Today's agenda included a field trip to the RISD Nature Lab, a very cool Providence resource that seems to be essentially a laboratory / natural history museum designed for use by artists. It's the kind of

This portrait of McClellan appears in a scrapbook that sets Civil War officers beside a specimen of their handwriting.In this case the portrait is

We have a terrific collection of World War I and II posters in Special Collections. View some examples at the Notes for Bibliophiles blog.

Learn about more new Special Collections additions in two new posts at the Notes for Bibliophiles blog:

A book used by a door-to-door