Each month this summer, we are featuring a travel or vacation related item. In June, we featured an 1895 catalog about the Hamburg-American Line express steamers. This month, we are featuring a circa 1896 brochure about a hotel called The Beach House.
Category: Trade Literature
For your picnic, barbecue, or just to drape about the house, here are some patriotic crepe paper decorations for the Fourth of July from Dennison Manufacturing Co.
Summer is here and that means time for summer vacations. So we thought this would be a great time to feature a travel-related item located in the Libraries’ Trade Literature Collection.
Before there were ballpoints … a person could buy steel points for their pen from a catalog like this, each point sporting a fancy name like “Counting House,” “Congressional,” “Aviator,” and “Society Stub.”
Memorial Day is not only the official start of the summer season. It was originally called Decoration Day, with origins dating to Confederate women decorating the graves of their fallen loved ones. It is still a day to remember all the people who have died serving this country.
The Libraries has some great trade catalogs that relate to bicycles.
What do you think of when you hear the words, Kentucky Derby? Hats, maybe? Because the Kentucky Derby is this weekend and since hats are associated with it, we decided to feature a trade catalog focusing on hats.