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 »
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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 »
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale
Ever wonder what a wedding in the past might have been like? Art and Decoration in Crepe and Tissue Paper by Dennison Manufacturing Co. gives us a view into 1917 more »
Ever wonder about luggage from over a hundred years ago? Included in the Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History Library are luggage-related catalogs. One of these more »