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This One’s For You ~

… .  @multcolib! and @statelibraryor!

Today we recognize two of our favorite Oregon followers. @multcolib is the Tumblr blog of the John Wilson Special Collections at the Multnomah County Library in Portland. Their collections remind us a lot of our own, as we share many of the same collecting areas: book arts; children’s books; Native American literature; natural history; regional history. @statelibraryor is the Tumblr blog for the State Library of Oregon in Salem. They are, of course, the host of the weekly #Feathursday Name That Bird puzzler that we follow with great enthusiasm. In fact, if it weren’t for the prospect of participating in their weekly challenge, we’re not sure we’d be able to make it through the week. We’re not sure how we survived before Name That Bird, but know, @statelibraryor, that if you discontinue the series you risk multiple breakdowns here in Milwaukee. No pressure, or anything.

In their honor, we present images from the Oregon chapters of Emma Hildreth Adams’s To and Fro, Up and Down in Southern California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, with Sketches in Arizona, New Mexico and British Columbia, published in Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis by Cranston & Stowe in 1888. We know very little about either the author or the publisher, except that Adams wrote other travel books and some religious biographies, and may be identified with Emma Hildreth Drake Adams who was born in New York state in 1827 and died in Los Angeles in 1917; the publisher appears to have produced children’s books and religious literature throughout the 19th century. We are charmed by the lovely wood engravings and the color-stamped trade cloth cover, however. We hope you will be too!

So for all you do, @multcolib and @statelibraryor, this travelogue of the West Coast, and especially Oregon, is for you!!