Special Collections

What books did Anita Gray, Jeanne Rodger Lane, and Clara Spiegel put into our new Community Library when it opened?

• ‘Degas’ by Daniel Catton Rich (1952)
• ‘Jerry and the Pony Express’ by Sanford Tousey (1943)
• ‘Football the American Intercollegiate Game’ by Parke H. Davis (1911)

We have a number of well-used, well-loved Children’s books. Many have been boxed up for decades, and they are now finding a home in special collections.

We are honored to house all three volumes, plus the atlas of Captain James Cook’s ‘A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean’, published in 1874.

It’s a working barn, with cowboy quarters above the animals – now located at the Children’s Entrance at the top of the stairs!

We have original prints of ‘Birds of America’ by John James Audubon, stored in our climate-controlled vault. Some of these can be seen (reprinted and framed) throughout the library.

Arion Press set this poem in a circular format. The text is handset in lines that radiate as spokes from a hub holding the page number, so that the pages literally must be turned to be read. The original prints are in various mediums, including lithography, etching, and woodcut.