The first US waffle iron was patented in 1869. Since then various companies have manufactured waffle irons. In the Universal Electric Housewares catalog from 1950, Landers, Frary & Clark advertised the more »
Category: History and Culture
Today is National Dog Day. The Libraries features an image from J.H. Walsh's guide of 1860. Walsh was an interesting character and sportsman who used the pseudonym "Stonehenge" for many more »
It’s “Back to School” time! Getting ready for the new year means shopping not only for school supplies but also for the latest in fashions. The trade literature collection at more »
From Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis, Selections from Volume I of The North American Indian, 1907, Facing page 94, "Haschogan-Navaho" Lynne Altstatt, Librarian at the Vine Deloria Jr. Library, National more »
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop in Greenfield village, Dearborn, Michigan, April sixteen, nineteen hundred thirty-eight., 1938?, The photographic print is from more »
How would a Victorian lass keep cool in the dog days of August? Possibly with a summer gown, from The Woman's Book of 1894. This image can be also be more »
…comes this catalog from the Libraries' collections, The New York Coach-Maker's Magazine. Featured here is a physician's phaeton, just one of many state-of-the-art conveyances from this interesting item. Take a more »