Women on Library Postcards

Library, Washington Normal School, Ellensburg, WA Library, Baptist Missionary Training School, Chicago Guthrie (OK) Carnegie Library I'v...

Books in Chains

Hereford Cathedral Chained Library Books in Chains is the title of a book originally published in London in 1892 that contains the writings...

German POW Camp Libraries in WWI

    I have a special interest in military libraries during wartime. Most of the items in my collection on this topic are about U.S. librarie...

Postcard Depicting Cats in the Library

This delightful postcard has a caption in German which reads "Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual!". This translates in English to ...

Libraries in the Snow on Postcards

 Baker Library, Dartmouth College I t's been a rough winter in many parts of the country this year. I'm sure that a few pictures h...

CA State Library Promotes Law Dept. with Postcard

The California State Library used a picture postcard (see above) to promote its Law Department in the period around the early 1920s. The pos...

For SEX, See the Librarian

If you haven't read Jeanette C. Smith's The Laughing Librarian: A History of American Library Humor (McFarland, 2012), you're m...

50 Years of Working in Libraries

This month marks a significant personal anniversary for me. Fifty years ago this month I took a job at the Nashville (TN) Public Library ( ...

The Chelsea (MA) Public Library and the Fire of 1908

Fitz Library Fitz library on right after fire Carnegie building The Chelsea Public Library in Massachusetts was founded in 1870. A new buil...

Vintage Autos and Libraries on Postcards

I noted in a previous post that horse and buggies add interest to postcards of library buildings. Vintage automobiles do the same thing. Sh...

Early Aurora (IL) Library Workers Identified

L to R: Alice Belleau, Gladys V. Hull, Minnie J. Pooley, Matie K. Quinn, Lillian C. Miles, Kate E. Marshall, and H. Belva Hull My post for J...

Libraries and horse and buggies on postcards

I'm always on the lookout for library postcards with interesting added features. There's nothing like a horse and buggy to add a lit...

Early Portland (OR) Bookmobile Postcard

The predecessor of the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon was the Portland Library Association which was established in 1864. Ori...

Adrian, Michigan's Carnegie Library

Adrian, MI received a grant from Andrew Carnegie for a public library building on Dec. 20, 1904. The initial grant was for $20,000 but was l...

Unidentified Early Women Library Workers

I have two early artifacts (see above) showing images of unidentified women library workers. The first is a photograph of ten women and one ...

People in Libraries on Postcards

Virginia State Library, Richmond School children in Manchester, NH Public Library Reading Room, Boston Public Library Piney Woods School Lib...

Elroy (WI) Public Library and the Ice Storm of 1922

My library postcard collection includes Wisconsin libraries and unusual library postcards. The postcard above showing the impact of the 1922...

Solberg, Woods, and the Library of Congress

Thorvald Solberg (1852-1949) was the nation's first Register of Copyrights in the Library of Congress. He served in that capacity from ...

Carnegie's World War I Libraries

First camp library completed with Carnegie funds  Interior of Camp Johnston, FL Library When the American Library Association assumed a majo...

A Branch and a Bookmobile for African Americans in Carrollton, GA

I recently acquired a postcard (see above) which shows the Delta Sigma Theta bookmobile in front of the King St. Branch Library of of the We...