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 »
Category: Trade Literature
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 »
June is Rose Month. This 1899 seed catalog from Peter Henderson & Co., Manual of Everything for the Garden, is also part of the Libraries' Seed Catalogs digital collection. —Elizabeth Periale
The game of tennis as we know it today caught on in the United States in the 1880s: In America in 1874 Mary Ewing Outerbridge, a young socialite, returned from more »
The radio was patented by Guglielmo Marconi n 1896. But the "invention" of radio has its roots in the experiments of many, including Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Michael Faraday, just more »
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale