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 »
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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 »
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale
For National Garden Month . . . The young lady seems to have made quite a haul. Flowers, melons, cabbage and possibly some record-setting eggplant and tomatoes! From Buist Seed Company, Buist's more »
Parker and Wood, Seeds, Plants, and Bulbs, 1892, Back Cover Everything is flowering, there are still a few cherry blossoms to see, so I might as well wisp downtown to more »
An image from a 1901 seed catalog back cover, featuring some Bronze Turkeys with "1/4 wild blood." These images are also part of the Libraries online exhibition, Seed Catalogs. Happy Thanksgiving more »