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tuesday-johnson: ca. 1895, [portrait of female medical students...

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:49:52 -0400

ca. 1895, [portrait of female medical students performing a dissection]

via A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive, Stanley B. Burns

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:27:52 -0400

http://www.wanderer.com/news/potential-staff-cuts-and-additions/

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:29:00 -0500

http://www.wanderer.com/news/potential-staff-cuts-and-additions/:

Our local junior high wants to cut the librarian in favor of an additional gym teacher… Please share and feel free to write a letter to the editor: news@wanderer.com

Captain Kirk wishes he had become a librarian. I love...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:57:56 -0500

Captain Kirk wishes he had become a librarian. I love Spock’s response!

Aunt Keziah Randall, 1789-1892 In the months before she passed...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:40:33 -0500

Aunt Keziah Randall, 1789-1892

In the months before she passed away, she could be seen wandering the cemetery where she would visit her own grave and work on it, preparing for her final resting place.

Click on the image for more of Aunt Keziah’s story

Francis Davis Millet (American, 1846-1912), The Cossacks Part...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:33:59 -0500

Francis Davis Millet (American, 1846-1912), The Cossacks Part II, “Fifty Lashes”. Pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, 38.1 x 31.1 cm. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Sudden Death, 1841 His death had come “by unfair...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:50:26 -0500

Sudden Death, 1841

His death had come “by unfair means,”…several men went to the cemetery with shovels in hand to dig up the remains of Thomas Randall.The rotting corpse was carried through the streets of Mattapoisett…

Cushing Cemetery, Mattapoisett, Mass.

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:53:39 -0400

Cushing Cemetery, Mattapoisett, Mass.

Budget Cuts to Archives Put History Out of Reach

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:43:13 -0400

Budget Cuts to Archives Put History Out of Reach

Librarian Fact #542

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:35:26 -0400

thepinakes:

librarianfacts:

The correct term for a male librarian is “librarian.”

True fact.

http://www.facebook.com/SaveLivesey

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:45:45 -0400

http://www.facebook.com/SaveLivesey

nypl: We give you: the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:43:45 -0400

nypl:

We give you: the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson’s hand. Click through to see all four pages. (Apologies for the fuzzy quality of the images.)

Amazing, right? This artifact is in the NYPL’s Thomas Addis Emmet Collection, which contains several thousand original prints, drawings, watercolors, and printed book illustrations relating to early American history, primarily from the period leading to the American Revolution through the early years of the nation.

In an NYPL blog post, Thomas Lannon, assistant curator of the Manuscripts & Archives Division, gives a history of this copy of the Declaration and explains how the Library came to own it.

Happy Independence Day!

When you have a moustache… circa 1912

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:44:59 -0400

When you have a moustache… circa 1912

In 1902 the State Board of Charity delivered its annual report...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:30:39 -0400

In 1902 the State Board of Charity delivered its annual report to the Massachusetts legislature. The report was not a positive one. It noted the large number of complaints about the state’s almshouses including overcrowding, dilapidated housing, squalid living conditions and vermin.

The report indicated that the almshouse in Rochester was home to four people, one man and three women. It stated that the almshouse itself was “in very bad condition and beyond possibility of repair”. Rather than spend money to build a new almshouse and continue employing and supporting a keeper for the almshouse, Rochester decided to board out the inmates… read more at http://southcoasthistory.wordpress.com

Here Was Born November 3 1846 Francis Davis Millet Drummer...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:34:25 -0400

Here Was Born November 3 1846

Francis Davis Millet

Drummer Boy War Correspondent

Author Illustrator Artist

He Went Down With The Titanic

April 15 1912

-Memorial marking the birth home of Frank Millet, Water Street, Mattapoisett, Mass.

Birth home of Francis Davis Millet. Water Street, Mattapoisett,...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:30:39 -0400

Birth home of Francis Davis Millet. Water Street, Mattapoisett, Mass. Millet died on the Titanic, April 1912.

my-ear-trumpet: modernfoppery: slavin: via Greenfield: “This...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:58:37 -0400

my-ear-trumpet:

modernfoppery:

slavin:

via Greenfield:

“This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end.

The technology – a curious cross between the space age and the stone age – consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ‘scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking.”

(via 314 - Watch the Road: World’s Earliest SatNav | Strange Maps | Big Think)

So cool.

Edwardian genius.

livielightyear: WELL, that actually worked! This looks more...

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:16:13 -0400

livielightyear:

WELL, that actually worked! This looks more like 1850s (no date attached) instead of 1840s, but it’s close enough!

*happy research dance*

pupunahsh: map of New Bedford, 1876

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:11:52 -0400

pupunahsh:

map of New Bedford, 1876

thingsihappentolike: Scrimshaw whale tooth by William Perry The...

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:10:22 -0400

thingsihappentolike:

Scrimshaw whale tooth by William Perry

The ship Kutusoff of New York had a gross tonnage of 364 tons. Her master for most of her career was Gustavius Cornelious Sorensen.

The scrimshander William Perry was born in Oakland, California in 1894. He was inspired by his father, Frank Antone Perry, a New Bedford-born whaleman but his mother forbade him follow in his father’s footsteps due to the dangers of whaling. Instead, after a series of odd jobs, including a glass-cutting job in New Bedford, and a watchman position on the whaleship Charles W. Morgan, Perry combined his love of whaling and art by carving scrimshaw during his free time. Perry became an important transitional scrimshander, and engraved whaling scenes on over 1,000 pieces of sperm whale teeth and panbone to create exquisitely detailed scenes. His work is included in the collections of the Nantucket Whaling Museum (which has the largest collection of Perry’s work), the Mystic Seaport Museum and the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

(sold a auction for $12,500)