An incredibly detailed binding, from all sides, for some incredibly detailed family histories. "The peerage, baronetage and knightage of the British empire for 1882," by Joseph Foster and published in Westminster by Nichols and Sons, offers a thorough record of noble British families in the 19th century.
The Phillips Library has a number of materials that can assist you in conducting genealogical research, and we even have a research guide to help you get started! 🔗 in bio
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A new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum featuring materials from the Phillips Library is open! "Pressing Importance: Salem and the Declaration of Independence" was curated by Dan Lipcan, the Ann C. Pingree Director of PEM’s Phillips Library.
The historical exhibit displays material by Ezekiel Russell, a local printer critical to publishing and disseminating the Declaration in 1776. The exhibit also includes some of the earliest broadside editions of the Declaration of Independence and other Revolutionary-era material, fitting for this summer's 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the 400th anniversary of the European settlement of Salem.
Images here, showing materials in the exhibit, are from the Phillips Library:
E211 .U558 1775: "A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms."
F74.I6 P753 1777: "The Price Act or, the list of prices now in force in the town of Ipswich, for the prevention of monopoly and oppression."
M1631 .T867 1777: "Two songs on the brave General Montgomery, and others, who fell within the walls of Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775, in attempting to storm that city."
Exhibit information 🔗 in bio.
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You never know how a book will unfold...
"Deacon's synchronological chart, pictorial and descriptive, of universal history" looks like a sizable book, measuring about 15 by 21 inches, but when you open it up you find a 14-panel sheet that comes out to 222.5 inches! With beautiful coloring, it contains a timeline of world history from Biblical times to ~1900. Before the long panel, a few pages contain a detailed key translated into seven languages.
By C.W. Deacon & Co and Edward Hull. As an extra cool treat, this has been digitized and is on the @internetarchive . 🔗in bio.
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You would never know that such beautiful marbled endpaper was within a relatively simple binding. "Hymn Tunes and Other Church Music," by John Francis Tuckerman, was published in 1882 when Tuckerman was a vestryman at Grace Church in Salem.
From the Mary Saltonstall Parker papers, MSS 388.
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📷️New digital collection! The Early Music Collection, with digitization done and the collection page created by our Spring Digital Projects Intern, Gabriel Proia. From Gabe:
Hi, I’m Gabriel, I’ve been the digital projects intern at the Phillips Library the past few months, and my main project has been digitizing the library’s early music collection. This collection contains over 40 volumes of handwritten music manuscripts from 1786-1872, including dance and folk music, popular tunes, hymns, vocal duets and trios, original compositions, instrument instructional material, and much more!
As a musician (as well as an aspiring librarian), it’s been a real pleasure to work with these manuscripts and they’ve been full of surprises! I’ve loved getting little glimpses of peoples’ personalities from over two hundred years ago through their notes, scribbles, doodles, and of course, their taste in music. I even recognized some of the tunes I came across – it’s nice to know that people have grown up hearing Yankee Doodle, Pop Goes the Weasel, and Auld Lang Syne since *at least* 1797 :)
Much of the material in this collection was created by members of prominent Essex County families (people like Stephen Wheatland, mayor of Salem in the 1860s), but there are also notebooks from ordinary folks like professional musicians, members of church choirs, and dance instructors. I’ve found that the collection gives you an oddly intimate sense of how music fit into the social lives of people from all walks of life.
I hope you’ll check out these music manuscripts, and the rest of our digitized material, on our digital collections portal!
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A very polite invitation to a duel to Leverett Saltonstall is shown here, alongside some of Saltonstall's journals and a folder of his papers.
One of the amazing things about North Shore is the rich, overlapping history between institutions. At the Phillips Library, we have the Leverett Saltonstall papers, which document Salem's first Mayor Leverett Saltonstall. Saltonstall is now buried at the historic Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem. As part of the #Salem400 this year, Harmony Grove Cemetery is having a talk about Saltonstall next week on May 9 at 11 am. Swipe for more info, and a close up of the duel is the last pic ➡️
From MSS 243, the Leverett Saltonstall papers, 1715-1845, undated, document Saltonstall's political and legal activities, including extensive materials regarding his law practice, especially marine and civil litigation; personal papers; and political papers, speeches, and journals.
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The Phillips Library holds the combined bookplate collections of the Essex Institute and Alice Flint Brooks, the latter's substantial collection having been donated to the Institute in 1927.
A selection from these collections has been digitized and is newly available online at the Phillips Library Digital Collections. Click the link in bio to get inspiration for your own bookplate!
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📜William Shakespeare died #OTD in 1616. To celebrate his work, here is a beautifully bound copy of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Swipe to see the equally gorgeous illustrations by Alfred Fredericks.
From "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks. Published in New York by D. Appleton and Co.
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This #earthday I've been in the stacks thinking about the history of the care, attention, and study of the earth that is documented in our library. From animals to bugs to birds (and more!) there is a lot to appreciate and learn from.
It's important to know that older books on naturalism often include information on the capture, killing, and preservation of animals, bugs, and birds, because that was seen as the appropriate and necessary method of study. Now, thankfully, we can work to appreciate, observe, and document without interfering.
Books shown in order are:
1) "The Book of the Animal Kingdom: Mammals." J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ; E.P. Dutton & Co., in 1910.
2) "Moths and Butterflies." Ginn & company in 1901.
3) "Birdcraft: A field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds." Macmillan and Co. in 1895.
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A miniature and marbled book of birds for children on this #MarbledMonday and #MiniatureMonday (and also #MarathonMonday, but our only sport is watching the race).
"Child's Natural History of Birds" by Charles Williams (1796-1866) offers a pocket-sized account of a handful of birds that is small enough for the smallest pockets (70 mm by 80 mm). Bound with a marbled cover and debossed with a bird on the front, this miniature book offers fewer bird species with more narration about each one.
Published in Philadelphia by H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss around 1850.
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#OTD in 1898, second mate and log keeper John Allen noted his 19th birthday in the log of the bark Vigilant.
Along with a few illustrations of birds and coastlines, this is one of the few personal details in an otherwise purely data-filled ship log. Allen and his shipmates aboard the Vigilant travelled from their home port of Salem, Mass., to Alexandria, Va.; Mauritius; and back to Salem (Sept. 1797 to Oct. 1798); and then a couple of months later embarked on a second voyage from Salem to Dumfries, Va.; Copenhagen; Saint Petersburg, Russia; and back to Salem (Dec. 1798 to Aug. 1799).
From Log 1969
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A beautiful study of paste paper design and paper marbling for #MarbledMonday.
Rosamond Bowditch Loring's "Marbled Papers, an address delivered before the members of the Club of Odd Volumes on November 16, 1932" was turned into this unique book. Only 149 copies were printed at The Riverside Press in Cambridge in May, 1933. The book includes the lecture as well as pasted in examples of different stages of paper marbling.
The decorated papers, including the beautiful cover as well as the many examples of marbled paper within, were designed and executed by Rosamond Bowditch Loring (1889-1950) to accompany her address. Loring was a celebrated author, bookbinder, designer, collector, and historian of decorated papers.
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