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Build a Better Icebox | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Build a Better Icebox. In our copy of “Pamphlet No. 1” published in Baltimore by the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality in April 1913, one can read many suggestions about the proper care and feeding of infants. After telling us that we should always keep milk on ice, but warm it up to body temperature before feeding the little nipper, we get this:. But does your grocer even have wooden boxes?
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Song to a City Pigeon | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Song to a City Pigeon. Today happens to be the 20th anniversary of my graduation from library school (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana). In celebration, I am posting the words of a song I cataloged into our rare collections library this week. The item this is from is a bound set of. Original Songs, Duetts [sic], Glees &c., Sacred, Moral and Amusing. Song to a City Pigeon.
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. The “study of the man of intellect”. I came across the following paragraphs today on the opening pages of. Father and Daughter: a Portraiture from the Life. By Fredrika Bremer. Translated by Mary Howitt. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [ca. 1860]. The book was recently cataloged into the Pennsylvania Imprints collection at the State Library of Pennsylvania’s Rare Collections Library. That is his life and his reward. You k...
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Not Your Usual Childrens’ Story Book | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Not Your Usual Childrens’ Story Book. I just added cataloging for our copy of a 31 page USDA booklet titled:. The Story of the Cattle Fever Tick : What Every Southern Child Should Know About Cattle Ticks : A Picture Book Which Shows How the Fever Ticks Steal Milk, Meat and Money from Farmers and Kill Thousands of their Cattle. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture [G.P.O.], 1917. On 18 March 2009 at 8:08 am Leave a Comment.
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Three Pamphlets Among Many | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Three Pamphlets Among Many. At the library we’re all working away as hard as we can, trying to wrap up certain projects between now and the end of the fiscal year. Still, I have to mention a couple pamphlets that I came across this week while cataloging bound pamphlet volumes. This particular volume had a number of temperance items, so I wasn’t surprised to see also this item:. Light and Horton, 1835. It is a satire. Thus you may p...
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Sloyd! | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. The title of this post is one of my newest vocabulary words. I don’t believe I’d heard it before earlier this week when I cataloged a pamphlet from our Pamphlet Volume collection:. The Sloyd of America. Larsson carried out a teacher training course in the philosophy and methods of Sloyd there in Boston. At the time of the pamphlet, nearly 200 teachers had completed the course, “most of whom are now giving sloyd training t...Fill in...
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Not My Job | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. This blog is “not my job.” Not any longer, anyway. As of today, I haven’t been paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a year. That is my explanation for letting this blog die. There were difficulties at the State Library that led to my looking elsewhere for employment. And I’m very, very happy with my new job. We’re well supported (financially. Did the new space ever get up and running in a fully functional way? All I can add...
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March | 2011 | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. This blog is “not my job.” Not any longer, anyway. As of today, I haven’t been paid by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a year. That is my explanation for letting this blog die. There were difficulties at the State Library that led to my looking elsewhere for employment. And I’m very, very happy with my new job. We’re well supported (financially. Did the new space ever get up and running in a fully functional way? All I can add...
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The Personal Touch from a Phone Company | Erudite and Eccentric
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An unofficial blog about rare books at the State Library of Pennsylvania. The Personal Touch from a Phone Company. The Pennsylvania Telephone Company served customers in the eastern half of the state. It was consolidated with, or purchased by, the Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia in 1908. In the company’s Annual Report for the year ending 31 December 1905, the board of directors reports that. Anyway, the 1905 Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Telephone Company. To TrackBack this entry is:. Enter yo...
