It’s time to start getting back into the swing of things! 

Marriott Canby Morris, Laying out W.N.L West’s house, Pocono Lake, PA, 1909. Film negative. 

Image depicts three men and a woman stringing rope between stakes in a field at Pocono Lake. Thick underbrush grows in the field and trees border the clearing. 

The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground.       

We love short weeks almost as much as we love this 16th century book bound in manuscript waste! 

Publius Lentulus. In hoc libello epistola Lentuli ad Romanos de Christo Jesu… Padua: Johann Weyssenburger, 1535.

Come now, everyone get along!  Let’s start 2020 off on the right foot, wing, and fin!

Mrs. A. E. Anderson-Maskell. Four Feet, Wings & Fins. Boston: D. Lathrop & Co., [1879]

The first #WednesdayChallenge of 2020 asks us to share some of our #OutOfThisWorld collections, and we thought we’d start with this astrological plate from Comenius’s Janua Linguarum Trilinguis, which features the twelve signs of the #zodiac. 

The accompanying text is printed in three columns in three languages- English, Latin, and Greek. This pictorial phrasebook was intended to help students learn language through description of familiar things and by associating words with images.

Happy New Year! We hope your #horoscope is looking good!

Comenius, Johann Amos. Janua Linguarum Trilinguis. Londini:  ex Officina Rogeri Danielis, 1662.

Wishing you a Happy New Year, and many more to come! We hope you have your champagne fountain ready!

The Mercantile Register, or Business Man’s Guide. Philadelphia: H. Orr, No. 43 Chestnut Street, 1846.

Well there’s one way to cure holiday stress! 

[Carter Medicine Co. trade cards] ([New York]: [ca. 1885]). Lithograph.

Image depicts a large frog towering over a small, frightened child and a little girl pointing and instructing her ailing grandfather to take Carter’s back ache plasters.

This beautiful marbled paper was used for the #endpapers on our copy of “Historical remarques and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster.” Love those colors and those swirls!

R. B. Historical remarques and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster. London: printed for Nath. Crouch,1681.

This lovely green publishers binding was designed by Florence Pearl England Nosworthy, with her “FP” monogram in the lower left corner.  We love the maze of gold surrounding the colored accents. 

Bliss Carman.  The Kinship of Nature. Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1904.

We here at the Library Company wish you the best for the holiday season!

This image features a page from a scrapbook compiled by Minnie Campbell Wilson (neé Harris), ca. 1877-1890. 

Can you spot the difference between these two wintry scenes? 

First image: Henry Graeff, Delaware River Canal, ca. 1910-ca. 1940. Ink, watercolor, and color pencil drawing. Second image: Henry Graeff, Delaware River Canal, River House Near New Hope, ca. 1910-ca. 1940. Ink, watercolor, and color pencil drawing. 

Images depict two versions of an inn and a snow covered landscape along the Delaware River Canal.