Dingee & Conard Co., Our New Guide to Rose Culture (1898), West Grove, PA, United States As the dog days of summer begin (or continue, depending on from where you are reading this), more »
Category: History and Culture
Mrs. E. Stevens Tilton, Home Dissertations, 1890, 'Eat at your own table as you would that of a king' said Confucius. July is National Picnic Month—no surprise there. This gay more »
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Inscription on Main Post Office, New York City, adapted more »
Goggles, Pilot, Aleksei Leonov, USSR, National Air and Space Museum, Gift of Aleksei Leonov. Continuing our theme from last week . . . The 1960s were a volatile time around more »
Dennison Manufacturing Co., Framingham, MA. The 1917 Party Book, 1917, pages 6-7, Patriotic table decorations. To get in the spirit we are featuring some patriotic decorations from The 1917 Party Book. more »
The bicycle was patented on this day in 1819. The Libraries has many great images on its Galaxy of Images from the 1912 Pope Manufacturing Company catalog, Columbia Bicycles, but more »
Nanz & Neuner, Inc., Floral Catalogue Illustrated, 1899, Front Cover, also featured in Seed Catalogs. Some more rose-related quotes for this rosy month of June . . . The first more »