tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11963880637684433792024-03-12T23:55:41.638-07:00Library History Buff BlogPromoting the appreciation, enjoyment, and preservation of our library heritageLarry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.comBlogger731125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-3696395586196910412022-12-12T10:27:00.000-08:002022-12-12T10:27:29.653-08:00Library Postcards for the Holidays<p>As a collector of postcards featuring libraries, I seek out those that are less typical. Few are less typical than those that have a winter holiday theme. Here are a few in my collection. </p><p>What is the Santa on this 1910 postcard featuring the Cossett Library in Memphis, TN thinking?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujGoUGBwOXtyksOK_GrJicjZ6EMLCUay-PmAWBzDhdWX6EVoURrSNB3UXvI7_XRV7cIUiHd8xsN3hCwSTe3010WMdj2eyZN_oBFQeO259CBg3KR6-SCajCBL6IerHjDWyoyi5YRW8h3SbSWP9yDL_7yaR1S2MeaTDMDrgfbS2BOfZx48DBwD9vBMVwA/s550/pc-holiday-tn-memphis-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="550" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujGoUGBwOXtyksOK_GrJicjZ6EMLCUay-PmAWBzDhdWX6EVoURrSNB3UXvI7_XRV7cIUiHd8xsN3hCwSTe3010WMdj2eyZN_oBFQeO259CBg3KR6-SCajCBL6IerHjDWyoyi5YRW8h3SbSWP9yDL_7yaR1S2MeaTDMDrgfbS2BOfZx48DBwD9vBMVwA/s320/pc-holiday-tn-memphis-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This postcard featuring the Santa Rosa, CA public library was mailed on Dec. 24th, 1909. It was published by Richard Behrendt of San Francisco. I have several of Behrendt's California library holiday cards.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizr-Dcqq-eVALfdwoDWgX920IDypcyQG1GUBi0esT2eAfwO43BYXO4qkpHMjsK0Ulm1xPaiPii2U3Oot06obou27qb1tF1HxJidjLTcdH0MMUAU9UsmZJFuTTqSGpAC11MeRP7pbQVnEBM6ep_uW9qHLxnXu0AjmvB7XrIankcEcmOOB1r4ikDiXkq3g/s550/pc-holiday-ca-santarosa-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizr-Dcqq-eVALfdwoDWgX920IDypcyQG1GUBi0esT2eAfwO43BYXO4qkpHMjsK0Ulm1xPaiPii2U3Oot06obou27qb1tF1HxJidjLTcdH0MMUAU9UsmZJFuTTqSGpAC11MeRP7pbQVnEBM6ep_uW9qHLxnXu0AjmvB7XrIankcEcmOOB1r4ikDiXkq3g/s320/pc-holiday-ca-santarosa-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This postcard was mailed on Dec. 24th, 1920 and features the George Maxwell Memorial Library in Rockville, CT.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-Lm3SlBh_y3KHqitsTS_JsWgyQbYeG_rHsx4D4No05tAOmdbavWK-zzKNUb_vCBfyatRcHIsWeGHAfGMw7u1pJCkuxnfph6HE-AIotoPzKWIn_nnKfOgeeh-ZXYKroFrTA36UCvCO1-yHk35s0MaVZBL1pm3i9dgOvjA-r1cPaLdWqqTaGTAEwfaZA/s550/pc-holiday-ct-rockville-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="550" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-Lm3SlBh_y3KHqitsTS_JsWgyQbYeG_rHsx4D4No05tAOmdbavWK-zzKNUb_vCBfyatRcHIsWeGHAfGMw7u1pJCkuxnfph6HE-AIotoPzKWIn_nnKfOgeeh-ZXYKroFrTA36UCvCO1-yHk35s0MaVZBL1pm3i9dgOvjA-r1cPaLdWqqTaGTAEwfaZA/s320/pc-holiday-ct-rockville-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This multi-view postcard for Boise, ID was probably enclosed in an envelope when it was mailed in 1909 since it has a message but no stamp. It includes an image of the Carnegie Library.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9L1nxFyHyhhHCLfC7CyvhSI5B6IEkDvp2suut9eQYIMtmu5ie2QW_a-kB02c2Z9IrmiVNuUGbJdcfwNzHyMZIU07zljlrPYpx1uaLNfJ99Uel_VpipnMQpYuVFvHHkTCfeHe8YixWvaI4ESvDPenV9d7dYwddCECeZ2Lq-EuYPElPNfVhm7tu3bWv_Q/s550/pc-holiday-id-boise-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9L1nxFyHyhhHCLfC7CyvhSI5B6IEkDvp2suut9eQYIMtmu5ie2QW_a-kB02c2Z9IrmiVNuUGbJdcfwNzHyMZIU07zljlrPYpx1uaLNfJ99Uel_VpipnMQpYuVFvHHkTCfeHe8YixWvaI4ESvDPenV9d7dYwddCECeZ2Lq-EuYPElPNfVhm7tu3bWv_Q/s320/pc-holiday-id-boise-100.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p>Robert H. Lord of Boston, MA published postcards with original messages and illustrations. This one was mailed on Dec. 18, 19ll from Molin, IL and has a message about public libraries.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDew16vr70wUFNScZEQCtK2eYae8U9GzgIBQd8_y39h8S-cSR06PMFVYut0hTrwRe_OOWR-KWLmTHtHH3hO_VhKTRk4LuFXoTsW-_VWJ7IgBtOJ2aCLB9sjocVFgjLZfiVmjjfGrVQ9rjbJ2pLjSfc7zFa4KWF_2SMyk6EMzOfLMeeoagv649RSQ8cg/s550/xmas-quotation-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDew16vr70wUFNScZEQCtK2eYae8U9GzgIBQd8_y39h8S-cSR06PMFVYut0hTrwRe_OOWR-KWLmTHtHH3hO_VhKTRk4LuFXoTsW-_VWJ7IgBtOJ2aCLB9sjocVFgjLZfiVmjjfGrVQ9rjbJ2pLjSfc7zFa4KWF_2SMyk6EMzOfLMeeoagv649RSQ8cg/s320/xmas-quotation-100.jpg" width="182" /></a></div><p>A dramatic postcard featuring an angel and the Binghamton, NY public library. It was not mailed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhookb-aENvFmj4L84sD_rXNFPXafFS5CU2MRPAUwtWG7A2uQZUVcLuMQ13vflcNx4_4q_B5KY8V2vbeFQI37qcY8JC_x7Pc_9oJW8gYmzu3nP7FhplPzKdPpKJJI6Ti_IY7RQ3wM1GnoeZcnp-skKFlrK06uvrYVYuJRMeWGZmsfv8KxxM2ERoJjTGQ/s550/pc-ny-binghamton-xmas-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="352" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhookb-aENvFmj4L84sD_rXNFPXafFS5CU2MRPAUwtWG7A2uQZUVcLuMQ13vflcNx4_4q_B5KY8V2vbeFQI37qcY8JC_x7Pc_9oJW8gYmzu3nP7FhplPzKdPpKJJI6Ti_IY7RQ3wM1GnoeZcnp-skKFlrK06uvrYVYuJRMeWGZmsfv8KxxM2ERoJjTGQ/s320/pc-ny-binghamton-xmas-100.jpg" width="205" /></a></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-65602211310869932242022-11-01T09:35:00.000-07:002022-11-01T09:35:53.372-07:00Happy 125th Anniversary Book Palace of the American People<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx1UY0VeW4Vw62oS-qTZgZBeM8RT4mbsiOP2x07IPB9Fw7sKWOgXrxSfpVDJcJo29laSAAr-1lqo4bmQdTR20MqtrjVKXzHw8vniJh1r4UXoXrTHdqzQ5zZzKrqiYl-c-qMUzyFLWD4v8AWiWZyyVtehVMztpNVywYI_5e_V5rBWp2VRVCY7_xImg6PQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="396" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgx1UY0VeW4Vw62oS-qTZgZBeM8RT4mbsiOP2x07IPB9Fw7sKWOgXrxSfpVDJcJo29laSAAr-1lqo4bmQdTR20MqtrjVKXzHw8vniJh1r4UXoXrTHdqzQ5zZzKrqiYl-c-qMUzyFLWD4v8AWiWZyyVtehVMztpNVywYI_5e_V5rBWp2VRVCY7_xImg6PQ=w386-h274" width="386" /></a></div><br />On November 1, 1897 the new Library of Congress building opened to the public. Ainsworth Rand Spofford, the sixth Librarian of Congress who was largely responsible for getting the building built, referred to it as the "Book Palace of the American People". Some even claimed that it was "The World's Most Beautiful Building". The building was renamed the Thomas Jefferson Building in 1980. IMHO it should have been named the Ainsworth Rand Spofford Building. I am a collector of a wide variety of artifacts that feature the 1897 building. One of the indicators of the beauty and importance of the building is the number of picture postcards that feature the exterior and interior of the building. On a recent search of eBay there were over 2,000 Library of Congress postcards listed which is more than any other library. I have over 150 in my personal collection of library postcards. There are also a large number of other souvenir items that feature the building. The history of the Library of Congress building coincides very well with the history of picture postcards. There are excellent examples of Library of Congress postcards for every postcard era. Here are a few from my collection.<div><br /></div><div><div>PIONEER ERA (1873-1898)</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">1894 U.S. Post Office issue postal card. Mailed to Freiburg, Germany on Nov. 7, 1897, only 6 days after Library of Congress building opened to the public.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDeM4dYNJCX6efOT01IvSn5FKGXXcDZZaQZKW_Rpn2sWKb0_Kn9oefwXp9awkR62brXj8p6_yL4pI4NS5Uq2RMwi5joaE7UQ9F6HET6nIHp5dDj55vZbgcxyILMOEX7Z63qqAd4uK5SXapAfPD13O7q_qQg64-lD5We5jtO09iySeECEOGo_oTLdysQ/s549/pc-loc-pioneer-card-picture-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="549" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDeM4dYNJCX6efOT01IvSn5FKGXXcDZZaQZKW_Rpn2sWKb0_Kn9oefwXp9awkR62brXj8p6_yL4pI4NS5Uq2RMwi5joaE7UQ9F6HET6nIHp5dDj55vZbgcxyILMOEX7Z63qqAd4uK5SXapAfPD13O7q_qQg64-lD5We5jtO09iySeECEOGo_oTLdysQ/s320/pc-loc-pioneer-card-picture-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgBWBsGTQczgWt-gjQo-CNG6eastyGGZvFYZauL5f3jXnHkHkBw24h5UUeh2PnSytSUh63AHkkyrwYnsjYlsl0uBywe78AGsSgb_TrewOb_PM7SY4hQEMKoOkDX87t8Jl1EXQ7LYgg1zOMtfi4Pf9urJYJTbjf9fbPIA_VEqtlmD6cQjMnZD_amyXjA/s549/pc-loc-pioneer-card-100.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="549" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgBWBsGTQczgWt-gjQo-CNG6eastyGGZvFYZauL5f3jXnHkHkBw24h5UUeh2PnSytSUh63AHkkyrwYnsjYlsl0uBywe78AGsSgb_TrewOb_PM7SY4hQEMKoOkDX87t8Jl1EXQ7LYgg1zOMtfi4Pf9urJYJTbjf9fbPIA_VEqtlmD6cQjMnZD_amyXjA/s320/pc-loc-pioneer-card-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>PRIVATE MAILING CARD ERA (1898-1901)</div><div><br /></div><div>Mailed via the S.S. Kronprinz Wilhelm to Floha, Sachsen, Germany on April 5, 1902 just 7 months after its maiden voyage.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2c_A0p9Gh4p_fSKAGV0wVCsREt1cY7rxSMjlGQyNUB_z71Q4mwx4YvfQkWR34qf5N5pFblruwyYgQRHnOUpEqKCplDqGpjRPXfP2II8nv6DctFAO1dbNhqOoQCm18onezt14L4relWZ-HPUy4FJ0eiCU50tms9polqwIGizeZ4SveEFDjsVSXv1zWwg/s549/pc-loc-germany-1902-front-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="549" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2c_A0p9Gh4p_fSKAGV0wVCsREt1cY7rxSMjlGQyNUB_z71Q4mwx4YvfQkWR34qf5N5pFblruwyYgQRHnOUpEqKCplDqGpjRPXfP2II8nv6DctFAO1dbNhqOoQCm18onezt14L4relWZ-HPUy4FJ0eiCU50tms9polqwIGizeZ4SveEFDjsVSXv1zWwg/s320/pc-loc-germany-1902-front-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHp704tKvBve74GAgnejawFykc2GTNdBH5-lIMeO-ki5PGDyMIDQQpip60k7pesWLiQ9G8-fegHXQzJ2oCZyrhh4G8qQ2izmVNpYeHBYgPg7cuBvecKOv6fppsqSV_daLxarEnza1O47lNf322sNjtAH6YabcRufVW6C7TOGr2slrnp4achRNpKKQqGg/s554/pc-loc-germany-1902-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="554" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHp704tKvBve74GAgnejawFykc2GTNdBH5-lIMeO-ki5PGDyMIDQQpip60k7pesWLiQ9G8-fegHXQzJ2oCZyrhh4G8qQ2izmVNpYeHBYgPg7cuBvecKOv6fppsqSV_daLxarEnza1O47lNf322sNjtAH6YabcRufVW6C7TOGr2slrnp4achRNpKKQqGg/s320/pc-loc-germany-1902-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>UNDIVIDED BACK / POST CARD ERA (1901-1907) </div><div><br /></div><div>Washington, DC to Hagerstown, MD, Sept. 27, 1906.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94JB5GXZZCQhzVF-CDTC3GW9FeJYzsm_Tidz8uF31GqDOR6urK5-X44bmnEChDmhI7o-phBim8RI4CnJc3q5454kybeqpgBZvU-9hjmHRUnxgxirZYn9R6p-x6xLwReUbREaIaGLsxfsJ0YNY-nRlLCESbOtjFkEa2cbSzAXjIARRbp32jJb7e4MUJw/s540/pc-loc-1906-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="540" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94JB5GXZZCQhzVF-CDTC3GW9FeJYzsm_Tidz8uF31GqDOR6urK5-X44bmnEChDmhI7o-phBim8RI4CnJc3q5454kybeqpgBZvU-9hjmHRUnxgxirZYn9R6p-x6xLwReUbREaIaGLsxfsJ0YNY-nRlLCESbOtjFkEa2cbSzAXjIARRbp32jJb7e4MUJw/s320/pc-loc-1906-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>DIVIDED BACK ERA (1907-1915) GOLDEN AGE OF POSTCARDS</div><div><br /></div><div>Washington, DC to Lyon, France, April 21, 1908. Images of exterior and reading room.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWQwfaMA0UEpICO2SMrqLBqix0QvM32LaxMiKUfmq5PtINo-031KLmnFP3iSV8RUo19FSuRe52lnNfQx-XB1sVxKh_SApR1qVsEWVELvAyiaG2A6FBTA2Nw9kZWeTx72q-dXgBaGdtfyjQaRiAoD9xJECXFj7GHUY4M8TXhu2qBcGlRfvUmNWChjkcQ/s540/pc-loc-butterfly-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="540" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWQwfaMA0UEpICO2SMrqLBqix0QvM32LaxMiKUfmq5PtINo-031KLmnFP3iSV8RUo19FSuRe52lnNfQx-XB1sVxKh_SApR1qVsEWVELvAyiaG2A6FBTA2Nw9kZWeTx72q-dXgBaGdtfyjQaRiAoD9xJECXFj7GHUY4M8TXhu2qBcGlRfvUmNWChjkcQ/s320/pc-loc-butterfly-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkG8Yg7pseve7wNGIDrwS28YoOQu43gSItA04QRLyREPR459qgS5m4O-rJIxMnaJoYhTYJU8thsVE5ocqv7MYuFeevlYKxLDJUN3e56ynKcdaw0cKBdY9sMgVlMpLyUTb4o5ngnAjF24EAplJ6nnOLXjqLI4eFjOUSiqEwDyK7e-7lQCG1va1Z6N3J1g/s540/pc-loc-butterfly-message-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="540" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkG8Yg7pseve7wNGIDrwS28YoOQu43gSItA04QRLyREPR459qgS5m4O-rJIxMnaJoYhTYJU8thsVE5ocqv7MYuFeevlYKxLDJUN3e56ynKcdaw0cKBdY9sMgVlMpLyUTb4o5ngnAjF24EAplJ6nnOLXjqLI4eFjOUSiqEwDyK7e-7lQCG1va1Z6N3J1g/s320/pc-loc-butterfly-message-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>WHITE BORDER ERA (1915-1930)</div><div><br /></div><div>Great Falls, VA to Canton, NJ, Aug. 2, 1929. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fxVph-1coZx9fIweie_InGGyXGtKedc5kaMWvHCjMvxp1an90t3Z4_Oota1h21W8aIBhcy5IYvenm93hx6EDhI2wodPwTf1dreXYzqyr1XFubjPRmgVitWoWonI7EIZ9KacPEyVi41WntBBJIqFQ7Phn-aRbR44XYPyD3VjZXsZl99MMykth3K0xWg/s540/pc-loc-white-border-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="540" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fxVph-1coZx9fIweie_InGGyXGtKedc5kaMWvHCjMvxp1an90t3Z4_Oota1h21W8aIBhcy5IYvenm93hx6EDhI2wodPwTf1dreXYzqyr1XFubjPRmgVitWoWonI7EIZ9KacPEyVi41WntBBJIqFQ7Phn-aRbR44XYPyD3VjZXsZl99MMykth3K0xWg/s320/pc-loc-white-border-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>LINEN ERA (1930-1945)</div><div><br /></div><div>Unmailed. 1940 date on back.