SpymasterinChief George Washingtons Wartime Espionage Current Exhibit … George Washington’s Revolutionary War Account Book, 1775-1783. National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Treasury View in the National Archives Catalog George Washington’s Revolutionary War Account Book, 1775-1783. National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Treasury View in the National Archives Catalog During the Revolutionary War, a large network of colonial spies worked in secret to disrupt British …

National Inventors Day Marjorie S Joyner Past Exhibit … Marjorie S. Joyner and her students from Madame Walker Beauty School, 1925 Courtesy of the Chicago Public Library   Among the first African American women to receive a patent, inventor Marjorie Stewart Joyner had an influential career as a teacher and activist. Born in 1896 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Marjorie Stewart moved to Chicago in 1912. Four years later, she was the first African American to graduate from the A. B. Moler Beauty …

Want to hunt for the Yeti Past Exhibit … Government Regulations for Yeti Expeditions in Nepal On November 30, 1959, the American Embassy in Kathmandu issued this memo outlining the regulations for American mountaineering expeditions in Nepal to search for the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman. Believed by some to reside in the Himalayan Mountains, interest in the Yeti spiked during the 1950s. This prompted the government of Nepal to issue regulations for Yeti-hunting parties. The U.S. State Department’s memo …