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Brown GoldBuild and Access the Collection – $300 Brown Gold traces the development of African American children’s literature from the 1870s to the 2000s. The book includes literary criticism and pedagogy, as well as literary history and cultural analysis. The author discusses the use and impact of racial terms such as Afro, Negro, African...Read More |
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Burkart's Sammlung der Wichtigsten Europäischen Nutzhölzer in Characterischen SchnittenBuild and Access the Collection – $3,000 Burkart's Sammlung contains a brief text on European species of trees, including pines, firs, yews, oaks, willows, fruit woods, and others, but its glory is the 40 plates one per species consisting of actual wood samples in thin transverse, radial, and tangential cross-sections, held between...Read More |
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Butterfly images from National Zoological Park Photographs, circa 1955–2005Build and Access the Collection – $300 Images from this collection document the National Zoological Park (NZP) zoo and its animals, veterinary care, staff, exhibits, facilities, events, and research. The majority of images were taken by staff such as Jessie Cohen, NZP's official staff photographer from 1979 through 2009. Materials...Read More |
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The Cabinet of Natural HistoryPreserve for the Future – $950 Botanicals and books on zoology, insect, and marine life are important sources for design and ornament; coloration and patterns from the natural world inspire artists and designers in many ways. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library has a great collection of these resources...Read More |
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The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural SportsPreserve for the Future – $850 Botanicals and books on zoology, insect and marine life are important sources for design and ornament as coloration and patterns from the natural world inspire artists and designers in many ways. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library has a great collection of such resources available for...Read More |
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Catalog and Self-Guided Walking Tour Itinerary of Immovable Objects IBuild and Access the Collection – $600 Immovable Objects I was the first of a series of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exhibitions to showcase architecture and urban design beyond the walls of its home at the Carnegie Mansion on East 91st Street. Project director Dorothy Twining Globus and museum director Lisa Taylor produced...Read More |
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Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by American Negro ArtistsBuild and Access the Collection – $950 The American Negro Artists show (1929 and 1930) was part of a traveling exhibition of African American art sponsored by the Harmon Foundation and the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) staged in the Smithsonian’s National Museum building (known today as the Arts and Industries Building). Most of the...Read More |
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Catalogue de la Collection Archéologique Provenant des Fouilles et ExplorationsBuild and Access the Collection – $2,750 This rare catalogue of an exhibition in Paris in 1883 – held by only six libraries in the U.S. – provides descriptions and brief historical explanations of 102 antiquities from Mexico and the Yucatan that famed French archaeologist Désiré Charnay (1828-1915) acquired during an expedition of...Read More |
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Catalogue d'une tres-belle collection des objets de troise regnes de la nature...Build and Access the Collection – $5,500 This is the auction catalogue of one of the most impressive private collections of natural-history specimens ever formed. Pasquay (1719-77) was a physician in Frankfurt and privy councilor of Anhalt-Dessau; he formed the collection over many years, assembling more than 9000 specimens of minerals,...Read More |
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Catalogus Variorum Exoticorum Rarissimorum Maximam Partem Incognitorum et Nullibi...Build and Access the Collection – $3,160 This is an extremely rare catalogue of a private natural-history collection in the early 18th century, not held by any other library in North America. Abraham Vater (1684-1751) was a German physician and professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Wittenberg. In that connection he also...Read More |