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG03RLiK1IW63l1wvRj_smsrcUYREUFzB65GZPLf5r3W8rdTP71JaP4rv66PAu8YOU3tzDirkfRf10DG1Pe6Nk4lyrSGnlnJ1BBOsLV4zsEZBOrHKsnh0Iwbm03dFiuxwP_2TeXS40J6naOnoy1LD5HgzzRvl2dxkuiZMyhL5kJmqZOfCG04GM5hU8Cg/s540/pc-loc-linen-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="540" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG03RLiK1IW63l1wvRj_smsrcUYREUFzB65GZPLf5r3W8rdTP71JaP4rv66PAu8YOU3tzDirkfRf10DG1Pe6Nk4lyrSGnlnJ1BBOsLV4zsEZBOrHKsnh0Iwbm03dFiuxwP_2TeXS40J6naOnoy1LD5HgzzRvl2dxkuiZMyhL5kJmqZOfCG04GM5hU8Cg/s320/pc-loc-linen-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>CHROME ERA (1939-PRESENT)</div><div><br /></div><div> Unmailed.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="540" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzmh3mW3v7mAsYEzLPW0jz0DBIBsysMRG57Sgnul9BM943pTF7HggFC6CUrCshNvJ7G3yonI8EQHugNzU5p6TXEAtJrcp-bgpjW5GeufMp5f5POLDua5dtnjo8Q_6OV6GYUAnFZ6uqfM_V1wXYOLv2-DSb6HRCMr8Se-ggiEQ3ZiSvEZiz9olnJ-GgA/s320/pc-loc-rppc-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><p><br /></p></div></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-16510290365422904642022-08-12T14:14:00.001-07:002022-08-15T16:31:35.312-07:00America's First First Day Covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DzxXG2ahf7MP3ynRaNyUbR7Eti2so7cAn4lJ1bmnmTsJ4qjmBbmX4GgWfMc7zkn_qmzMEv-yLGXm5Scx4oK5qLeXw03U2ZcYW4naKH1XHh_fzUiWFH5TdDQRyZCAhU87Y5kOKzs8tXo56JjoE86V2NaWybAViA3TD6ohanuIOBfVNCMsUGPrZ5TrQA/s700/stotts-hayes-fdc-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="700" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DzxXG2ahf7MP3ynRaNyUbR7Eti2so7cAn4lJ1bmnmTsJ4qjmBbmX4GgWfMc7zkn_qmzMEv-yLGXm5Scx4oK5qLeXw03U2ZcYW4naKH1XHh_fzUiWFH5TdDQRyZCAhU87Y5kOKzs8tXo56JjoE86V2NaWybAViA3TD6ohanuIOBfVNCMsUGPrZ5TrQA/s320/stotts-hayes-fdc-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I'm a member of the <a href="https://www.usstamps.org/">United States Stamp Society</a>. One of the most important benefits of being a member is receiving their monthly journal <i><a href="https://www.usstamps.org/digital-specialist-archives/">The United States Specialist</a></i>. It is a wonderful source of philatelic information about postage stamps of the United States. The August issue for 2022 contained an especially interesting and informative article by Jay Stotts titled "One Collector's Fourth Bureau Issue Top Ten List". The Fourth Bureau set of stamps was first issued in 1922 and continued until 1938. Among Stotts' top ten list of these stamps were two that were of special interest to me. The first was the 11 cent Rutherford B. Hayes stamp which was issued by the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) on October 4, 1922. A special First Day of Issue ceremony was held for the stamp in Fremont, Ohio, the location of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library. First day covers were processed with the Hayes stamp and canceled with a Fremont, Ohio, October 4, 1922 cancel. One of those covers is shown above. The image is provided with the courtesy of Jay Stotts. According to Stotts this began the practice of holding first day of issue ceremonies and mailing first day covers at the site of the ceremony which continues to this date. I collect postal artifacts related to America's presidential libraries and have shown an exhibit of those items at several stamp shows. Jay told me that in his opinion the Fremont first day ceremony at the Hayes Library was in his eyes, a key philatelic event involving a presidential library. Which makes the Hayes first day cover a highly desirable item for my exhibit. If only I could afford one. </p><p>Jerry Katz has a fantastic site on the <a href="https://hayesfdc.wordpress.com/">FDCs of the 11¢ Hayes Postage Stamp of 1922</a>.</p><p>The second item in Jay's top ten list of particular interest to me is a first day cover featuring the 1923 2 cent Warren G. Harding stamp which was issued by the USPOD on September 1, 1923. This cover is considered to be America's first cacheted first day cover. It was produced by George W. Linn, the founder of <i>Linn's Stamp News</i>. A cachet in philately is any kind of illustration or printed information on a cover (envelope) that is not related to the cancellation, postmark, or address. The cachet on Linn's first day cover includes printed information about Harding. The cover is also a mourning cover. An example of the cover is shown below. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86CYWSbNxSAKUOCk1MrWdjbAmt1SGRKQoBqrl8zn0Tamh2FRX2Zn4X4v0gZsa3NtMpyqHmabzvUtEOaHpwXekC91HKoO7hjE_TJRT3_9IaGJcq-tfF8-GSQR7TWvImriXLKy6XU6w8Se-cDZpoqi-LYfKSLLyYYFZ-zHpGuQy9QBeYNtRaZCQsCIG4g/s460/fdc-harding-1923-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="460" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86CYWSbNxSAKUOCk1MrWdjbAmt1SGRKQoBqrl8zn0Tamh2FRX2Zn4X4v0gZsa3NtMpyqHmabzvUtEOaHpwXekC91HKoO7hjE_TJRT3_9IaGJcq-tfF8-GSQR7TWvImriXLKy6XU6w8Se-cDZpoqi-LYfKSLLyYYFZ-zHpGuQy9QBeYNtRaZCQsCIG4g/s320/fdc-harding-1923-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-66290177664904789422022-08-08T11:46:00.001-07:002022-08-08T11:56:45.203-07:00Anon E Mouse Library Covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCxi9LRmikE0WPdlJCTRpnmAOh43WAWinXdmYo6g_M2Wp813Lh5x9HIaSScdk2Pfmqe2tuBHB5Pwh8D_AxhBJu9PC1LuYGgs0JtPyzPAub0J8iPOyRrRGJfIDihNLQWHGLIy6i7bpjAEpCUOYdfiryKHs0uv3XOK8zIkKGGay3g6Mxa0-z51jLPn3dw/s600/fdc-loc-anon-e-mouse-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCxi9LRmikE0WPdlJCTRpnmAOh43WAWinXdmYo6g_M2Wp813Lh5x9HIaSScdk2Pfmqe2tuBHB5Pwh8D_AxhBJu9PC1LuYGgs0JtPyzPAub0J8iPOyRrRGJfIDihNLQWHGLIy6i7bpjAEpCUOYdfiryKHs0uv3XOK8zIkKGGay3g6Mxa0-z51jLPn3dw/w403-h224/fdc-loc-anon-e-mouse-100.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJr5UAFt14HboDFoLdsv3ArvA7QTlrX79Mwj5BoeWa7sQgSgjtsvFcF9YDzwJ-QTpXwILdESZS27kDqnDb9bCbLTJUzDMtNvKZhQsaARSiqoF7Gjd1bwnyQXPebxhUAcG2h2ijblySChZeJQMYyzD6gycPxs-IDjdpgvlqKYdwcVnxTraX2XPFFn0uRg/s600/anon-e-mouse100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJr5UAFt14HboDFoLdsv3ArvA7QTlrX79Mwj5BoeWa7sQgSgjtsvFcF9YDzwJ-QTpXwILdESZS27kDqnDb9bCbLTJUzDMtNvKZhQsaARSiqoF7Gjd1bwnyQXPebxhUAcG2h2ijblySChZeJQMYyzD6gycPxs-IDjdpgvlqKYdwcVnxTraX2XPFFn0uRg/w402-h226/anon-e-mouse100.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>In July I attended the Minnesota Stamp Expo. A highlight of the show was the philatelic exhibits which included a number of exhibits of first day covers. One of the first day cover exhibits was titled "How Now Brown Mouse? - The Evolution of Anon E. Mouse Cachets". The exhibit was the work of Cynthia Scott the creator of Anon E. Mouse Cachets. I collect and exhibit first day covers for library stamps and I was delighted to find a first day cover for one of those stamps in Cynthia's exhibit. It was the first day cover for the 1982 Library of Congress stamp which is shown above. I own a copy of that cover as well as Cynthia's cover for the 1982 America's Libraries stamp, also shown above. Cynthia has an <a href="https://www.anonemousecachets.com/">amazing website</a> which in addition to serving as a vehicle for marketing her covers also explains how she produces the covers. For the two covers above, she drew the cachet (illustration) designs using pen and pencil on a small sheet of paper which she inserted into multiple envelopes one at a time. Using a light box she then traced the original design on the envelopes. She then hand colored the designs on the envelopes. All of Cynthia's first day covers include an image of a small mouse. Cynthia received a gold medal for her exhibit in Minnesota. She has a <a href="https://www.anonemousecachets.com/history.html">copy of the exhibit</a> on her website. I have a first day cover exhibit for the America's Libraries stamp which includes Cynthia's cover for that stamp.</p><p>The <a href="https://afdcs.org/">American First Day Cover Society</a> (AFDCS) has lots of excellent information for anyone interested in learning more about first day covers.</p><p><br /></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-12693523289635080362022-07-13T09:45:00.000-07:002022-08-01T11:42:34.358-07:0040th Anniversary of the Stamp Honoring America's Libraries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAigWI8RYpVnR95n3Q6H8qdWg3xKWhXQp2c_JTPi_0rbI4bn0z10ht7IgHDluljxkytEdDPzocUdeoAwkAk9wtgc-c4c7kIx8Cjs-ZAVnyNvqO2V3HRXvDiKvdpIk3nkuuZm7g2WrPeLQ0B1sY-gDw24bL2JnzgLgxZ4v7dJcEa79-z2qh-RhscBKOg/s952/EnvALA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="952" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAigWI8RYpVnR95n3Q6H8qdWg3xKWhXQp2c_JTPi_0rbI4bn0z10ht7IgHDluljxkytEdDPzocUdeoAwkAk9wtgc-c4c7kIx8Cjs-ZAVnyNvqO2V3HRXvDiKvdpIk3nkuuZm7g2WrPeLQ0B1sY-gDw24bL2JnzgLgxZ4v7dJcEa79-z2qh-RhscBKOg/w372-h208/EnvALA.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><p>Forty years ago on July 13, 1982 the United States Postal Service (USPS) issued a postage stamp honoring America's libraries. It was the result of years of lobbying by the library profession for such a stamp. A first day of issue ceremony for the stamp was held in Philadelphia at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA). Originally the stamp was supposed to also honor the Library of Congress, but Librarian of Congress Daniel Borstin persuaded the USPS to issue a separate stamp for the Library of Congress. That stamp was issued on April 21, 1982. I previously wrote a <a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-1982-library-of-congress-stamp.html">post about that stamp</a>. Both stamps were designed by <a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2011/08/bradbury-thompson-library-stamp.html">Bradbury Thompson</a>, one of the world's great graphic designers and typographers. ALA, led by its President Betty Stone, went all out to promote the America's Libraries stamp. This included producing a first day cover (FDC) for the stamp (shown above) which was sold in various configurations. The one above is signed by Stone and ALA Executive Director Robert Wedgeworth. The cover included an insert with information about ALA. ALA contracted with ArtCraft, the major publisher of FDCs, to design and print its FDC. Over a hundred other FDC producers (called cachet makers) also designed an FDC for the America's Libraries stamp. I collect the different FDCs for the America's Libraries stamp and I have developed an exhibit of those covers which I have shown at national level stamp shows. Among the most sought after FDCs by collectors are those that are hand drawn and painted. The one below was created by arguably the most famous cachet maker <a href="https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/douglas-weisz-book-cachet-art-dorothy-knapp-first-day-covers.html">Dorothy Knapp</a>. I wrote an article titled "Bradbury Thompson's 1982 Library Stamps" for the July issue of <i>PHILATELI-GRAPHICS</i>, the publication of the <a href="https://www.graphics-stamps.org/">Graphics Philately Association</a> of the <a href="https://americantopical.org/">American Topical Association</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLC8EfQ7ReWRaB7CPVoP1eXlxFJvB3jkXh6aQe_ZITCtiJAcNe-ZGgzseihnDN8uzKjDNGtDy1Ok1xlp-jANPBfeIcfan7ker5wQKiBfenwIsNFenK-yH0reeSUF_3xhRefaxT2li7dAxOXRkiC_0IbJsDKg0wukJ-yL4QjFJPAn4MN98fCgGJgcLYYA/s642/env-fdc-knapp-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="642" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLC8EfQ7ReWRaB7CPVoP1eXlxFJvB3jkXh6aQe_ZITCtiJAcNe-ZGgzseihnDN8uzKjDNGtDy1Ok1xlp-jANPBfeIcfan7ker5wQKiBfenwIsNFenK-yH0reeSUF_3xhRefaxT2li7dAxOXRkiC_0IbJsDKg0wukJ-yL4QjFJPAn4MN98fCgGJgcLYYA/w373-h211/env-fdc-knapp-100.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-83986781938358526742022-07-03T14:48:00.001-07:002022-07-03T14:48:44.873-07:00Braddock Carnegie Library 25th Anniversary Postcard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBzDkojd1IGeMjAzk-TKBlU_bD8hc-RH-4lCPmBjHdm5wOjA0ve6Bwbpp2hmqCMhE8MHLRmx2qXXwi5HPjalRpFVc9__VRTJA-Y15PuaE0L2j4cnO_JnUtysb9HA8AzkjWHndhF0_PqedKe5rs-R2A60T_zP710x7h9FN2_ihRgF0uWZdQqrIBqRA-Q/s550/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsBzDkojd1IGeMjAzk-TKBlU_bD8hc-RH-4lCPmBjHdm5wOjA0ve6Bwbpp2hmqCMhE8MHLRmx2qXXwi5HPjalRpFVc9__VRTJA-Y15PuaE0L2j4cnO_JnUtysb9HA8AzkjWHndhF0_PqedKe5rs-R2A60T_zP710x7h9FN2_ihRgF0uWZdQqrIBqRA-Q/s320/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-100.