
From bicycling to botany, we're celebrating a few of their faves, all available digitally: https://s.si.edu/3eQDqW7

Bicycling represented freedom and independence for many women in the late 1800s & the book provides practical information and advice: https://s.si.edu/363bWqB

Not a typical book on gardening methods, but a meditation on the garden as place & importance to our well-being. In @BioDivLibrary https://s.si.edu/2yzHqKf

Douglass was known as "The Lion of Anacostia" & the library has a large collection of his work. Author Gregory was a trusted friend: https://s.si.edu/1bCNDAO

Audubon’s second great work after his ‘Birds of America" with a variety of awe-inspiring drawings. In @BioDivLibrary from @DukeLibraries : https://s.si.edu/2x1NnPu

Visual representations of beauty and personality in the late 1700s with mix & match hairstyles: https://s.si.edu/3bB77bY

With so many species on a single plate, it invites the viewer to spend time & study them. Plus - would be amazing wallpaper!: https://s.si.edu/34ZTsbF

The Lafayette Escadrille mission logs give the reader a sense of the unforgiving circumstances of WWI - near constant aircraft engine malfunctions, machine guns jamming: https://s.si.edu/3bznN3k

Merian was a remarkable naturalist, famous for her work in entomology & watercolor illustrations of insects and flowers: https://s.si.edu/2x3mOtf

