Trade catalogs offer a period snapshot into the business, technology, marketing, consumption, and design over the decades. In the collection at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum library, there is a diverse view into the Art Deco era through materials like industrial glass to design components like furniture frames. The trade literature...
–This blog post was contributed by Sara Donovan, summer 2019 intern at the Smithsonian AA/PG Library. Sara is finishing her undergraduate degree in history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and hopes to one day gain a degree in library science.
I recently read a comment that deeply resonated with me: libraries...
By 1800, most Northern States had, or were about to, pass legislation that made slavery illegal. Following the Revolution, freedom of blacks had been a cause with legal cases brought to the courts by individual enslaved persons. There was pressure from the white abolitionist movement to end the slave trade and seek the freedom of those enslaved. In...
