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Archive: June 2026 (3 Posts)

Man working on the tail portion of a small skeleton on a table.

Dinosaurs in the Stacks: A Free to Use Set

Posted by: Claire D’Mura

Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, scattered throughout the Earth's many-layered crust. You can also find dinosaurs throughout the Library's collection! Get started with our Free to Use and Reuse set.

E Ridley & Sons 1887 on a banner across the top right with a bust of a man on the top left. Below a figure vaguely dressed as a Roman centurion representing trade holds a feather “sword” representing Trade Journalism confronts a man with and umbrella “sword” in a check jacket carrying a box of Inferior Goods of the Drummer and in between is a woman in a lavender dress with a Ridley’s Fashion Magazine with some images from the magazine; across the bottom from left to right is a person on a horse, a train, and US mail horse-drawn carts in front of Ridley’s.

Ridley’s on Grand

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Library holds many years of "Fashion Magazine" published by Edward Ridley & Sons, a 19th century department store in New York City. The magazine can be used to see the styles of the day and to understand what merchandise the store actually sold.