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...

Library Workers Association, 1920

In my collection I have Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Journal of The Library Workers Association which is dated May, 1920. The Library Workers Assoc...

Unusual Postcard of Huntington (IN) Public Library

This postcard of the Carnegie Library building in Huntington, Indiana caught my attention for obvious reasons. I haven't seen a postcard...

John Cotton Dana's Tenure in Springfield, MA

    John Cotton Dana ((1856-1929) was one of our profession's greatest librarians and humorists (see previous blog post ). Dana began h...