Submitted by Matthew Gengler on
The Ingalls Library contains a vast hidden collection of personal bookplates, uncataloged and unknown. These ex libris reside in the books in the library stacks, evidence of the remarkable provenance of the collection, waiting to be discovered by the curious patron.
Submitted by Marsha Morrow on
At the end of the 19th century, a craze for all things Japanese spread across the Western world.
Submitted by Jane Kirkland on
Welcome to the Ingalls Library Digest, the number one source for news you can use regarding the museum's library and archives.
Submitted by Christine Edmonson on
At the north end of the reference collection, humbly housed in beige cabinets, rest thousands of postcards. These penny postcard images, sent as modern novelties, carry messages of well being and adventure. In this series we follow our intrepid traveler from city to city on a world tour.
Submitted by Leslie Cade on
The story of the brave men and women who worked to rescue Europe’s greatest art treasures during World War II has been brought to the silver screen in The Monuments Men. But did you know that monuments men also served in Japan? When the war ended and the allied occupation of Japan began, civilian monuments men were charged with protecting and preserving Japanese cultural heritage.
