Classification: Broadcast Abstract: Telecast aired at 12:30 on 10/8/74 on local independent station; per Washington Post TV listings for that day, gueses were Joseph Hirshhorn, Abram Lerner, S. Dillon Ripley, Nancy Hanks, David Lloyd Kreeger, Jouette Shouse, Grace Rarnecke. (Two Reels) Identifier: 74-110 There is currently no digital media for this item.| Smithsonian Libraries
Classification: Interviews Abstract: October 1974 audio tape of a 1974 Voice of America interview of Abram Lerner by Betty Ustun. Label on reads: "Betty Ustun interview (VOA) with Abram Lerner, Oct. 74." There is currently no digitized audio for this item.| Smithsonian Libraries
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries sealed the 40thanniversary celebratory year by hosting a black-tie “Paint the Town REaD!” Ruby Gala at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture on October 30, 2008. The event took place in the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, situated between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. It was attended by 250 SIL staff, guests and friends. Secretary G.| Smithsonian Libraries
On December 9, 2008, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries displayed a new exhibition titled the Art of African Exploration, which showcases the Russell E. Train Africana Collection, a collection rich in visual materials.| Smithsonian Libraries
Botanica Magnifica is a five-volume, double elephant folio that holds 250 detailed shots of rare flowers. Most of the vibrantly-colored photographs were taken in the Smithsonian Department of Botany Research Greenhouses, located in Suitland, Md. Singer donated this unique copy of Botanica Magnifica to the Cullman Library in May of 2008.| Smithsonian Libraries
February 10, 2009 marked the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology reopening celebration. This rare books library was closed for over two years as part of the National Museum of American History renovation. Close to 100 Smithsonian staff from around the Institution stopped by to join in the festivities and meet the Libraries new Head of Special Collections, Lilla Vekerdy.| Smithsonian Libraries
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries hosted a two-day symposium titled “The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion in the 17th-19th Centuries” March 4 and 5 in the National Museum of American History. This celebration marked the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, one of the Libraries’ two facilities for rare books and manuscripts, the Dibner Library lectures and the Resident Scholar program.| Smithsonian Libraries
On June 10, 2009, around 70 guests gathered for “Afternoon Tea with Audubon,” an event celebrating the gift of a double-elephant folio facsimile of John J. Audubon’s Birds of America to the Libraries. This impressive and valuable work, published by Robert E. Abrams of Abbeville Press and donated by Jonathan Singer, resides in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History in the National Museum of Natural History.| Smithsonian Libraries
To celebrate the Smithsonian Libraries exhibition Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration, SIL hosted “Book Illustration and Visual Culture,” a lecture and reception on June 24, 2009 in the| library.si.edu
On June 14, the Smithsonian Libraries hosted a reception celebrating the opening of “Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn,” our ongoing exhibition in the Libraries’ gallery located in the| library.si.edu
Search for items, companies, or keywords in our Trade Literature Inventories The Trade Literature Collection—the catalogs and publications that were once part of the merchandising of| library.si.edu