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Motor King

The theme of this march and two-step celebration of speed and transportation on the ground, water, and air.  Dating from 1910, Motor King is part of the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music, held in the National Air and Space Museum Library. 

Danzas Folklóricas en la Villa de Los Santos

The struggle between good and evil. The battle between the sacred and the profane. These have been recurring themes in all societies and through art, populations were instructed in the principles of Christian religion. Clothing, costumes, music, and dance serve to teach people about the rules to follow as Christians. 

Gather Out of Star-Dust

Gather out of Star-Dust: A Harlem Renaissance Album is a tribute to the Harlem Renaissance, a period of tremendous artistic and cultural achievement among African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, with New York City's Harlem neighborhood at its epicenter. The book is also based on a current exhibit of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University.

Ailey Spirit

Ailey Spirit is a reflection of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s amazing journey as it has progressed from “a small group of young, African-American dancers traveling the country in a station wagon, to what we now respect as one of the best modern dance companies in the world.”  Photographs from an array of

Eggs: Facts and Fancies About Them

Anna Barrows, a pioneer in home economics education, compiled this small book of recipes, superstitions and legends, medicinal uses, and other cultural associations of the egg.  Her goal was to promote the use and expand the production of eggs.  This little book is full of tidbits of information about the egg and its presence in human history: from tips on ways to use eggs in daily life - though maybe scientifically suspect these days (“The whole of a raw egg…rubbed into the hair occasionally to stimulate its growth and prevent falling off”), to the chemical properties of eggs used in manuf

Garden Scene With Dancers

A peep show, (or tunnel book), designed by engraver and print-seller Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg, Germany (1684-1756). The set includes six 6" x 8" hand-colored etched prints on light gray laid paper, with sections carefully cut out to create a perspective view when the prints are arranged in a viewing box.