Hammond Typewriter and Card Cataloger

A typewriter story on the 50th anniversary of the IBM Selectric Typewriter . When the Harvard College Library decided to make its catalog mo...

Library Book Trucks

Library Bureau Book Truck Gaylord Bros. Book Truck The Library Bureau's Classified Illustrated Catalog of 1886 described the library boo...

Gertrude Bascom Darwin, Librarian General

The elected officer in charge of the Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. has the title of Librarian Gen...

The Inside Inn and ALA in St. Louis, 1904

On the surface an envelope I purchased at a recent stamp show has no apparent connection to libraries. Philatelist would refer to the envelo...