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixohYdC_IBHDxIOmMfdmgvKXOumM3AQ3_hhxAXjq1XzuyrGl7i_lZwX4YvKAttoYF-dIroHks2CMzlkg_hF4TiFKXWgxZQHJ4VTx98806kX1SeJNvBm5AhqweXb-Fhmky-fmtdveL_sjd9upGFvM4oU8NzBWzyQCEXwEAWjJ0oP0ooZc1mmi5yBfFpfg/s550/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-back-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixohYdC_IBHDxIOmMfdmgvKXOumM3AQ3_hhxAXjq1XzuyrGl7i_lZwX4YvKAttoYF-dIroHks2CMzlkg_hF4TiFKXWgxZQHJ4VTx98806kX1SeJNvBm5AhqweXb-Fhmky-fmtdveL_sjd9upGFvM4oU8NzBWzyQCEXwEAWjJ0oP0ooZc1mmi5yBfFpfg/s320/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-back-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, PA was the first Carnegie library built in America. The library was dedicated by Andrew Carnegie on March 30, 1889. On April 29, 1914 there was a 25th anniversary celebration of the opening of the library. Andrew Carnegie was also on hand for this event. I have many postcards in my library postcard collection related to Carnegie libraries but the one above is exceptional because of its image and its content. The real photo postcard (RPPC) depicts the grandstand and its dignitaries (including Carnegie) at the 25th anniversary celebration in Braddock. The content on the picture side of the postcard reads: "The above picture represents Doc. Whitfield introducing Andy to the crowd. Library street was packed from the Maple alley to above Parker. You can see Dinkey Schwab, Bope, Hunt all those big guys." The content on the message side reads: "Just to show you that I'm still busy. This is one of 24 pictures I got on the day of the 25th celebration. I got two catalogs from Penn State." The message is signed by Laddie P-?. The postcard was mailed from Braddock, PA to State College, PA on May 18, 1914. It is mailed to Mr. A. Northington. </p><p>An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazett for October 3, 2012 describes the 25th anniversary event as follows: "Braddock’s streets were packed when Andrew Carnegie arrived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library he’d built for the town. Flags flew from almost every building, according to newspaper reports, and hundreds of pictures of the steel king were on display. Carnegie led the crowd in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne” and remained on his feet during the entire two-hour ceremony."</p><p>Wikipedia had a nice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Free_Library_of_Braddock">entry about the Braddock Carnegie Library</a> which recounts the history of the building. The library is now operated by the <a href="http://braddockcarnegielibrary.org/">Braddock Carnegie Library Association</a>. </p><p>I wrote a previous blog post titled <a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012/12/americas-first-carnegie-library.html">"America's First Carnegie Libraries"</a> in 2012 which noted that both the Braddock Carnegie Library and the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny have a claim to being the first Carnegie library in America.</p><div>I have over <a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Carnegie%20Libraries">70 blog posts related to Carnegie libraries</a>.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlhfjDtaQcOq5LIN9WiNPnCWxsVKKNTPQ9bXNaf3dC72FIl8ZLFPRr3G5ZDxkJvduX59RdbrtfCU1WKwpdRRPI1Z0MOt5F0SLy27Q2qZgXlSdaY0iB9o1mHCLLUi9g9O-rNU94hw061il1tTaKDZ2ZNQd44aGpYx5smEM5gbq7273Qi_27Tet7Ofx1w/s1339/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-detail-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKlhfjDtaQcOq5LIN9WiNPnCWxsVKKNTPQ9bXNaf3dC72FIl8ZLFPRr3G5ZDxkJvduX59RdbrtfCU1WKwpdRRPI1Z0MOt5F0SLy27Q2qZgXlSdaY0iB9o1mHCLLUi9g9O-rNU94hw061il1tTaKDZ2ZNQd44aGpYx5smEM5gbq7273Qi_27Tet7Ofx1w/s320/pc-pa-braddock-carnegie-detail-2.jpg" width="287" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enlarged detail of postcard photo showing Carnegie</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-85617800817818425482022-06-30T16:36:00.003-07:002022-07-05T07:09:07.879-07:001850s Library of Congress Copyright Envelope<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiruXmwH82eAnd9WA6ie7pXQ2zGTsQNemEMRCFDa5HJLDApyOBqE2UzZ3uh4Do-A3HWSM75dS6FWJqM_-BzoARTdk93QoRm82VRIlrmKwzFDjGq3Kd_qINdY4SXXE0KsqTHvtVSyb3q9KIxqaI96JCJTmZJ1AuWn4t_FhcJhs0Jo_kAvieitSyZ1VQZqQ/s650/env-loc-copyright-1851-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="650" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiruXmwH82eAnd9WA6ie7pXQ2zGTsQNemEMRCFDa5HJLDApyOBqE2UzZ3uh4Do-A3HWSM75dS6FWJqM_-BzoARTdk93QoRm82VRIlrmKwzFDjGq3Kd_qINdY4SXXE0KsqTHvtVSyb3q9KIxqaI96JCJTmZJ1AuWn4t_FhcJhs0Jo_kAvieitSyZ1VQZqQ/w474-h197/env-loc-copyright-1851-100.jpg" width="474" /></a></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBy7soG_A1YgWOlWfgoVnH1Eq7T8UVI_U7luPTf9DwsM2I_Kx8YP0NmGT8zjoaahzoST2UKZ6QJ1L0emmLf44K4MEtrqFr7zd43cDcyQoJaHc8CVgqug6LjkbU_n5g8U6mb3ZMs7aky8HLSJuEqESPkS6D2GHQKrCZSrpUxlFvy714fEtB595ZCrOlTg/s882/env-loc-copyright-1851-detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="882" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBy7soG_A1YgWOlWfgoVnH1Eq7T8UVI_U7luPTf9DwsM2I_Kx8YP0NmGT8zjoaahzoST2UKZ6QJ1L0emmLf44K4MEtrqFr7zd43cDcyQoJaHc8CVgqug6LjkbU_n5g8U6mb3ZMs7aky8HLSJuEqESPkS6D2GHQKrCZSrpUxlFvy714fEtB595ZCrOlTg/s320/env-loc-copyright-1851-detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I've been collecting Library of Congress postal items for over 25 years. These items contitute a postal history of the Library of Congress. Items mailed by or on behalf of the library before 1860 that still exist are rare. Before I acquired the envelope shown above, I had only seen one other postal item mailed by the library before 1860. Obviously I was excited to add it to my collection. The envelope is identified as being mailed by the Library of Congress by the notation or docket on the left side of the envelope. It reads "Librarian of Congress recpt of our Copy Right articles". The envelope was mailed between 1851 and 1854 to Messrs Troup and Fickardt in Circleville, Ohio. George Fickardt and J.A. Troup were druggists in Circleville. The mailing period is established because their partnership only existed from about 1847 to 1854. Additionally, the 5 cent postal rate shown in the postmark went into effect on July 1, 1851 for unpaid postage (to be paid by the recipient). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The envelope is also of significance in regard to the impact of copyright laws on the Library of Congress. An August 10, 1846 act of Congress authorized the Library of Congress to receive as a deposit one copy of each copyrighted "book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or engraving." Because that requirement had no enforcement provision and was largely ineffective it was repealed by an act of Congress on Feb. 5, 1859. An act on March 3, 1865 reinstituted a requirement that the Library of Congress receive one copy of each copyrighted item. On July 8, 1870 President Grant approved an acto Congress that centralized all U.S. copyright registration and deposit activities at the Library of Congress. The implementation of the 1870 law resulted in an enormous expansion of the use of the mail be the Library of Congress. I have developed a philatelic exhibit on the administration of copyright by the Library of Congress during the period 1870 to 1930. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have over <a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Library%20of%20Congress ">50 other blog posts</a> related to the Library of Congress.</div></div><br /><p></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-37696688490314093652022-04-21T08:55:00.000-07:002022-08-01T11:43:13.505-07:00The 1982 Library of Congress Stamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLm9e1rKXO3KJ8F_rwpS1FfLftkjpIrtmN5T7kbtuSVeGES3VvAs9TzLxbz1rGNS6oQDPmjMB4ouZCNPHe8uSwdJI8cPmsDPTIXEYIpkWhoVaQzhwmjS3Hl0rJowFVPyPIHN9JBlFITONTJSRxUPThV8kdLE52ClSVhzlOmAFJckNDn6J2W3YFq5r37Q/s600/nix-bradbury-article-fig-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="600" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLm9e1rKXO3KJ8F_rwpS1FfLftkjpIrtmN5T7kbtuSVeGES3VvAs9TzLxbz1rGNS6oQDPmjMB4ouZCNPHe8uSwdJI8cPmsDPTIXEYIpkWhoVaQzhwmjS3Hl0rJowFVPyPIHN9JBlFITONTJSRxUPThV8kdLE52ClSVhzlOmAFJckNDn6J2W3YFq5r37Q/s320/nix-bradbury-article-fig-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>On this day (April 21, 1982) forty years ago the United States Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Library of Congress. It was significant in that it was the first United States stamp to specifically honor a library. Although there had been previous postage stamps on which library buildings had appeared, those were issued to commemorate academic and other institutions or architects. Originally, the proposed stamp was to commemorate all of America's libraries collectively and the Library of Congress individually. Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin wasn't happy with the design of the stamp, however, and the Postmaster General agreed to issue a separate stamp for the Library of Congress. The stamp honoring America’s Libraries collectively was issued on July 13,1982 at the conference of the American Library Association in Philadelphia. Both stamps were designed by noted graphics designer <a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2011/08/bradbury-thompson-library-stamp.html ">Bradbury Thompson</a>. I have a large collection of first day covers for both stamps. One of my favorites for the Library of Congress issue is shown above. It was the Library of Congress Philatelic Club Cachet Number 1. The illustration on the envelope (called a cachet) is a pen and ink drawing by Paul Boswell. Boswell was a staff member at the Library of Congress where he worked for 46 years. Bowell was also a poet and in 1994 Boswell published a book of his poems and drawings titled <i>No Anchovies on the Moon: Three Score and Ten Washington Pictures and Poems</i>. Boswell died in 1994. The first day cover is signed by Boswell and Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin. </p><p>The Library of Congress Philatelic Club produced first day covers for 18 different stamp issues. Their second first day cover cachet was for the America’s Libraries stamp.</p><p>I also published a <a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012/04/30th-anniversary-of-americas-first.html">blog post</a> on the 30th anniversary of the issue of the Library of Congress stamp.</p><div><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-29617937150792213332022-03-23T10:04:00.000-07:002022-03-23T10:04:15.690-07:00Women on Library Postcards Revisited<p> As a tribute to Women's History Month I'm revisiting the topic of women on library postcards which I previously posted about on<a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2013/03/women-on-library-postcards.html"> March 12, 2013</a>. The first postcard below was mailed on July 10, 1907 and depicts the female staff of the Aurora Public Library in Aurora, Illinois. The library had moved into a new building in 1904 funded by a $50,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. With the help of more recent staff members I was able to identify the women on the post card left to right as Alice Belleau, Gladys V. Hull, Minnie J. Pooley, Matie K. Quinn, Lillian C. Miles, Kate E. Marshall, and H. Belva Hull. James Shaw, the Librarian at the time, is not shown.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Mhka3C7hyINGA-EMGYJby9GsdJ9LYO5xjskLookgTb3kRbTC6zhvmKIbM5JagiguTpdn-w8m0J5VPtNdNll8HP9GkxgDCKPWWUlaY21j5tD2SIEZhT41Ij94K1bjcJzuZUdonQZMMDr4_xa_qysEpbr2NmFppRvWJj7O6wWXNAfJkx1pNQZvsMjQzw/s550/pc-il-aurora-librarians-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="550" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Mhka3C7hyINGA-EMGYJby9GsdJ9LYO5xjskLookgTb3kRbTC6zhvmKIbM5JagiguTpdn-w8m0J5VPtNdNll8HP9GkxgDCKPWWUlaY21j5tD2SIEZhT41Ij94K1bjcJzuZUdonQZMMDr4_xa_qysEpbr2NmFppRvWJj7O6wWXNAfJkx1pNQZvsMjQzw/s320/pc-il-aurora-librarians-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOG6RmsNBVvYm1PYPti3BKFT6Vw8OQwy8ykpGJU0UyKq1fSAGjxLX24TKANQG0KAoex7qftQqNK8D-4RCcSlskTSOggC4B443UMa1LHBa_fC_-JZrC8aFTTWHfuDl2zrLodzP7VO08NRyl-4wNBXqIHF8OxWZrjfhbDXlmJ7Xj1EXWvs7x0RjB3h7Ig/s550/pc-me-eliot-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="550" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOG6RmsNBVvYm1PYPti3BKFT6Vw8OQwy8ykpGJU0UyKq1fSAGjxLX24TKANQG0KAoex7qftQqNK8D-4RCcSlskTSOggC4B443UMa1LHBa_fC_-JZrC8aFTTWHfuDl2zrLodzP7VO08NRyl-4wNBXqIHF8OxWZrjfhbDXlmJ7Xj1EXWvs7x0RjB3h7Ig/s320/pc-me-eliot-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior William Fogg Library in Eliot, ME. Unmailed RPPC circa 1907. <br />Librarian Gail Willis is at table in reading room.</td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qgCJzBQoRledZ3Wrfg_v9xHAG4soL5Reove2gpWEiRnE-R3jMKLVEgmosQd8JHgR0EhUWMGBCCcnTdtMUCKrgRfo1ka115lGNGMBIHQ53_88ptn4yD6ZR_u8HK91GhISgv-6hcPliK64XWd85X070cWtm0j8jIG01Rcmb54GLUui6WMZsDBk99P0AA/s550/pc-mi-adrian-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="550" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qgCJzBQoRledZ3Wrfg_v9xHAG4soL5Reove2gpWEiRnE-R3jMKLVEgmosQd8JHgR0EhUWMGBCCcnTdtMUCKrgRfo1ka115lGNGMBIHQ53_88ptn4yD6ZR_u8HK91GhISgv-6hcPliK64XWd85X070cWtm0j8jIG01Rcmb54GLUui6WMZsDBk99P0AA/s320/pc-mi-adrian-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior Adrian College Library in Adrian, MI. Mailed on 1/10/09.