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Summer intern, Lydia Shaw, dives into the works of Mary Abigail Dodge with special attention to her children’s stories of the young girl, Trip, illustrated here in a story about friendship and blackberries.

Read more about Miss Shaw, Miss Dodge, and the character Trip on our blog: http://librarycompany.org/2018/06/11/intern-spotlight-lydia-shaw/.

The Library Company’s Hurford Center 2017 Summer Intern, Juliana Benitez discovers the appeal of ephemera and writes about her work with our WWI poster and trade card collections on the Library Company blog. Juliana learns that these materials that seemed unfamiliar to her represent an American culture she still relates to. You can read the whole article HERE.

L. Shoemaker & Co., “Swift-Sure” Super-Phosphate, Venango St. and Delaware Ave., Philadelphia (Philadelphia, ca. 1880).

This month, Masterman High School senior Diana Myers has undertaken the study of this combination photograph from 1884, titled “Eminent Women”, for her brief internship at the Library Company. According to Diana:

“Eminent Women,” a combination photograph of twelve notable American women, was composed in Notman’s Montreal studio in 1884 by a talented assistant, Eugene L’Africain. It was originally made as a cabinet card (similar in size to a postcard), which were common collector’s items, for advertising Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford, Connecticut. The twelve women never got together as a group, and may not have known each other. All the women were photographed separately in Notman’s Boston studio at some point in their lives. Notman and L’Africain likely pulled the photographic negatives held on file for each woman and combined them without asking for permission. 

Check out Diana’s blog post to learn more about her project.