. 1920. Gelatin silver print. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Ira L. Hill :: Irene Castle (1893 - 1969), 1910s. Other fashion photos. | src Cornell Library

#Ira L. Hill #irene castle #fashion design #fashion photography #Modefotografie #photographie de mode #headdress #headgear #ira l. hill studio #Ira Lawrence Hill #Ira Hill Studio #Ira Hill #1910s #irene foote #npg #smithsonian #studio photography #fotografía de moda #fotografia di moda #cornell library

[lesterpubliclibrary]

StoryWalk® at LPL by Lester Public Library Via Flickr: StoryWalk® on the Patrick Gagnon Memorial Trail through the library gardens features - "We are All Under One Wide Sky" - and runs during World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. Lester Public Library is one of 15 libraries across the United States awarded to host this important exhibit. Learn more about the exhibit here: understandingmigration.org/ Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

#Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage #Smithsonian ExhibitStoryWalk® #World on the Move #World on the Move: 250 #000 Years of Human Migration #Lester Public LIbrary #libraries and librarians #LPL #Lester Public Library #Two Rivers #WIsconsin #Library #Libraries #libs&libs #Public LIbrary #Public LIbraries #American LIbrary Association #American Anthropological Association #Wisconsin #Wisconsin Libraries #Read #Discover #Connect #Enrich #flickr

[pagansphinx]

Elizabeth Catlett (American/Mexican, 1915-2012) was a culptor and printmaker, known for her depictions of African American women. Ms. Catlett sought to affect social and political change. Her work is a mixture of abstract and figurative in the Modernist tradition, with influence from African and Mexican art traditions

“I have always wanted my art to service black people—to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential.” ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Phillis Wheatley • 1973 • bronze and wood • 21 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 in., Art © Estate of Elizabeth Catlett • Collection of National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.

Political Prisoner • 1971 • Polychromed cedar • Art and Artifacts Division - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Harlem

© 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Sharecropper • printed 1970 • Color linocut on cream Japanese paper • Art Institute of Chicago

Homage to Black Women Poets • 1984 • Mahogany • SCAD Museum of Art - Savanah, Georgia

My right is a future of equality with other Americans • 1947, printed 1989 • lithograph in color

Woman Fixing her Hair • 1993 • Mahogany and opals • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head • 1947 • Terracotta • Whitney Museum of American Art • 10 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 8 3/4in. (27.3 × 16.5 × 22.2 cm)

Singing Head • Elizabeth Catlett • 1980 • black Mexican marble • Smithsonian American Art Museum

#art #sculpture #modern art #activist art #African-American art #linocut #whitney museum #20th century art #smithsonian american art museum #new york public library #scad art museum #the metropolitan museum of art #art history #cultural history

[histsciart]

Butterflies, aster, and snakes shown on Plate 10 of Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities, T.1 (1734-65).

View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives for digitizing.

#Saturday Night Seba #butterflies #snakes #aster #Albertus Seba #bhlib #histsciart #sciart #naturalhistory #biodiversity heritage library #smithsonian libraries

[thebotanicalarcade]

n57_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Belgique horticole. Liége. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41956586

#Botany #Horticulture #Periodicals #Plants #Smithsonian Libraries #bhl:page=41956586 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41956586 #flickr #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #clematis #Clematis Fortunei

[skywarpie]

Not to be gay on main but I got a date next week with a person that seems like an exact copy of me. We're both American history majors, want to live in DC and work at the Smithsonian, want to work in the archives at some point.

What the fuck

#d.ont reblog #im manifesting the library of congress byt Smithsonian is good too

[govpubsfinds]

The Smithsonian Institution, Eighth Annual Report

"Every city has its library, so has almost every village, and so have a large number of our common schools. Familiar as this fact is to many of us, it presents a new phase of society, and one indicative of mighty influences. The library is the necessary complement of the school. To teach children to read, and then to give them nothing to supply the desire awakened, is mockery."

The Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution gives an account of the operations, expenditures, and the condition of the Institute up to the time of this publication in 1854, as well as the previous annual reports going back to the founding of the Institution and the will of its benefactor, James Smithson.

The report of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Library, Charles C. Jewett, reports the additions to and total numbers of the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Library in 1854. Jewett emphasizes the value of the exchange and donation of material, as opposed to purchasing items. He also reports to the Board the nation-wide need for libraries, and proposes one central, "voluntary yet harmonious" library system.

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents., Smithsonian Institution., United States National Museum. (1965). Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Full text available on HathiTrust

#govpubs #1850s #1854 #Smithsonian #Library #science #museum #Charles Jewett #Joseph Henry #Linn Boyd #Roger Taney #James Smithson

[garadinervi]

Pleadies C18561, Material for Reduction, from Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's notebook titled 'General Ledgers', 1924-1929 (image: phaedra1105) [Project PHaEDRA, Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA]

#manuscript #astronomy #astrophysics #notation #notebook #cecilia payne gaposchkin #project phaedra #john g. wolbach library #harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics #1920s

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Playing

Smithsonian Ethnic Folkways Library PALESTINE LIVES! SONGS FROM THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE

#currently playing #Palestine #Palestinian music #Smithsonian Folkways #Ethnic Folkways Library #1972 #Six Days War