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cx9vAw__GvM_UOQcGACXl279OtCBQnv7DZ82Pp2TA-MU0ibb8KQPIb7WRuIjvGcoLFAZdP9Mh2ULzO46RhSaJg421j4XW-9YKdUu4wNioTpb4Kc31cP4rBpsvwZJXK_F3NfcTtIZ44xnNcq0yAjiq2TKlEEoqEmUkpnFIKc6T3WjMcrxEnAM4pZ5bA/s550/pc-ma-hyannis-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="550" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cx9vAw__GvM_UOQcGACXl279OtCBQnv7DZ82Pp2TA-MU0ibb8KQPIb7WRuIjvGcoLFAZdP9Mh2ULzO46RhSaJg421j4XW-9YKdUu4wNioTpb4Kc31cP4rBpsvwZJXK_F3NfcTtIZ44xnNcq0yAjiq2TKlEEoqEmUkpnFIKc6T3WjMcrxEnAM4pZ5bA/s320/pc-ma-hyannis-100.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior Hyannis (MA) Public Library. Unmailed RPPC circa 1930s. <br />Ora Adams, librarian from 1900 to 1943, at desk.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3luNDEs3vIo1lvfXyCntNu9DpnGhrvHY1Fng0Unki125dD-LLXW28_o_4FRpQ9G1A8kYHFUo4kIkmNxIbpi57zzgn_NV9y25RVDBBuICNIevu_hRMfOf_8oAnCHmfLlePbM8Ihw7dEvH8bBTfX2df2oN7RI-7ji-pFgrT5Y5qencUX7b7qMyyChbAg/s550/pc-or-bookmobile-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="550" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3luNDEs3vIo1lvfXyCntNu9DpnGhrvHY1Fng0Unki125dD-LLXW28_o_4FRpQ9G1A8kYHFUo4kIkmNxIbpi57zzgn_NV9y25RVDBBuICNIevu_hRMfOf_8oAnCHmfLlePbM8Ihw7dEvH8bBTfX2df2oN7RI-7ji-pFgrT5Y5qencUX7b7qMyyChbAg/s320/pc-or-bookmobile-100.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bookmobile for the Library Associatin of Portland, Oregon. Unmailed circa 1920s.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-25599556821640275722022-02-28T12:36:00.001-08:002022-02-28T14:51:27.619-08:00More Carnegie HBCU Libraries on Postcards<p> Andrew Carnegie funded library buildings at fifteen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). I have previous posts about the <a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2022/02/charles-winter-wood-tuskegee-institute.html">library at Tuskegee Institute</a> in Alabama and the <a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2022/02/fisk-university-libraries.html">library at Fisk University</a>. The other libraries are located at: Alabama A&M in Normal, AL; Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA; Benedict College in Columbia, SC; Johnson C. Smith Univ. in Charlotte, NC (formerly Biddle Univ.); Cheyney State University in PA; Florida A&M in Tallahassee, FL; Fort Valley Normal and Industrial Institute Fort Valley, GA; Howard University in DC; Knoxville College in Knoxville, TN; Livingstone College in NC; Talladega College in AL, Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio; and Wiley College in TX. Postcards for the libraries are difficult, if not impossible, to find. Below are postcards showing Carnegie HBCU libraries in my collection.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEQVJ_QKLAR8DtYtI9XhMYHrmaycE8OqNWeMp1Hr35A0RZgssjlkYcv0FbOIlchYPAIqlikpEMGWSMeFob06weVwYglCbNsUJneU4rXHedx1KkCQMkDXeimZ1Deg6LlzYfcEj7CZlg1QrYQQQoUgphieP_vsadhBtXvdWkLj3_AZQw1xhdG7o5Sr9Yxw=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEQVJ_QKLAR8DtYtI9XhMYHrmaycE8OqNWeMp1Hr35A0RZgssjlkYcv0FbOIlchYPAIqlikpEMGWSMeFob06weVwYglCbNsUJneU4rXHedx1KkCQMkDXeimZ1Deg6LlzYfcEj7CZlg1QrYQQQoUgphieP_vsadhBtXvdWkLj3_AZQw1xhdG7o5Sr9Yxw=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carnegie Library, Alabama A&M Univ. in Normal, AL</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjShriH9v7pdixXYwHQwl65i1A2Etd63So5SoAkKj2KClTus2msiMOQedIAEEc7XbNXqJDravrAbpuzJcgY3MDM9kULsLRwGeC-_N-G41hI2Lukjude7fe_6808SPa6JKAXmcU_sghITvArmDgeClPvfoo6GuXXPY1RaSFPtL8Fw9sUtiwrHYRHyjjfJA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjShriH9v7pdixXYwHQwl65i1A2Etd63So5SoAkKj2KClTus2msiMOQedIAEEc7XbNXqJDravrAbpuzJcgY3MDM9kULsLRwGeC-_N-G41hI2Lukjude7fe_6808SPa6JKAXmcU_sghITvArmDgeClPvfoo6GuXXPY1RaSFPtL8Fw9sUtiwrHYRHyjjfJA=s320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carnegie Library, Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Library is building on the left.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjShriH9v7pdixXYwHQwl65i1A2Etd63So5SoAkKj2KClTus2msiMOQedIAEEc7XbNXqJDravrAbpuzJcgY3MDM9kULsLRwGeC-_N-G41hI2Lukjude7fe_6808SPa6JKAXmcU_sghITvArmDgeClPvfoo6GuXXPY1RaSFPtL8Fw9sUtiwrHYRHyjjfJA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgseVeF5xPfbOKPDtrb8ISpNaX4czcNc065_hMhnnSpwt-9smJVvJkFmVNZL1S5mTsf4vU0yWax8h2bwAsQRp2JdXa2Js7eCD_sT4HwhzuCLpjPUM4yuft9bh8mALZBZEoHE3s-bM9Dq1K-sGFfydzFvSMa6MSu6lCS8sMjaOXc1DB89WXsu6inHVi-wA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgseVeF5xPfbOKPDtrb8ISpNaX4czcNc065_hMhnnSpwt-9smJVvJkFmVNZL1S5mTsf4vU0yWax8h2bwAsQRp2JdXa2Js7eCD_sT4HwhzuCLpjPUM4yuft9bh8mALZBZEoHE3s-bM9Dq1K-sGFfydzFvSMa6MSu6lCS8sMjaOXc1DB89WXsu6inHVi-wA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carnegie Library, Benedict College in Columbia, SC</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhCsWlXpZUPdHiHZqlnUxOMPa9H0xjYg6oRmsytLUlXKVdEQQp82Cezu-INRmGZZ_-RVygsRHKuNGhycHrZHfARbva7Ew1Q4vZl6JVQb_5BjMEll5rfdI9fpeBKnrYgfOpVZniao1pLAl9gCFpe3RlK3_fshqCyUSDLvoUTPuf2Vaktlm_rXaAjBEpjg=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhCsWlXpZUPdHiHZqlnUxOMPa9H0xjYg6oRmsytLUlXKVdEQQp82Cezu-INRmGZZ_-RVygsRHKuNGhycHrZHfARbva7Ew1Q4vZl6JVQb_5BjMEll5rfdI9fpeBKnrYgfOpVZniao1pLAl9gCFpe3RlK3_fshqCyUSDLvoUTPuf2Vaktlm_rXaAjBEpjg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carnegie Library, Florida A&M in Tallahassee, FL</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGUEmKTfxLUqyv8ql6Qsg1r2jTSSxXq-gnflaSuWVGqLKs6ZIZ6FbDe7sPCRuGA9REGc1jC9Vcd38Bd0DsWMNvTBVmD9co12doIyJPx6y1yvyJvd6xb-IKInOrRiQTf01lkl_t2I89N2VH5DTm7pG-2QvKW_7Z3M_QRARZqkbV69I3cBpYBLvmM-E8zg=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="550" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGUEmKTfxLUqyv8ql6Qsg1r2jTSSxXq-gnflaSuWVGqLKs6ZIZ6FbDe7sPCRuGA9REGc1jC9Vcd38Bd0DsWMNvTBVmD9co12doIyJPx6y1yvyJvd6xb-IKInOrRiQTf01lkl_t2I89N2VH5DTm7pG-2QvKW_7Z3M_QRARZqkbV69I3cBpYBLvmM-E8zg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Fort Valley Normal and Industrial Institute Fort Valley, GA<br />Carnegie Library is building on the left.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwd0-06N1NwXqYruNAwTzJgxMJJwAW-tUqttdAuppHoNwjJj5c9ZByVD7j88dDcD-1srkX0zPAtkBnC6gHFcKg6D8K9fCYbbYVX5rPLyvG4eHDeP7oEyZ_cv_Vkca9e7shY2SlHP-smm12P6LYmvYwKgxRR4acaczLfBX0o6kYOYioFicu0fqOV0h23Q=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="550" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwd0-06N1NwXqYruNAwTzJgxMJJwAW-tUqttdAuppHoNwjJj5c9ZByVD7j88dDcD-1srkX0zPAtkBnC6gHFcKg6D8K9fCYbbYVX5rPLyvG4eHDeP7oEyZ_cv_Vkca9e7shY2SlHP-smm12P6LYmvYwKgxRR4acaczLfBX0o6kYOYioFicu0fqOV0h23Q=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Carnegie Library, Howard University in DC</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEHwRHCoWLc7ywZYHMHcXHXQXUUqYsPCrj18tVTHkO-RVyHVix51JHQFFN1vkOdSgowgVCkhfN82MIW4EwKhTeIBYoTpv9lcZw9sxRFt0nFkHnj8viLRywB3u9ghk1-20GcvZwxF355GWggSUiuxY6gICynqf_5erWz9_XhNT3KkxYgFn1595WFlYVJA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="550" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEHwRHCoWLc7ywZYHMHcXHXQXUUqYsPCrj18tVTHkO-RVyHVix51JHQFFN1vkOdSgowgVCkhfN82MIW4EwKhTeIBYoTpv9lcZw9sxRFt0nFkHnj8viLRywB3u9ghk1-20GcvZwxF355GWggSUiuxY6gICynqf_5erWz9_XhNT3KkxYgFn1595WFlYVJA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Johnson C. Smith Univ. in Charlotte, NC (formerly Biddle Univ.) <br />Carnegie Library is building on the right.<br /><br /><br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-5701923364933605822022-02-14T11:38:00.005-08:002022-02-18T09:10:01.345-08:00Fisk University Libraries<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA4YevzyE6U_g8J2sD-Dv1sYKRmaQSynM6OdyJo6qLoySIVCojh4VG25J09UynCfzvqwRlrQ_f_1vKdaAltBiM8-n2oc-l8-tT4FngXMaZbVI8AEcSggp7tpXdZBJyRSdQiBhw0HXSJuc4556Ur6AsysFCwp1Q2sdOmXJH4w3ybkgoH_qIK9ZhVmgxrA=s580" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="580" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA4YevzyE6U_g8J2sD-Dv1sYKRmaQSynM6OdyJo6qLoySIVCojh4VG25J09UynCfzvqwRlrQ_f_1vKdaAltBiM8-n2oc-l8-tT4FngXMaZbVI8AEcSggp7tpXdZBJyRSdQiBhw0HXSJuc4556Ur6AsysFCwp1Q2sdOmXJH4w3ybkgoH_qIK9ZhVmgxrA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.fisk.edu/">Fisk University</a> is a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Nashville, TN which was established in 1866. The University was the recipient of a grant for $20,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a library building in 1905. The library opened in 1909. It was designed by black architect Moses McKissack III, and it was one of the first major structures designed by a black architect in the U.S. An image of the library is shown above. The building currently serves as the Fisk University Academic Building. The image is from an<a href="https://theclio.com/entry/36043"> online article</a> by John Baldwin titled "Fisk University Academic Building (formerly Carnegie Library)" which is part of Clio: Your Guide to History for May 18, 2018. An interesting aspect of the Fisk University Carnegie library building was that it was made available to Nashville's "colored citizens" under the same rules as it served Fisk students. I learned this information from an excellent <a href="https://www.tnla.org/page/290/TL-v59n4-Fisk-University-Library-.htm">historical overview </a>of Fisk University libraries by Jessica Carney Smith in <i>Tennessee Libraries</i>. At the time Smith wrote the article she was the Librarian for Fisk. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi89WSZOAjM0cH2cXgW4j_eKuqopIv9UWL8Z-E5AvrlmOP5ivR4BgEGcsDJHCipfJ8NJt5Fbk4KRHuQ9e3ImuZDlWzY8LHjdvHNncNBp9Wu49rBKZX502sRIan6K-FcDWUxnmxh4cICMxu_n_dxyikapRXhFkU45P0bRBtfFs39vcwPDMn_Y8IuAPZcJw=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="550" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi89WSZOAjM0cH2cXgW4j_eKuqopIv9UWL8Z-E5AvrlmOP5ivR4BgEGcsDJHCipfJ8NJt5Fbk4KRHuQ9e3ImuZDlWzY8LHjdvHNncNBp9Wu49rBKZX502sRIan6K-FcDWUxnmxh4cICMxu_n_dxyikapRXhFkU45P0bRBtfFs39vcwPDMn_Y8IuAPZcJw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By the late 1920s the Carnegie building was inadequate and a $400,000 grant from the General Education Board made a new library building possible. That building which is shown on the postcard above was completed in the fall of 1930. It was designed by architect Henry C. Hibbs. Then University Librarian Louis S. Shores played a major role in its planning. The building was designed to also serve nearby Meharry Medical College. Provision was also made to include a "Carnegie branch library" for Nashville's black residents. A significant feature of the interior of the building was murals painted by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to Jessica Carnie Smith's article <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arna_Bontemps">Arna Bontemps</a>, a Harlem Renaissance writer, became Fisk's first black head librarian in 1943. Bontemps added professional staff and built up special collections at the library. He left Fisk in 1965 and was replaced by Jessica Carney Smith. The need for an even larger library facility resulted in a new 74,000 square foot building that opened in January 1970. it was named the <a href="https://www.fisk.edu/academics/library/">John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library</a> in 2000.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I attended George Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) in Nashville from 1961 to 1965. From 1963 to 1965 I worked part time at the Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. During that period Arna Bontemps served on the Board of Trustees of the public library. For part of the time his son was also a part-time employee of the public library. In 1965 I applied to the University of Illinois Library School and part of the application process involved an interview with an alumni of the school. Jessica Carney Smith was working at what is now Tennessee State University in Nashville when I applied to the U of I. She had just received her doctorate from the University of Illinois Library School, the first African American to do so, and she conducted my interview. Soon after that Smith became the Librarian at Fisk University.