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The Digital Collections Pinterest Board

The Digital Collections has created a Pinterest board on The Met’s Pinterest page.  We have pinned over 100 of the most visually striking items from the Digital Collections, and more pins are going up...

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Miniature Books and Balloon Mania

In 1783, brothers Joseph-Michel (1740-1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745-1799) made history with the debut of the hot air balloon.  After the device’s first manned flight and subsequent public...

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William Loring Andrews, Book Collector and First Met Museum Librarian

In 1878 William Loring Andrews became a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as its first librarian beginning in 1882. Today his portrait hangs in the administrative office of the...

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