Here’s a pensive pair for this week’s #BoatsintheLibrary challenge!

Marriott C. Morris captured this moment in the summer of 1907 in Sea Girt, New Jersey, where the Morris Family owned a home. 

Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer. [Woman and dog in boat, Sea Girt] Summer 1907. 1 photograph: film negative; 3 x 4.5 in.

The #BoatsintheLibrary challenge continues this week with a delightful sketch by artist Peter Moran from 1882. The Library Company holds several of Moran’s sketchbooks from a trip to New England in the summer of 1882, which can be viewed here: 

https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3APMOR1

Moran, Peter, 1841-1914, artist. [Sketchbooks during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882] [graphic]. [United States] [1882]

We’re jumping on this month’s #BoatsInTheLibrary challenge with this circa 1853 lithograph print depicting the Floating Church of the Redeemer. 

The floating Episcopal church was built in 1849 after the designs of architect Clement L. Dennington. The church moored at the foot of Dock Street in Philadelphia until reconsecrated to a New Jersey parish in 1853 and placed on a brick foundation. The building ultimately burned down in 1868. 

Wm. Endicott & Co. The Floating Church of the Redeemer, Philadelphia. [graphic] / C. L. Dennington, archt and builder N. York. New York: Lith. and printed in colors by Wm. Endicott & Co [ca. 1853] 1 print: lithograph, tinted with 3 stones; 53 x 41 cm.(21 x 16.5 in.) 

We’re kicking off this month’s #AwesomeLetterhead challenge with this circa 1896 letterhead of The Pharmaceutical Era and its fabulous typography. 

The Pharmaceutical Era was a periodical in publication from c.1887-1931 that claimed to be “Devoted to Chemistry, Pharmacy and Collateral Science.”

Look for more Awesome Letterheads every Thursday in August!

[Letterhead of The Pharmaceutical Era, D. C. Haynes & Co., publishers, New York] [graphic]. [New York] [ca. 1890] 2 prints: relief; 28 x 22 cm. (11 x 8.5 in.) or smaller. 

Our final #LibraryGetaway feature goes out to all the people who like a little beachside exercise during their vacay.

Photo-Illustrators, Ocean City, New Jersey Beach, gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1930. Library Company of Philadelphia. Gift of Joseph Kelly.

Dainty miss, of germs be wary / Is your towel sanitary?

Ready to hit the beach for your #LibraryGetaway? This circa 1910 trade card promotes San-Knit-Tary Textile Mills, which manufactured knitted hand, face, bath, and beach towels. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The name changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills.

What the wild waves are saying. [graphic]. [Philadelphia] [ca. 1910] 1 print : halftone photomechanical print ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.) 

Every Wednesday in July, we will be participating in the #LibraryGetaway Challenge! This week’s feature comes from our Morris Collection.

Marriott C. Morris’s daughter Janet Morris created this travel journal to commemorate the family’s vacation to Europe in 1925. The first half of the journal contains Janet’s fanciful imaginings of what her trip might be like, including getting swept off her feet by a foreign man. The second half is filled with clippings, tickets, and mementos of the Morris family’s journey through England and France.

See more journals from our Morris Collection here.

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We’re sharing this terrifying (though beautifully stamped) seven-headed dragon as part of the June #FantasticBeastsintheLibrary challenge. We especially love the cluster of stars around the beast’s tail, maybe because it distracts us from all those teeth…

Gavin, Antonio, fl. 1726. The great red dragon ; or, The master-key to popery / by Anthony Gavin. Boston : Published by Samuel Jones, 1854. 408 p., [4] leaves of plates (incl. frontis.) :  ill. ;  20 cm. (12mo)