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-68453186635729699632022-02-08T12:34:00.001-08:002022-02-18T08:17:54.621-08:00Hampton Institute's Library School<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBXUJDTCe7IloqB4-D0GoZTSCjDu_E2GkxpTmpuGGB9pGgMlstzbZjwyoBAyAyFWUgqj35MHXc6miEJ___oG1Qnf-x0x-gxDh4QXv-5pR_-929tkHhwvR06lHBuvBDlEAGt94GvX2sZsXe7WQT-_XNyy7n0uW1wWchJZQoxMOZmEq6wMlnftrfiOkg7Q=s650" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="650" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBXUJDTCe7IloqB4-D0GoZTSCjDu_E2GkxpTmpuGGB9pGgMlstzbZjwyoBAyAyFWUgqj35MHXc6miEJ___oG1Qnf-x0x-gxDh4QXv-5pR_-929tkHhwvR06lHBuvBDlEAGt94GvX2sZsXe7WQT-_XNyy7n0uW1wWchJZQoxMOZmEq6wMlnftrfiOkg7Q=w383-h212" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The otherwise unremarkable envelope above which I recently added to my collection of postal librariana has an interesting black history connection. <a href="https://www.hamptonu.edu/about/history.cfm">Hampton University</a> (formerly Hampton Institute) in Hampton, VA is one of America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (UBCUs). The envelope was mailed from The Library School Hampton Institute in Hampton, VA on Dec. 17, 1932 to Northfield, MN. A cooperative effort involving the American Library Association (ALA), the Carnegie Corporation, and other philanthropic foundations resulted in the establishment of a library school at the then Hampton Institute in 1925. It was the nation's first and only library school to serve African Americans. The library school was initially funded with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation and was accredited by the American Library Association to issue a bachelor's degree in library science. The library school lasted until 1939 when it was cut due to lack of funding. An <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2292881">article</a> on "The Passing of the Hampton Library School" by S.L. Smith appeared in the January, 1940 issue of the <i>Journal of Negro Education</i>. Also under consideration for the library school were Fisk University in Nashville, TN and Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA. The decision to select the Hampton Institute for the library school is explored in an <a href="https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/O_Shiflett_Hampton_1996.pdf">article</a> titled "Hampton, Fisk, and Atlanta: The Foundations, the American Library Association, and Library Education for Blacks, 1925-1941" by Robert Martin and Lee Shiflett in the Spring 1966 issue of <i>Libraries and Culture</i>. After the demise of the library school at Hampton Institute a library school was established at Atlanta University in 1941. That library school ceased to exist in 1991. A history of the Atlanta University school is located <a href="http://www.libsci.sc.edu/histories/Georgia/libraries/academic/atlantauniversity/Atlanta_University.pdf">HERE</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In 2018 when Hampton University celebrated its 150th anniversary the University's Library conducted a<a href="https://hamptonu.libguides.com/c.php?g=815577&p=5832646"> forum</a> on "Minority Recruitment and Retention in the Library & Information Science Field." </div></div><p><br /></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-54618124458670010922022-02-02T08:00:00.002-08:002022-08-01T11:44:17.168-07:00Charles Winter Wood, Tuskegee Institute Librarian<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjLqn_JgnSNy4Uo_dL9dJ9tYr9KIxYNYygW-OfqqDu-U296YUJ1VLR8BL8qtBWyjRn9eisSSCByvgQ8NVzziOPxz-a6KGo1RJspBzzL6l1rZFPwSFaKaL_S4Bp2kD-n3VJ3y1ZkPOixrynAHxHOZtl-LlWSd2GELKzVVYrwtSZcw_1PayFvcb_JCHZBQ=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="550" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjLqn_JgnSNy4Uo_dL9dJ9tYr9KIxYNYygW-OfqqDu-U296YUJ1VLR8BL8qtBWyjRn9eisSSCByvgQ8NVzziOPxz-a6KGo1RJspBzzL6l1rZFPwSFaKaL_S4Bp2kD-n3VJ3y1ZkPOixrynAHxHOZtl-LlWSd2GELKzVVYrwtSZcw_1PayFvcb_JCHZBQ=s320" width="320" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The un-mailed undivided back postcard above has several different stories to tell. It includes a picture of Charles Winter Wood (1869-1953) who is identified as the Librarian for the Carnegie Library of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There is little information, however, about Wood's role as a librarian on the Internet. There is an <a href="https://www.beloit.edu/live/news/1077-fridays-with-fred-charles-winter-wood">article about Wood's connection with Beloit College</a> in Wisconsin, something that caught me by surprise. Booker T. Washington hired Wood as head of Tuskegee Institute's English and Drama Departments in 1897, a capacity in which he served for over 30 years. In 1900 the Tuskegee Institute received the first of 15 grants made by Andrew Carnegie for library buildings for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). The Carnegie Library building is shown on the postcard above. Wood assumed the additional role of Librarian for the Tuskegee Institute in 1904. It is not clear how long he maintained this dual responsibility but the postcard was copyrighted in 1907. Outside of his academic responsibilities at the Tuskegee Institute, Wood is most noted for his acting career which was significant. The Charles Winter Wood Theater at Florida A&M University is named for him. Shaundra Walker has written an interesting <a href="https://kb.gcsu.edu/lib/3/">article about Andrew Carnegie's library grants to HBCUs</a>. There is also an interesting <a href="https://aquila.usm.edu/rocoverview/">project at the University of Southern Mississippi about Carnegies grants </a>for public library buildings that served African Americans. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrs1BLs_OMKQXOzoxZPPZy_rDLkAJsB7SSau_sIM1JK9Hh2Tk4VY7zDj-xLZn0Ork-n9gVXpVqDo8yRr10BxOtf17rVNoRdGVQjYF4HdczlabUE7cAoLHKglooF1vz-sFkR2y0WSaUpf6me0MPkmw29-tvj1G9hEKSKHqPjs8Gro5F6vpKFWtCnnF3WQ=s650"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="650" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrs1BLs_OMKQXOzoxZPPZy_rDLkAJsB7SSau_sIM1JK9Hh2Tk4VY7zDj-xLZn0Ork-n9gVXpVqDo8yRr10BxOtf17rVNoRdGVQjYF4HdczlabUE7cAoLHKglooF1vz-sFkR2y0WSaUpf6me0MPkmw29-tvj1G9hEKSKHqPjs8Gro5F6vpKFWtCnnF3WQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">First day cover for the 1948 Booker T. Washington stamp. Includes a picture of the Tuskegee Institute faculty in front of the Carnegie Library. <br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-40866350080447696482022-01-31T07:19:00.000-08:002022-01-31T07:19:43.938-08:00Iowa Carnegie Libraries on Postcards<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS8rK7mBp-EA5sQhgIcspqmX5yOybvCHcn4d7W3IMA_oJyHfqnRJlNAkERJU2_M7EektJIoCHrJjSAMsrCwAPnyaozsHHiZ8sljwhb66vOhWPICKaviFsxYfDCNd9yBkHhLtfru8f63nfxudCOIZL_MyLDWKrKkODH93zUZZolkx0-NxhggQlffrl4og=s550" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="550" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS8rK7mBp-EA5sQhgIcspqmX5yOybvCHcn4d7W3IMA_oJyHfqnRJlNAkERJU2_M7EektJIoCHrJjSAMsrCwAPnyaozsHHiZ8sljwhb66vOhWPICKaviFsxYfDCNd9yBkHhLtfru8f63nfxudCOIZL_MyLDWKrKkODH93zUZZolkx0-NxhggQlffrl4og=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iowa City, IA to South English, IA, April 17, 1905. <br />Message reads: "This is our library - a gift from Andrew Carnegie, that kind old Scotchman who has gladdened the hearts of so many young Americans by his munificent gifts."</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Iowa received grants from Andrew Carnegie to help build 101 public libraries in 99 communities and 7 academic libraries. This was the 4th highest number of grants received by any state nationwide. One or more postcard views exist for almost all of these libraries. Judy Aulik has one of the most complete collections of Iowa Carnegie library postcards. These are displayed on her <a href="https://www.aulik.info/">"Civic Pride in a Lost America: Library Postcards" website</a>. The Iowa images start with <a href="https://www.aulik.info/carnegie-ia">this link</a> and continue for multiple pages. I have a much more modest collection with one or more postcards for 51 of the libraries. All postcards shown in this blog post are from my collection.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.carnegielibrariesiowa.org/">Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project</a> (CLIP)is the most comprehensive source of information about Iowa's Carnegie libraries. There is a separate page on the website for each of the libraries. On that page is a link to "Images" for the library. These images often include the front and back of postcards which are described in detail. Among those images are many that depict postcards from my collection which I made available to the project. The CLIP is an amazing resource and is worthy of replication in other states.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZbiCjAYIt2hJ0czCgB14fqfuJsomVCSVpvEQxRsHkLeoVuq6PVqCiXugZDfBGj18Cbg8vB3nwfR1vuaXMtVysvZZHOf-uL3eBucTKOsR9WiGsfgXgtqRca7lbTXMx0VYV_9WJmpBqFNA3GMHOANtMArsy1_fF0jla6HRrG9hGegcnWnff84xYbMGEKA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="550" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZbiCjAYIt2hJ0czCgB14fqfuJsomVCSVpvEQxRsHkLeoVuq6PVqCiXugZDfBGj18Cbg8vB3nwfR1vuaXMtVysvZZHOf-uL3eBucTKOsR9WiGsfgXgtqRca7lbTXMx0VYV_9WJmpBqFNA3GMHOANtMArsy1_fF0jla6HRrG9hGegcnWnff84xYbMGEKA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fairfield, IA to Burlington, IA, Oct. 2, 1809. <br />In 1892, Fairfield, IA, received the first grant from Carnegie for a library west of PA.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="550" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJt7yAQFhSz0B3ALfb9NfP-skahQ1BywCaB_S7LS7Be9pw_s8zl8UyJlv1uVFa2WixxmSXdRD8IejUruxmOj5DEGjvWRVfvNLLWB34nVStB-vjB0f1W7fHnX795rfUXgZCEnVmxLjx1khAO0AizhMquIIyb6vlVBPVejM7pRMRwuq4PHieP7-p8jUTLw=s320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cedar Rapids, IA to Toledo, IA, Oct. 20, 1910. Cedar Rapids Public Library interior view.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVBA79eM5Z1j-Tl6jFSQzLaMV-ZTvhjqcoi_x_a5D-guoCaCqm7SNaaHZ2BkHfQZLHf2tYaAu9vksM2lWcAFW6nry7KcypLkmDFQ5nsiJxL2pgTNsLqX4Ht1uJKEHV-3okq5ZgUv47vvZemlJXAqcESd0wcnUn6e2XDWC8l3Sfq8GgUbvHpuTfY0v-LQ=s550" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="363" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVBA79eM5Z1j-Tl6jFSQzLaMV-ZTvhjqcoi_x_a5D-guoCaCqm7SNaaHZ2BkHfQZLHf2tYaAu9vksM2lWcAFW6nry7KcypLkmDFQ5nsiJxL2pgTNsLqX4Ht1uJKEHV-3okq5ZgUv47vvZemlJXAqcESd0wcnUn6e2XDWC8l3Sfq8GgUbvHpuTfY0v-LQ=s320" width="211" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sioux City, IA to Western Spring, IL, Nov. 29, 1909. Sioux City Public Library.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-58961611628925828422022-01-23T09:04:00.000-08:002022-08-02T12:16:47.782-07:00Edna Isabel Allyn and the Hawaii State Library <p> The significance of the nondescript postal card below rests with its connection to one of the most important people in the <a href="https://www.librarieshawaii.org/about-us/history/history-of-the-library/">history of the Hawaii State Library</a> – Edna Isabel Allyn (1861-1927). When this card was sent to Allyn by her former staff at the Brooklyn Sub Branch of the Cleveland Public Library, she had just become librarian of the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association. Allyn would transition this library into a free public library and then the Hawaii State Library. She would become Hawaii’s first State Librarian. The card is a pre-printed overdue book notice that has been adapted in a humorous way – “Please return yourself at once and avoid accruing our displeasure.” The postal card is dated June 14, 1907 and addressed to “The Truant”. It has no postage or postmark and was probably enclosed in another envelope for delivery to Honolulu.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5uQktC8KiEx64Ak9UxbqUD9FQ9W7JXmcwEpq5NDCBSmC-avzysvlKa5GUkILF2gv1fi0LNgNKzap0cRlGhBQEFwXOzTmpb-dgy0sN8SSkjmc6-MCNyr3_8xOZ_VhRi-ppImozlOkyW8ExWsxjzLb1hV1k2vuVw_MZttuxPGjLW6khnvVWfSDNWBOiBw=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="500" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5uQktC8KiEx64Ak9UxbqUD9FQ9W7JXmcwEpq5NDCBSmC-avzysvlKa5GUkILF2gv1fi0LNgNKzap0cRlGhBQEFwXOzTmpb-dgy0sN8SSkjmc6-MCNyr3_8xOZ_VhRi-ppImozlOkyW8ExWsxjzLb1hV1k2vuVw_MZttuxPGjLW6khnvVWfSDNWBOiBw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Honolulu Library & Reading Room Association was established in 1879 when Hawaii was still a country with a king and its own postal system. H. A. Parmelee was one of the founders of the library. This postal card was mailed locally in Honolulu on Oct. 31, 1892. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTD7w0pQA42RRKPMj_EtUwmmaoLFPA1y9yvEihIuM61E0q-IaJGYmXWVahaefF4RxF_L37adxyvx_QE_oqtZE1w8s346fUHEj5wro6X9ehIhfRf-XPpBrpgLHd8FnuYp7AirugMAgt094uEbNboUzmZU7i7Oy6RwbN_ISSz8AJNPkzkxALZQ1_FDXbiw=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="550" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTD7w0pQA42RRKPMj_EtUwmmaoLFPA1y9yvEihIuM61E0q-IaJGYmXWVahaefF4RxF_L37adxyvx_QE_oqtZE1w8s346fUHEj5wro6X9ehIhfRf-XPpBrpgLHd8FnuYp7AirugMAgt094uEbNboUzmZU7i7Oy6RwbN_ISSz8AJNPkzkxALZQ1_FDXbiw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz321ajdHNDld7FBk83ASMbmk3PZx2CWvQbb3OHLq6oXZXgOstFL0B5g-RQpckUfvPzjh_wj3cETX2udfz0IQWEij5-x6a9nqcRF9VyRKeXLb_n9pU8wbKjckQ_k19GVu5bhk85QFqhTiRy7MFOsNfhjw7-isN8oQ-fjHyNTU_iC9_GbJNlImCTxag_Q=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="550" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz321ajdHNDld7FBk83ASMbmk3PZx2CWvQbb3OHLq6oXZXgOstFL0B5g-RQpckUfvPzjh_wj3cETX2udfz0IQWEij5-x6a9nqcRF9VyRKeXLb_n9pU8wbKjckQ_k19GVu5bhk85QFqhTiRy7MFOsNfhjw7-isN8oQ-fjHyNTU_iC9_GbJNlImCTxag_Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Postcard shows the library in Honolulu directed by Edna Allyn. Message on the back reads in part: “The building on the left is the library. We hope for a better one some day.” Mailed from Honolulu, Hawaii to the Public Library in Newark, NJ, March 16, 1908. