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Tall, castle-like historical building.

Risky Business: Let The Ratings Decide

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

an advertisement for hair goods that shows eight different kinds of puffs and pompadours half of them displayed on a woman’s head

Hair from Over There: Centuries of Human Hair Trade Data

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

An illustrated heading that reads Menu Thanksgiving Day. On one side is a woman in an apron and bonnet holding a dish of warm food and on the other are shafts of wheat. Below is heading reads “So gladly we welcome the happy day. That comes when the summer is over. When the scattered friends we love so well. Round the home hearth meet once more. This drawing is from the 1903 Woman’s Favorite Cook Book.

Fuel for the Festivities: The Thanksgiving Breakfasts of Yesteryear

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Mural image is of Thomas Jefferson standing in front of Monticello with trees on either side and a stone wall

New Science and Business Additions to Thomas Jefferson’s Library

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Image of a chart with a line graph dipping up and down and dollar signs

Business Collections Orientation September 24

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff

The front cover of the 1904 "Favorite Medical Receipt Book and Home Doctor" includes colorful floral designs mixed with mortar pestle depictions that frame the title.

Historical Home Health Manuals: A Doctor in a Book

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Detail illustration of the interior of Pompeii ruins looking through an arch.

Endless Fascination: Charles-François Mazois’ Ruins of Pompeii

Posted by: Nate Smith

street signs showing Carondelet and Gravier

A Wall Street in New Orleans

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

Group of men running at the front of the pack. N.Y. Treasury can be seen in the background. Caption at the bottom is a quote from the novel Oliver Twist: “They no sooner heard the cry, than guessing how the matter stood, they issued forth with great promptitude; and shouting ‘Stop Thief!’ too, joined in pursuit like Good Citizens.”

Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons  

Posted by: Natalie Burclaff