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Did You Know the Smithsonian Has an Extremely Rare Bejeweled Book Covered in Amethysts?

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Meet Author, Suffragist, and Minister Phebe Hanaford

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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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A 19th-Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover

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Tracing Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall Through Smithsonian Collections

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Explore Book Collecting With the Curators of 'Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect'

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Intriguing Items from the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ Adopt-a-Book Program

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New Video Series Highlights Book Conservation Treatments

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Celebrate National Library Week with Virtual Meeting Backgrounds

Portrait of Graceanna Lewis, The Underground Rail Road (1872). (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Who was Graceanna Lewis, Naturalist and Abolitionist?

Portrait of Frances E.W. Harper (detail), Frontispiece, Poems, 1900. (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Poetry towards Progress: Frances E. W. Harper

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