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjizGBj33SrFDG2MTZcLb5ggykOviteEAscS9CAEzhhJK4GYSQi3DBGSK-LtBYhXEZn6otVLTHz1RERhhAm43iPUH0GAE4c5PEw-VJ4Z2sRo58HjlRvyVdgEmawt44NlHTLaTYzPciiG_u8rViBLYeAX00O6CBRSqzhQUk78Adk-PJZBIW_ckKuJwfNdg=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="550" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjizGBj33SrFDG2MTZcLb5ggykOviteEAscS9CAEzhhJK4GYSQi3DBGSK-LtBYhXEZn6otVLTHz1RERhhAm43iPUH0GAE4c5PEw-VJ4Z2sRo58HjlRvyVdgEmawt44NlHTLaTYzPciiG_u8rViBLYeAX00O6CBRSqzhQUk78Adk-PJZBIW_ckKuJwfNdg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In 1909 the Hawaii Library and Reading Room Association transfered its assets to the newly formed Library of Hawaii which received a $100,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie for a building. That building opened (shown below) to the public on February 1, 1913. Edna Allyn was appointed the first librarian, a post she held until her death in 1927. The children's section of the library is named in her honor. Postcard mailed on March 5, 1931. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTC8_fIUVih719xw35t4z_Tal1avg2pFUeqe2ChqMuRPoDUabjhOpC2msA_0yrEQqBj9wnvlNFWc0guF1Qoj6VVAHmGF2JcOeqJMqAHzmP4YJ4OnPqrLB9XVs-EvFBWjupcks4lwmhIOsMvl_18Yx0hTTawU2kc0TolFcDDdNdNKsXHGjLryJFDHYfNQ=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="550" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTC8_fIUVih719xw35t4z_Tal1avg2pFUeqe2ChqMuRPoDUabjhOpC2msA_0yrEQqBj9wnvlNFWc0guF1Qoj6VVAHmGF2JcOeqJMqAHzmP4YJ4OnPqrLB9XVs-EvFBWjupcks4lwmhIOsMvl_18Yx0hTTawU2kc0TolFcDDdNdNKsXHGjLryJFDHYfNQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">After statehood in 1959 the Library of Hawaii became the Hawaii State Library.</div></div></div></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-9512743173013673072022-01-17T07:14:00.001-08:002022-02-18T08:19:11.266-08:00Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Postcard<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq90W8-MaGiA8l3Obo9B26z2VAIKDlgjniOXU7mcbdvHu7MQc8AEUB3-hb84hS4FH832KuTmywK2qWESKafDsnkoztikUaql8p14hBSq8rZEXTcFY6LOVtXvwR5UfdQEYIQ9Q_xO_0tRi_pLkRnXitihH1F_GTdEDvsFApJJm3Sy9MW1CdCRjZSasr4w=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="550" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq90W8-MaGiA8l3Obo9B26z2VAIKDlgjniOXU7mcbdvHu7MQc8AEUB3-hb84hS4FH832KuTmywK2qWESKafDsnkoztikUaql8p14hBSq8rZEXTcFY6LOVtXvwR5UfdQEYIQ9Q_xO_0tRi_pLkRnXitihH1F_GTdEDvsFApJJm3Sy9MW1CdCRjZSasr4w=w337-h211" width="337" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <a href="https://www.dclibrary.org/mlk?page=97">Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library</a> , Washington, DC's central public library, is one of the most significant and appropriate memorials to Martin Luther King, Jr. The Board of Library Trustees named the library in memory of King in 1971 before the <a href="https://www.dclibrary.org/node/741">new building opened on August 21, 1972</a>. The building was designed by world-famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The postcard above which shows the library was mailed in 1978. Based on the message on the back of the postcard it was probably sent by a library school student at the nearby Catholic University of America. The postcard was sent to a librarian in Geneva, Il. The message reads: "Here's a library postcard to add to your collection - or is it a friends? Anyway was down here today trying to find Maurice Tauber's <u>Technical Services in Libraries</u>. Do you believe it was out. BORING! which sums up most of my 15 credits - a letter will follow!" Two personal connections to me - library postcard collector and former library school student.</div><p></p><p>In 2020 the Library completed a <a href="https://www.dclibrary.org/mlkfuture">massive $211 million rehabilitation</a>. It still serves as an appropriate memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr.</p><div><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-2553524347119469852022-01-11T08:03:00.002-08:002022-03-14T06:34:34.375-07:00Librarians on a Postcard and Philippine Libraries<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcRCcJO_ULpbdaL6C3FjgosCqmyqEn_Fcm5Inv1d8cQHXq6XYVtIaj5LVcHi04t6dxQ8dumWB2K0J49_m1LyaExelEgRQALFd_QWep-AyYYC3nD7mr6QML2WIB3HeOXKU4WjsovbKqr34RtvvmBNAAVNzu1EtuTCh6ix7qU5omF3y8CCAYRZXt_r8c9g=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="550" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcRCcJO_ULpbdaL6C3FjgosCqmyqEn_Fcm5Inv1d8cQHXq6XYVtIaj5LVcHi04t6dxQ8dumWB2K0J49_m1LyaExelEgRQALFd_QWep-AyYYC3nD7mr6QML2WIB3HeOXKU4WjsovbKqr34RtvvmBNAAVNzu1EtuTCh6ix7qU5omF3y8CCAYRZXt_r8c9g=w342-h215" width="342" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7EjHtE652fm1yh6NraqgdFciEU0WRodhdFEf2THQLQhe-2vUy6RYL31SFAEzE6Uae8cAuZaXXyJwC-G2WCznNGiO9UamsM6LSDMv4ExCLK6mkFtynDFItNUjevt8gAQWm-BmtfqtGC_QezJolKhMJeIkkHuLXav5xuT0ntNvlZR9k50xpbuJn9JWk_g=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="550" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7EjHtE652fm1yh6NraqgdFciEU0WRodhdFEf2THQLQhe-2vUy6RYL31SFAEzE6Uae8cAuZaXXyJwC-G2WCznNGiO9UamsM6LSDMv4ExCLK6mkFtynDFItNUjevt8gAQWm-BmtfqtGC_QezJolKhMJeIkkHuLXav5xuT0ntNvlZR9k50xpbuJn9JWk_g=w353-h223" width="353" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Librarians are rarely depicted on postcards so it was amazing to find one that depicted 24 librarians. It was even more amazing to discover the postcard's connection to two important librarians in Philippine library history. The librarians depicted on the postcard were the entire 1922 class of the N. Y. State Library School. That's the library school founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia University and then moved to the New York State Library in Albany, NY. The library school subsequently moved back to Columbia University. The postcard is a Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) and the photographer was Gustave Lorey who operated a prominent photography studio in Albany. The address side on the postcard is where the two Phillipine librarians come into the story. The postcard is addressed to Miss Mary Polk, Bureau of Science Library, Manila, PI. It is signed "Sincerely yours, Isidoro Saniel". It is dated Mar. 26, 1921 but is not stamped or postmarked. This means it was probably mailed inside an envelope to Manila. I was able to locate a great article on the internet about Mary Polk and her contribution to Philippine librarianship. It was written by Bradley Brazzeal and is titiled <a href="https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ul-publications/27/">"Science Librarianship in Colonial Philippines: Mary Polk and the Philippin Bureau of Science Library, 1903-1924"</a>. Brazzeal includes a quote in his article that Polk could "righly be called the mother of Philippine Library Science". He indicates also that the Philippine Association of Academic Research Librarians continues to provide a scholarship in the name of Polk that "honors the life and accomplishments of Mary Polk, the first librarian of the University of the Philippines, who started the first formal library science training program in the same university". Brazzeal's article also explains the connection between Mary Polk and Isidoro Saniel. Saniel was one of several individuals in the Philippines who were sent to library schools in the United States for formal library training. Saniel was sent to the N. Y. State Library School. She returned to play a prominent role in Philippine librarianship, and has written a history of the Philippine Library Association which she helped found. [Saniel, Isidoro. “Forty-Nine Years of the Philippine Library Association.” The Journal of Library History (1966-1972), vol. 7, no. 4, University of Texas Press, 1972, pp. 301–12, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/25540372">http://www.jstor.org/stable/25540372</a>.] It is likely that Saniel is one of the class of 1922 depicted on the postcard. The records of the New York State Library School are now located in the Archival Collections of Columbia University Libraries. An enterprising researcher might be able to identify the other members of the class of 1922.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012/07/early-aurora-il-library-workers.html">Another postcards showing librarians on a postcard.</a></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-83542214435618837552022-01-09T09:23:00.003-08:002022-01-09T09:39:01.400-08:00Libraries and Trolleys on Postcards<p> In the golden age of picture postcards both libraries and trolleys (streetcars) were common subjects of the cards. Postcards which feature both libraries and trolleys, however, are uncommon. I find those postcards especially interesting and appealing. Public libraries in large cities are more likely to be featured on postcards which also include one or more trolleys. The Boston Public Library is featured on more postcards that include a trolley by far than any other library. Not far behind is the New York Public Library. Below are some of the postcards in this category from my personal collection of library postcards.</p><p>The first card features the Boston Public Library. It is interesting because of the message on the address side of the card. It reads "Public Library. Note small street car. I have seen the cars of New York, Boston, Phila., Chicago, Norfolk, Jamestown, Mil. but none half as good and big as Mpls. [Minneapolis]." The postcard was posted on Nov. 8, 1909 on the U.S.S Missouri. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggy0yoEQfZiYTWTt284x4tgaUP7VGS0sn5Kgyi3S2WmxJgKkhI0x1GYXAAn5a1tRZudHN6fsl4ANeobESUYG6C2orVeyOyE2RWZvA58qtgA10bRPTtEHvC9iGTZlAkzlRiPgo2MIW0rCFfvvqZAWXpdllTuh6AUytt5O9NFLVwLbqGuSBaLFISAnwQjw=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="550" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggy0yoEQfZiYTWTt284x4tgaUP7VGS0sn5Kgyi3S2WmxJgKkhI0x1GYXAAn5a1tRZudHN6fsl4ANeobESUYG6C2orVeyOyE2RWZvA58qtgA10bRPTtEHvC9iGTZlAkzlRiPgo2MIW0rCFfvvqZAWXpdllTuh6AUytt5O9NFLVwLbqGuSBaLFISAnwQjw=w401-h253" width="401" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisCECf1TNHsaOmNG60yVEMo7ekJ08zk7peKhjQFTZSar4VitSkiiqOIr5JohI0YCjSKEax2jnHL5j99-o_HxHMQk2Eu7ImUDgfTbWT1yv8pwfEw4q86Oi5iFJ4zlxg9SBWoKUbHdDdwASS7YHyzYta9Yy8CnzjX503_HnZAs8dHDQegV_SIOak3DGnQw=s550" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="550" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisCECf1TNHsaOmNG60yVEMo7ekJ08zk7peKhjQFTZSar4VitSkiiqOIr5JohI0YCjSKEax2jnHL5j99-o_HxHMQk2Eu7ImUDgfTbWT1yv8pwfEw4q86Oi5iFJ4zlxg9SBWoKUbHdDdwASS7YHyzYta9Yy8CnzjX503_HnZAs8dHDQegV_SIOak3DGnQw=w392-h245" width="392" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghdWYyTBppwVW-JHFjMK38jJiwJ2ExIESKB9QhuO1NWuhACLqi4VRqOzaqdQsU_sAyIojVezMT2DiJ91cuJq6dF5UvXYhhJRBOBQrlA5d7KAcrj3IM_U0IoRtjImwdUpFPs3VPPzK73eisjHj-xtYpgXTuX8UqU5puq3N2tNn-53T_Q2jPlQ_lhVyBeg=s550" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="550" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghdWYyTBppwVW-JHFjMK38jJiwJ2ExIESKB9QhuO1NWuhACLqi4VRqOzaqdQsU_sAyIojVezMT2DiJ91cuJq6dF5UvXYhhJRBOBQrlA5d7KAcrj3IM_U0IoRtjImwdUpFPs3VPPzK73eisjHj-xtYpgXTuX8UqU5puq3N2tNn-53T_Q2jPlQ_lhVyBeg=w428-h271" width="428" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;">Unposted card features the Carnegie Library in Stillwater, MN and a trolley from the Twin City Lines.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMjO334b8uLNwPXN2kAbzEoqEiZOXcL3rVLbc3ckktRr9w4S7jIdXyhGvr_hDpiYyq6zOj9aC5pEPYPXHjlTXQjrs_ge38ul-tXtkRfclqKRTKBiNtMu5dsrRHNnc3irNjJZVI3fLwa9FvpsL4gZWXB1FAOp5yGAi-lSThbx3rgEgCZLUMSCnDeMVhgg=s1624" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1624" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMjO334b8uLNwPXN2kAbzEoqEiZOXcL3rVLbc3ckktRr9w4S7jIdXyhGvr_hDpiYyq6zOj9aC5pEPYPXHjlTXQjrs_ge38ul-tXtkRfclqKRTKBiNtMu5dsrRHNnc3irNjJZVI3fLwa9FvpsL4gZWXB1FAOp5yGAi-lSThbx3rgEgCZLUMSCnDeMVhgg=w395-h256" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multiple trolleys are featured on this postcard for Ashville, NC which was posted on Oct. 31, 1907. The library is the castle like building on the right.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLyTTgV4wG5HpVNu4gJ7xerxeGNUKCE0GWn35uzzVJ5mI4Zrmjw0btZ5Oz24sDBHFBOmhrtc_hNq7IE19ZgA2qZ3MjXVVpVbCYZ-viXob2tsGsRN9894O9fwx3RMeMrJ06FRfM_ySUQv80ViCVAj_QfSLypr7Ge9jJMKAdd7qEs3wAEa_mgZwk0M0abw=s550" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="550" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLyTTgV4wG5HpVNu4gJ7xerxeGNUKCE0GWn35uzzVJ5mI4Zrmjw0btZ5Oz24sDBHFBOmhrtc_hNq7IE19ZgA2qZ3MjXVVpVbCYZ-viXob2tsGsRN9894O9fwx3RMeMrJ06FRfM_ySUQv80ViCVAj_QfSLypr7Ge9jJMKAdd7qEs3wAEa_mgZwk0M0abw=w418-h268" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unposted Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) featuring the Milwaukee Public Library and Museum. Trolley is in front of library on lower right.