Verso

With this post we introduce a new Verso series from Shelley Kresan, one of the rare book catalogers in the Library. She is in the process of cataloging the Anne M. Cranston cookbook collection

Heavy boxes of glass. A portable darkroom. Noxious chemicals. A cumbersome camera. Field photography during the U.S. Civil War was an arduous process far removed from the relatively effortless digital image-snapping of today's pocket-sized cameras and phones.

It's a bird.... It's a plane.... It's orchid pollen? Pollen has been flying at the information desk in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science this past month! Lucky visitors who were in the Conservatory at the right place and at the right time were able to witness

In theory, putting on an art exhibition is a rather formulaic process. You develop a theme, select works, design a layout for the gallery, and then, in the final weeks before opening, the show is installed according to plan.

Green turtle. Jowl with spinach. Coconut cake. Crab à la Mayonnaise. What's on your Thanksgiving menu? If you and yours celebrated the holiday in late 19th-century California, your table might have buckled under the weight of some of these delicacies

Bibliographers seldom get much attention, especially when they choose the literary giant Samuel Johnson as their subject. Scholar O M "Skip" Brack Jr. relished living in the shadow of such greatness, annotating scholarly editions of Johnson's writings

"Maynard L. Parker (1900–1976) built a career making residential spaces look their alluring best," says Jennifer A. Watts on the jacket copy of the new book that she edited about the acclaimed architectural photographer.

Veterans Day, an occasion to honor the nation's servicemen and women, has roots stretching back to the First World War. Yet the desire to commemorate wartime sacrifice has a much longer history.