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Black and white plate depicting the dining room in the home of editor and publisher Oswald Ottendorfer.
Black and white plate depicting the library in the home of financier and industrial organizer John Pierpont Morgan
Black and white plate depicting the library in the home of lawyer Edward N. Dickerson
Black and white plate depicting the library in the home of philanthropist Frederick Ferris Thompson
Black and white plate depicting the hall in the home of philanthropist Frederick Ferris Thompson
Black and white plate depicting the drawing room in the home of lawyer Edward N. Dickerson
Black and white plate depicting the drawing room in the home of financier and industrial organizer John Pierpont Morgan
The Rose in America
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue…The quintessential flower, symbolizing love and beauty, has been grown for centuries around the world. This book details the effort to popularize roses for the amateur gardener in the U.S. during the early 20th century. McFarland writes about a “dooryard roses," roses adaptable for the U.S. climate. For years, McFarland operated a rose test garden at his home in Breeze Hill, Pennsylvania. This book would have been useful to the homeowner who wanted to try growing roses, describing both the rewards and challenges.
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Smithsonian Libraries has a premiere collection of published works on Native American languages. As Christian missionaries were often the first to make extended contact with native cultures and to devise a written alphabet for the native languages, many of the earliest works take the form of translations of the Bible and other religious texts. Peter Jones (1802-1856) was a mixed-blood chief of the Mississauga Ojibwas in Canada (in the Chippewa/Ojibwa linguistic family) and a Methodist missionary in Ontario.