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_HDBcQCG4WOJXGWz42f1YrPdwI8idXPl7Uy15l0drcTjsyEvsdpwfsTbfcUbLi0YJhgiDLE3LpgixyfmMeU5gaiTpS_2OET9O96LfAyIKxGtz2ku8paWYjdD-jOn8Ev6pGjJlOPWiVVFdzvavHVhecmrCetMCTl7zCyhGdLnGpFsKBArzIpzK6hImFQ=s550" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="550" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_HDBcQCG4WOJXGWz42f1YrPdwI8idXPl7Uy15l0drcTjsyEvsdpwfsTbfcUbLi0YJhgiDLE3LpgixyfmMeU5gaiTpS_2OET9O96LfAyIKxGtz2ku8paWYjdD-jOn8Ev6pGjJlOPWiVVFdzvavHVhecmrCetMCTl7zCyhGdLnGpFsKBArzIpzK6hImFQ=w455-h286" width="455" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four trolleys appear on this Chicago Public Library postcard which was posted Sept. 29, 1910. Message on back reads "This picture does not do justice to the building. It is some place."<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-78508596499966864122022-01-06T07:28:00.003-08:002022-03-14T06:34:57.401-07:00Two Additional Library People on Postage Stamps<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio1fV-psLjKIl5bW7j7Pp-6VYZ8byuTFaQYOw5W6pIcA2TL5jSt03s7C4ojMXldKzdsw3gwil_wg9DG7TTt-JB034Dcq-gGBdnFFSdnGOvnl6-tUmibFf93zIrlHcZzP-idMOFn4AmFL8woSxT4vtkCD57zKaq27X30baLwjNroxmiTvEfZFBTXfrhkw=s1539" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="1539" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio1fV-psLjKIl5bW7j7Pp-6VYZ8byuTFaQYOw5W6pIcA2TL5jSt03s7C4ojMXldKzdsw3gwil_wg9DG7TTt-JB034Dcq-gGBdnFFSdnGOvnl6-tUmibFf93zIrlHcZzP-idMOFn4AmFL8woSxT4vtkCD57zKaq27X30baLwjNroxmiTvEfZFBTXfrhkw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I’ve been collecting libraries and library people on postage stamps for more than 25 years. I haven’t been as aggressive in my pursuit of these stamps in recent years so I was slow to realize the connection to libraries of two of the stamps in the United State Postal Service “Voices of the Harlem Renaissance” issue of 2020. Both individuals on the stamps had strong connections to the New York Public Library (NYPL). The first person was Nella Larsen (1891-1964) who was honored as a novelist, but also was a librarian at the NYPL. She worked at three different branch libraries – the 135th Street Branch, the Seward Park Branch, and the Countee Cullen Branch. She was the first black woman to graduate from the NYPL Library School. Although not honored as a librarian, Larsen was the first (and only) person with professional librarian credentials to appear on a United States postage stamp. Wikipedia has a comprehensive <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nella_Larsen ">entry for Nella Larsen</a>. The <a href="https://littleknownblacklibrarianfacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/nella-larsen-author-and-librarian.html ">“Little Known Black Librarian Facts” blog</a> has an entry for Larsen with an excellent list of sources. Bob Sink’s <a href="https://nypl-librarians.blogspot.com/2011/03/ernestine-rose-1880-1961.html">“NYPL Librarians” blog</a> has an interesting post about Ernestine Rose’s role in the integration of branch library staffs including her connection to Larsen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938) was the second person on a stamp with a library connection. The USPS description of his contributions: “By tirelessly collecting books, documents, artwork, and other materials, Schomburg rescued black history from obscurity and preserved priceless cultural knowledge for future generations.” His collection was acquired by the New York Public Library and was the foundation for what became the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Wikipedia has a nice<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Alfonso_Schomburg "> entry for Schomburg</a>. It is noteworthy that the previously mentioned Ernestine Rose also played a significant role in acquiring and building the Schomburg collection at NYPL. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Library people especially librarians are rarely recognized on postage stamps for their contributions as library people. Those who are on postage stamps are usually recognized for some other contribution. On my <a href="http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/">Library History Buff website</a> which I no longer update because of obsolete software I have several sections devoted to the topic of library people on postage stamps. They include <a href="http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliophilately-people.htm">“Library People on Postage Stamps – An Introduction”</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliophilately-librarian-stamp.htm">“A Postage Stamp to Honor America’s Librarians”</a>, <a href="http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliophilately-people-us.htm">“U.S. Library People on Postage Stamps”</a>, and <a href="http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliophilately-people-world.htm">“World Library People on Postage Stamps”</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As a collector of libraries and library people on postage stamps I have benefited in my search for these stamps by my membership in the <a href="https://americantopical.org/">American Topical Association</a> and the <a href="https://www.graphics-stamps.org/">Graphics Philately Association</a>. The Graphics Philately Association publishes a comprehensive list of these and other graphics related postage stamps titled Winnegrad’s Printing on Stamps compiled by Bruce L. Johnson. The Graphics Philately Association also publishes a quarterly publication titled Philateli-Graphics which includes listing of new stamp issues of graphic interest which includes libraries.</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-82020998627810095902022-01-02T12:42:00.001-08:002022-01-05T09:37:02.092-08:00Community Advertising Covers (Envelopes)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTOh9A7vsCG-MiBhS_Y2OOdjxnxQr5JsLL7fSzzxGXI30v0He4i1eVuSUdwmGe-6R9psd0JOOYQlylc9BPuyH_ga-5aNMKWniIioKTe4gcalsCQTstIlifjobLlqm4EtvJTeTTdxSaKOsDzv9e48GIdaUJ5bUtotWcGxH5qar9vdEflZ_vjpRvdsSfYQ=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="550" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTOh9A7vsCG-MiBhS_Y2OOdjxnxQr5JsLL7fSzzxGXI30v0He4i1eVuSUdwmGe-6R9psd0JOOYQlylc9BPuyH_ga-5aNMKWniIioKTe4gcalsCQTstIlifjobLlqm4EtvJTeTTdxSaKOsDzv9e48GIdaUJ5bUtotWcGxH5qar9vdEflZ_vjpRvdsSfYQ=w425-h238" width="425" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyZd3dQ6bVFeZRqNfWg8uqhcl-AdLEOFoQjhbgCB73o2smiLRySERa0-W7r2j4EgOB0aK4_Hr6zgKlmsnaIS5Zp1QGO1c8m4mVLZwma-VJMDc0SFPeHKeCqQuUCrZCgpY6lWbRSX9Dz90IBGIRAKpwwQFGCS-8kOdpEpcZsp9sh2CqsobaJp8oRjD1VA=s550" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="550" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyZd3dQ6bVFeZRqNfWg8uqhcl-AdLEOFoQjhbgCB73o2smiLRySERa0-W7r2j4EgOB0aK4_Hr6zgKlmsnaIS5Zp1QGO1c8m4mVLZwma-VJMDc0SFPeHKeCqQuUCrZCgpY6lWbRSX9Dz90IBGIRAKpwwQFGCS-8kOdpEpcZsp9sh2CqsobaJp8oRjD1VA=w419-h234" width="419" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sparta, WI</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I’ve been a collector of envelopes (called covers by philatelists) related to libraries for more than 25 years. In my efforts to collect these I discovered a category of covers called “community advertising covers”. These covers usually include multiple photographs or illustrations depicting prominent buildings and geographic features of a community (usually on the front of the cover) and written commentary extolling the virtues of living or doing business in the community (usually on the back of the cover). My personal collection of these covers numbers over 70 including examples from 18 states. I’m interested in these covers because an image of a library building is often featured on the cover, and the community's library is often touted as one of the advantages of living or doing business in the community in the commentary. These covers are also nice items to include in my philatelic exhibits about libraries. <p></p><p>When I first began collecting these covers I came across an article from the Fall 1993 issue of <i>The Heliograph</i>, the journal of the Postal History Foundation in Tucson, AZ, which described a donation to the Foundation of community advertising covers. The donation was from Charles Nettleship Jr. who had amassed a collection of 1204 community advertising covers (145 of these were photocopies). According to the article all states except Hawaii were represented in the collection. The largest percentage came from the Midwest (43%) followed by the East (30), then the West (20%) and finally the South (7%). The article indicated that the largest number of covers were from the 1901 to 1910 period with the earliest from 1800 and the latest from 1975.</p><p>I have 18 Wisconsin community advertising covers and I thought an article about these covers might be a possibility for the <i>Badger Postal History</i> journal of the Wisconsin Postal History Society of which I am a member. While working on the article I contacted Valerie Kittel, Librarian of the Postal History Foundation to see if the Foundation still had the covers. She indicated that the collection had been sold. The good news, however, was that along with the collection came an index card file in which Nettleship had meticulously described each cover. This information had been transferred by the Postal History Foundation to a printed document which listed all the covers by state. Valerie graciously sent me the part of the document which included the entries for Wisconsin. With this information I was able to substantially improve my article “Wisconsin’s Community Advertising Covers” which was included in the November 2021 issue of <i>Badger Postal History</i>. I have included selected examples of community advertising covers from my collection in this blog post.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhP8l2F7ADh6ob0x9XJDTNoIJvbXd7907vsMC17P7MU0KmtVnaoyNA8ehnxtaxvtwGd5sVLzAi72RTTvc_kW3MBlO59dYsw5LQYo8H5EB_ISAH3RhF1pHrJ_-oW797g4at4FWvqpfmmQIywvwQcpZOUaj0cRPXAT5gKCIR-9J9ygGxCRo5G5ihxuNBN8g=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="600" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhP8l2F7ADh6ob0x9XJDTNoIJvbXd7907vsMC17P7MU0KmtVnaoyNA8ehnxtaxvtwGd5sVLzAi72RTTvc_kW3MBlO59dYsw5LQYo8H5EB_ISAH3RhF1pHrJ_-oW797g4at4FWvqpfmmQIywvwQcpZOUaj0cRPXAT5gKCIR-9J9ygGxCRo5G5ihxuNBN8g=w427-h243" width="427" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7YkVL3bCS-KP1SPaoIFOLJRQ6czYPudlvp-YJdmmUJOCW6qYBTJaeA7_IWOQLN8uoEjpvpVd0o3S5pjXOod6vkNnnnyoKs57Bg1OyppQG7pDtstdUNmVFhKohZaXEi2-sRJ-BAOJe4NODXsYizg41ZFBL82fHqaeTAnrxC0MD7iBIl8IjRwhOtvWS0w=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="600" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7YkVL3bCS-KP1SPaoIFOLJRQ6czYPudlvp-YJdmmUJOCW6qYBTJaeA7_IWOQLN8uoEjpvpVd0o3S5pjXOod6vkNnnnyoKs57Bg1OyppQG7pDtstdUNmVFhKohZaXEi2-sRJ-BAOJe4NODXsYizg41ZFBL82fHqaeTAnrxC0MD7iBIl8IjRwhOtvWS0w=w410-h204" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corsicana, TX <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyp-y-WAf-pumKRpOrKbNf44uvIa4WPB4mEKM2YsooRv4h4x8SsZ46Et4oS9VMqZinLBkbjYW-2a1wYuB3Uxz4_VGvg2J7eR10-wMMFW8wfvICEWOqtFgI-C7LNL-zSGwK8IbRWQpZnRM33UoAtTEBmyENVottON5Ff51RYyiMv7lRwiiQA4-oswidOQ=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="600" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyp-y-WAf-pumKRpOrKbNf44uvIa4WPB4mEKM2YsooRv4h4x8SsZ46Et4oS9VMqZinLBkbjYW-2a1wYuB3Uxz4_VGvg2J7eR10-wMMFW8wfvICEWOqtFgI-C7LNL-zSGwK8IbRWQpZnRM33UoAtTEBmyENVottON5Ff51RYyiMv7lRwiiQA4-oswidOQ=w399-h230" width="399" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9qYYdUgBomFnZKjODWZiuqAYN9aVwtjo4FYdTjpHxvxWoxLP_uDmt6jG_kNG57RP41atJnZGUlUdXK-eWQi1L1ea12QKJP32LyYIcXIyjxPA72Nf9R7LBxLqOb2BjY1d8ndi767inx3jUTdnciOAkxrL0jWEFImnVY4V7Qkhs4Q8c9c9Mn4t3lYD-jA=s600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9qYYdUgBomFnZKjODWZiuqAYN9aVwtjo4FYdTjpHxvxWoxLP_uDmt6jG_kNG57RP41atJnZGUlUdXK-eWQi1L1ea12QKJP32LyYIcXIyjxPA72Nf9R7LBxLqOb2BjY1d8ndi767inx3jUTdnciOAkxrL0jWEFImnVY4V7Qkhs4Q8c9c9Mn4t3lYD-jA=w401-h225" width="401" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maquoket, IA</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-74097656984982351052021-12-30T12:22:00.008-08:002022-08-02T12:18:55.102-07:00St. Louis Mercantile Library 125<p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span>The St.
Louis Mercantile Library celebrated its 125<sup>th</sup> anniversary in 2021.
According to its <a href="https://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/about-the-library/index.html">website</a>: “Founded in 1846 and chartered by the State of Missouri in that year, the
St. Louis Mercantile Library is the oldest general library in continuous
existence West of the Mississippi River.”
The library is now located on the campus of the University of Missouri –
St. Louis. </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">Mercantile
libraries are one of the major types of membership libraries. They were started
by businessmen in behalf of young merchants’ clerks embarking on their careers.
