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The painting above the fireplace depicts a famous arctic rescue, in which Adolphus Greely's expedition was stranded for over 2 years because supply ships were unable to reach them. Greely and six other survivors were rescued in 1884, and Greely went on to become the first president of the Explorer's Club.
At the Explorer's Club in New York, NY.
Voices for the Library asked the question:
What three words would you use to describe what libraries mean to you?
This is what people said.
Word cloud created at www.wordle.net/
The original hours of operation for the Queen Anne library as posted on a plaque just outside the door.
I have to take antibiotics for a week because of the tooth implant I received yesterday. They make me queasy. Argh, Hard to do much of anything when feeling yucky, but went along for the drive for John to pick up a book at the Waterloo Public Library. I sat in the car & sketched. I never really tuned into the stone eagle above the library's main entryway before. The building was constructed in 1938. Before becoming a library in 1979, it served as a post office and federal building. September 25, 2010
The West Lorne Public Library was formed in 1895 and joined the Elgin County Library Association as a founding member in 1936. This 1890s photograph shows the original Librarian, John Chasely, who served from 1895 until his retirement in 1924.
My library contains evasion, imagination, possibilities, dreams, exotic destinations, mythic characters, history, memories and always beautiful to look at!
Title: Library Reading Room
Date: 1940
Description: Students hard at work in the library reading room, circa 1940.
ID: RS-4-8-H.Library.146-03-01
Copyright 2013, Iowa State University Library, University Archives
For Reproductions: www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html
November 4, 2019 - Avalon Library Grand Re-Opening with County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Janice Hahn, 4th District. Avalon Library, part of LA County Library, is located on the island of Catalina. Photograph by Monica Almeida.
File name: 08_02_005766
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Readville Library
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Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Children; Librarians; Reading
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
The statue of Trim
Trim was a ship's cat that accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801-03.
Trim was born in 1799, aboard HMS Reliance on a voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. The kitten fell overboard, but managed to swim back to the vessel and climb aboard by scaling a rope; taking note of his strong survival instinct and intelligence, Flinders and the crew made him their favourite.
Trim sailed with Flinders on HMS Investigator on his voyage of circumnavigation around the Australian mainland, and survived the shipwreck of the Porpoise on Wreck Reef in 1803. When Flinders was accused of spying and imprisoned by the French in Mauritius on his return voyage to England Trim shared his captivity until his unexplained disappearance, which Flinders attributed to his being stolen and eaten by hungry slaves.
Trim was black, with white paws, chin and chest. He was named after the butler in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, because Flinders considered him to be a faithful and affectionate friend. During his imprisonment Flinders wrote a biographical tribute to Trim in which he described him as 'one of the finest animals I ever saw … [his] robe was a clear jet black, with the exception of his four feet, which seemed to have been dipped in snow and his under lip, which rivaled them in whiteness. He had also a white star on his breast.'
In 1996 a bronze statue of Trim by sculptor John Cornwell was erected on a window ledge of the Mitchell Library in Sydney, directly behind a statue of his owner that was erected following the donation of Flinders' personal papers to the Library by his grandson in 1925. The popularity of the statue has since led to the development of a range of Trim merchandise by the State Library of New South Wales. The Library's cafe is also named after the cat.
The plaque under it says:
Plaque dedicated to Trim
“ TO THE MEMORY OF TRIM
The best and most illustrious of his race
The most affectionate of friends,
faithful of servants,
and best of creatures
He made the tour of the globe, and a voyage to Australia,
which he circumnavigated, and was ever the
delight and pleasure of his fellow voyagers
Written by Matthew Flinders in memory of his cat
Memorial donated by the North Shore Historical Society ”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(cat)
Local Accession Number: 06_11_000867
Title: Public library
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from handwritten text on verso.; Handwritten note on verso: Newburyport.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Libraries
Collection: Stereographs
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Disasters (3) Johnstown flood
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
I guess I can make this shot & the Cinema I & VI a "guess the city" (but don't if you know from me where I visited). Well, it's more of a identify-if-you've-been-there city, kind of hard to guess...
Look at that carpet! Isn't it fantastic. This is from the entrance through to the fiction area. The library courtyard (great in summer) can be seen through the windows. The chair on the left is at the information desk.
See where this photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc/".
AA Gymnastics visited the library again and showed off their moves! At the end of the program kids from the audience got a chance to try out some of the training equipment to flip over backward!
pierre berton resource library / diamond and schmitt architects / vaughan, canada
© 2011 Thomas Lewandovski - All rights reserved. www.lewandovski.com
Booth Library on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on July 1, 2011. (Jay Grabiec)
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Cleveland "Jeffersonian Club" Campaign Ribbon, ca. 1892
Political Party: Democratic
Election Year: 1892
Date Made: ca. 1892
Measurement: Ribbon: 9.25 x 2 1/2 in.; 23.495 x 6.35 cm
Classification: Costume
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/60c2
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.