In 1907 Mrs. James W. Pinchot proposed to assemble a collection of arts and crafts for the Smithsonian Institution. To start this endeavor, Mrs. Pinchot and her collector friends loaned or donated ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This elaborate and delicate border ...

A SMALL boy, appearing through the smoke of leaves burning, asked us to help him blow up his football. This was a task we hadn’t performed in some years, but we set about it with a great fuss, ...

Last night I discovered that I had made a mistake in my Minty Frappuccino sweater that could only be rectified by ripping out about four rows and redoing them. The mistake involved too many increases ...