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How Artistic Traditions and Natural Materials Combined to Form the Modern Book

Artistry from the Middle East and raw goods traded through European ports both had a profound influence on the style of the modern bound book

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New Exhibit Uncovers the Raw Materials of Rare Books

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Meet the Wildflower Artist Who Was a Smithsonian Champion

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New Comic Honors Civil Rights Singer Bernice Johnson Reagon on Her 80th Birthday

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Learn How We’re Expanding the Smithsonian’s Story on August 31

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The Long Life of a Dead Rhinoceros

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A 19th-Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover

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Turning a Quarantine Into a Journey With Xavier de Maistre

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Conserving and Digitizing the Hewitt Sisters' Diaries

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Exploring the Travel Diaries of Gilded Age Girls Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt

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Here’s Your Chance to Color in Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Collections

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Significant Collection of Arion Press Publications Comes to Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

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Georgia O'Keeffe's Room That Could Have Been

Crimilda Pontes created several designs for the James Smithson Bicentennial in 1965, including what would become the Institution's signature sunburst. (Smithsonian Archives, Acc. 89-024, Box 4., Smithsonian Institution Archives)

The Surprising Story of the Smithsonian Sunburst

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Ascending Pikes Peak in a Locomobile

Saving Time in the Garden in the Early 20th Century

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