They began in Boston and New York in 1820 but were eventually established in
most major cities in America including St. Louis. I have a philatelic exhibit
featuring America’s membership libraries and mercantile libraries constitute a
major component of the exhibit. I have a number of artifacts in the exhibit
relating to the St. Louis Mercantile Library, some of which are shown
below. I have a </span><a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2011/08/st-louis-mercantile-library-bookplate.html" style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">previous blog post</a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;"> which
discusses the bookplates of the Mercantile Library. I also have a </span><a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2015/04/st-louis-mercantile-library.html" style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">blog post</a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;"> about my visit to the
library in 2015.</span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmHmr0Gxz6G-2s9EAAKHrCRHn0sOnY0eLCBgOwxMqe8aARCJZreiPz46Zo5SJx2y_nMhjNQXj1a2HbX6gsBZUfd9_pj3c5KvXJ3F3X6Jg4M23Yxe4mnGa_DgnCE7VUClAJeSBQm-WlDueHyh1kxPz6hQrkMmSRPjlH5_u4jtelhtLECr_7PK_BlKgD3A=s550" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="550" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmHmr0Gxz6G-2s9EAAKHrCRHn0sOnY0eLCBgOwxMqe8aARCJZreiPz46Zo5SJx2y_nMhjNQXj1a2HbX6gsBZUfd9_pj3c5KvXJ3F3X6Jg4M23Yxe4mnGa_DgnCE7VUClAJeSBQm-WlDueHyh1kxPz6hQrkMmSRPjlH5_u4jtelhtLECr_7PK_BlKgD3A=w459-h221" width="459" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Life membership certificate for William E. Ware dated 1855. <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSUcf9yh62OxIc-eI0_5D96tPPXmO38iykeLc63r4ym812DNBnzBUcPS1h57an_z44XRuz9_YFHpqvaImCUVVDEY9XhTtve3QFfH2xeL6ZtGhclSBG3-AzmsEOF6DtBGElVuP0xl1-LMU4SlgoV9y4wDuH0HPgH_-t4bf_k8XPWPo0CyQROlGQUaM3bA=s513" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="300" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSUcf9yh62OxIc-eI0_5D96tPPXmO38iykeLc63r4ym812DNBnzBUcPS1h57an_z44XRuz9_YFHpqvaImCUVVDEY9XhTtve3QFfH2xeL6ZtGhclSBG3-AzmsEOF6DtBGElVuP0xl1-LMU4SlgoV9y4wDuH0HPgH_-t4bf_k8XPWPo0CyQROlGQUaM3bA=w219-h375" width="219" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1895 postal card listing services and membership terms.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirQkitTpNLLD93bNMS5rZePbk9XYoWS85iFBEGUV3niPS4soePTgUhc2Sw37s_C0vMfrUIK2ngdts6b28VhKbXh7FBmagordahCNSCM7F-UR92n7vKCAI0reRAuK1eA325W7kausjjfbB7Sf-c0vFpLV-jtrvxc2OLUCQyymPyawYEo-yDARqNKJ2PWg=s500" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="500" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirQkitTpNLLD93bNMS5rZePbk9XYoWS85iFBEGUV3niPS4soePTgUhc2Sw37s_C0vMfrUIK2ngdts6b28VhKbXh7FBmagordahCNSCM7F-UR92n7vKCAI0reRAuK1eA325W7kausjjfbB7Sf-c0vFpLV-jtrvxc2OLUCQyymPyawYEo-yDARqNKJ2PWg=w399-h227" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stampless mourning cover sent to the St. Louis Mercantile Library on Sept. 7, 1850.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-16529971671504535272021-12-28T13:00:00.003-08:002022-08-01T11:45:11.760-07:00Smithsonian 175<p>It would be a shame to leave 2021 without acknowledging the <a href="https://www.si.edu/175">175th anniversary of the Smithsonian</a> Institution, one of America’s great cultural institutions. On August 10, 1846, the U.S. Senate passed the act organizing the Smithsonian Institution, which was signed into law by President James K. Polk. I wrote a previous post about Charles Coffin Jewett who was the first librarian of the Smithsonian. Jewett thought the Smithsonian should be a national library, but the Smithsonian’s secretary disagreed. This led to Jewett’s dismissal in 1855. The iconic Smithsonian building known as the “Castle” was actually designed to include a library and reading room. In 1866 the Smithsonian’s library collection was moved to the Library of Congress and became known as the “Smithsonian Deposit”. The Smithsonian eventually reestablished a library of its own which is now the <a href="https://www.si.edu/unit/smithsonian-libraries-archives ">Smithsonian Libraries and Archives</a>. The Smithsonian presents multiple opportunities to the collector of postal artifacts. These include items related to the postal history of the Smithsonian, items related to the three postage stamps issued by the United States Postal System, and postcards. I have examples of all of these in my personal collection. Some are shown below. For postcard collectors, there is an exceptional section of the Smithsonian website titled <a href="https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/postcard/postcard-history">“Greetings from the Smithsonian” </a>which combines the history of the Smithsonian with the history of postcards. You will need to click on the Menu at the bottom of the introductory page to see the full expanse of the history.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw67eCaosXRf3gvQOlXeEAaBg4jG8RhXKCLazqVpF_Vx_1pYrhRrHO905dSr10LmFfjcckPpMnvSN4kUxPsdfycGEOx-OUTSlE1jok3a1nmW7jR0RWSPLr1TlW2nvX1P_t8_lW84fY4-RTjocKVOgD6BFPkhTlIwUUVBI6IxQwe1XIoJWyPhA81Ny3Aw=s1500" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1500" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw67eCaosXRf3gvQOlXeEAaBg4jG8RhXKCLazqVpF_Vx_1pYrhRrHO905dSr10LmFfjcckPpMnvSN4kUxPsdfycGEOx-OUTSlE1jok3a1nmW7jR0RWSPLr1TlW2nvX1P_t8_lW84fY4-RTjocKVOgD6BFPkhTlIwUUVBI6IxQwe1XIoJWyPhA81Ny3Aw=w364-h207" width="364" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover circa 1870s mailed by Smithsonian to Chicago</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYY0bzmjx5czSDt_iAH-Un8_qXvWRyXfv1VQWueZNu5jCKR1EeWVOZMb8NUKENIK-SX_wIYbnszrixHUzb1_FCNrEvkf7aGlrX5vbyMLHem3x-zeKfuewxuvp0g4ayqKgdeJk9K3qHXMceTQIxH4Tf79oP3SX1UdZDULkUAKwwKgTQxm4YTMrVKKTeWQ=s1500" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1500" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYY0bzmjx5czSDt_iAH-Un8_qXvWRyXfv1VQWueZNu5jCKR1EeWVOZMb8NUKENIK-SX_wIYbnszrixHUzb1_FCNrEvkf7aGlrX5vbyMLHem3x-zeKfuewxuvp0g4ayqKgdeJk9K3qHXMceTQIxH4Tf79oP3SX1UdZDULkUAKwwKgTQxm4YTMrVKKTeWQ=w384-h220" width="384" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Day Cover for 1996 stamp combined with 1946 stamp</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEvA4_DLXxebXP1Rfxl26ClRb8ZNYvLJCgQEC0uJgYDLzq0ZzixkN4OarOu0NjYtYyJwc1nh6DDSEpXx-morXW-dF-CcIMqVzkoQrfQvjRve5djLSLchkl-n1dby3vhzOkJ0PfQ_GkiNBC0li2qIIPhvxl-9ViQfzHtEcJDDTKssGW-oQ1AFb9jHDigg=s1500" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1500" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEvA4_DLXxebXP1Rfxl26ClRb8ZNYvLJCgQEC0uJgYDLzq0ZzixkN4OarOu0NjYtYyJwc1nh6DDSEpXx-morXW-dF-CcIMqVzkoQrfQvjRve5djLSLchkl-n1dby3vhzOkJ0PfQ_GkiNBC0li2qIIPhvxl-9ViQfzHtEcJDDTKssGW-oQ1AFb9jHDigg=w415-h236" width="415" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Day Cover for 1980 stamp</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-74607437422132946572021-12-27T12:18:00.007-08:002022-01-05T09:41:18.038-08:00Library Philately 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixhOz2UNKEvVTwjfBIqlb3VwFVMCN7rsH79ifBhMYL7y6jf7AaI6_NB2WO9tb4NewlbYJq_5orVEZXDqavEXWQweKiEDwyZB7jItSrRoJ3Xtx2cg_w-fOFC9K52Xo1nsDoyiMaqvBt28JGI7-u6Zqe7IQCrxtfJeiOLW_N3t6sGcVxCQhXcO84quOXAw=s1200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixhOz2UNKEvVTwjfBIqlb3VwFVMCN7rsH79ifBhMYL7y6jf7AaI6_NB2WO9tb4NewlbYJq_5orVEZXDqavEXWQweKiEDwyZB7jItSrRoJ3Xtx2cg_w-fOFC9K52Xo1nsDoyiMaqvBt28JGI7-u6Zqe7IQCrxtfJeiOLW_N3t6sGcVxCQhXcO84quOXAw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>The year 2021 was a good year if you were a collector or exhibitor of library philately which I am. The year 2020 was a bust for philatelic exhibiting but it provided an opportunity to revise and expand existing exhibits which I did.</p><p>I have been collecting postal items related to libraries since 1995 and exhibiting those items since 2003. One of the first library postal artifacts that I began collecting was first day covers featuring the 1982 “America’s Libraries” stamp. The American Philatelic Society establishes the rules for philatelic exhibiting which allow several different types of exhibits. One of those types is for illustrated mail including first day coves. My first exhibit of first day covers and other artifacts related to the “America’s Libraries” stamp took place several years ago. Philatelic exhibits are housed in special exhibit frames that hold 16 letter size sheets, and my first exhibit was housed in 4 frames. In 2021 I completely remounted the exhibit and expanded it to 6 frames. I was able to show the new exhibit at the Minnesota Stamp Expo in Minneapolis in July 2021, the Great American Stamp Show (GASS) in Chicago in August 2021, and the WISCOPEX stamp show in New Berlin, WI in October 2021. Exhibits at stamp shows are judged individually against prescribed criteria by a panel of judges certified by the American Philatelic Society. Exhibits receive an award level based on how well the exhibit does against those criteria. Award levels are: large gold, gold, large vermeil, vermeil, large silver, silver, silver bronze, bronze, and certificate. At Minnesota, the exhibit received a gold award, at GASS a large vermeil award, and at WISCOPEX the Best of Show award.</p><p>Another type of philatelic exhibit is called “display”, and this type allows the inclusion of non-philatelic artifacts in the exhibit. Most of my exhibits fall into this type. In 2021 I exhibited a two frame exhibit titled “Melvil Dewey – American Library Pioneer and Social Reformer” for the first time. I had initially developed the exhibit for the Rockford, Illinois stamp show which is limited to 2, 3, and 4 frame exhibits. That show was cancelled in 2020. This exhibit was shown at the Minnesota Stamp Expo and GASS. At Minnesota it received a large vermeil award and at GASS it received a vermeil award.</p><p>I have included postal artifacts related to membership libraries in the United States in many of my display type exhibits over the years. In 2015 I developed a 5 frame exhibit exclusively about the different types of membership libraries. I later expanded the exhibit to 6 frames. In 2021 I completely revised the exhibit and expanded it to 8 frames under the title “America’s Membership Libraries 1731-1910”. I showed the revised exhibit for the first time at the Omaha Stamp Show in September and again at the Chicagopex Stamp Show in November. At Omaha the exhibit received a large gold award and at Chicagopex a gold award.</p><p>The United States authorized the use of government issued postal cards in 1873. These were pre-stamped and cost only 1 cent. Libraries immediately began using these cards for a number of library activities such as overdue notices, reserve notices, and gift acknowledgements. Melvil Dewey advocated for a postal card the same size as a library catalog card, and in 1898 the United States Post Office issued a “library size” postal card. I have collected examples of the use of this card by libraries for many years, and I developed a one frame exhibit which I titled appropriately “Library Uses of Melvil Dewey’s Postal Card”. I have shown the exhibit at several shows in the past and at the invitation of the United Postal Stationery Society I showed it again in 2021 at the Philatelic Show in Boxborough, MA in September. The exhibit received a gold award.</p><p>A good year for library philately indeed!</p><p>The links below lead to other blog posts about by library philatelic exhibits.</p><p><a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-toot-my-own-horn-opportunity.html">https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-toot-my-own-horn-opportunity.html</a></p><p><a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2015/04/philatelic-gold-and-vermeil-in-st-louis.html">https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2015/04/philatelic-gold-and-vermeil-in-st-louis.html</a></p><p><a href="https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2016/04/philatelic-exhibit-about-library-of.html">https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2016/04/philatelic-exhibit-about-library-of.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Larry T. Nixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10859160864287059311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196388063768443379.post-20547871127273877452017-05-05T17:07:00.002-07:002022-02-18T08:22:16.044-08:00The Great Falls (MT) Public Library and Alma Smith Jacobs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Researching a recent acquisition to my postal librariana collection I discovered the story of African American librarian Alma Smith Jacobs (1916-1997) of Montana. The postal artifact is an envelope (shown above) with an image of the interior of the Carnegie Library in Great Falls, MT covering the entire face of the envelope. The back of the envelope which was mailed on December 2, 1917 has the address information. The Great Falls Public Library has an excellent <a href="http://www.greatfallslibrary.org/?p=library-history">history of the library</a> on its website. It was there that I learned that after serving as a catalog librarian for eight years Alma Jacobs became head librarian in 1954, a post she held until 1973. She left Great Falls to become the Montana State Librarian in Helena where she ended her library career in 1981. She was the first African American to hold that post. While in Great Falls she led the effort which resulted in the replacement of the Carnegie Library with a new library building in 1967. The Women’s History Matters website has an excellent <a href="http://montanawomenshistory.org/alma-smith-jacobs-beloved-librarian-tireless-activist/">overview of Jacobs’ contributions</a> to library and community service in Montana. In an unusual coincidence of timing I discovered that on April 28, 2017 the Great Falls Public Library dedicated a <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2017/04/28/library-dedicates-alma-jacobs-mural/101049076/">mural of Jacobs</a>. The library had previously named the library plaza in her honor. Alma Jacobs was the first African American elected as President of the Montana Library Association, the first elected as President of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and the first to serve on the Executive Board of the American Library Association. Jacobs’ sister Lucille Smith Thompson was also a prominent African American librarian (<a href="http://littleknownblacklibrarianfacts.blogspot.com/2012/12/lucille-smith-and-ballard-carnegie.html">Little Known Black Librarian Facts Blog</a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The American Library Association’s Library War Service operated forty-one camp libraries in the U.S. during World War I. ALA produced postcards depicting most of the camp library buildings, and I have examples of almost all of those in my library postcard collection. I particularly seek out those postcards with messages, and I’m always delighted when the message refers to the library depicted on the postcard. The postcard above depicts the library at Camp Jackson, SC. It was written on 11/10/18 but was postmarked on 11/11/18, Armistice Day. The postcard bears a 2 cent stamp. On Nov. 2, 1917, the postage rate for postal cards and postcards was increased to 2 cents to help pay for the war. The message is a testimonial for camp libraries. It reads: “Here is where I spend a part of my time while loafing. They certainly have an assortment of good magazines and books. In fact most anything one wants to read. I am here [the library] at present. This is a good picture of the building." I have written </span><a href="http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2014/06/wwi-camp-librarians-exchange-postcards.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another blog post</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> about camp library postcards with messages.</span><br />
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