We want to give you advance notice on some "goings-on" here in the library that are a high priority for those of us interested in the Bullis Collection. So we suggest you mark your calendars now for these events:
1. Sunday, October 21, 2 PM - Peter Jemison, Manager of the Ganondagan historical site in victor, will make a presentation in MPL's Community Room. He'll be focusing on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua and the importance of the treaty to the settlement and history of the greater Macedon area.
2. Saturday, November 10, from Noon to 3 PM - "Documenting our Macedon Memories" - Macedon area residents can bring their historic photos of Wayne County to one of three scanning sessions in the library. The emphasis will be to document information about the photographs, gather family stories, and increase awareness about the photography collection in the Town Historian's office (which is right next door to the Bullis Room).
3. On a Sunday afternoon in February, 2013 - Dr. David Anderson, a noted storyteller and faculty member at Nazareth College, will present "If My Life is but Spared; Austin Steward's Sojourn from Slavery to Freedom."
Mr. Steward, a former slave who made his home in Farmington and later Rochester, wrote Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Free Man, published in 1857. AND, we have a copy of this book in the Bullis Collection.
Hope to see you at these events. And if you'd like to stop by the Bullis Room before or after any of these "goings-on," we'll be there.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
THE WEST FROM A CAR WINDOW
Okay - maybe you already knew (we didn't) that the Ford Motor Company shipped its first car on this date in 1903. Well, when we found out we once again went to the collection's data base and searched for "cars." Here's the first hit that caught our attention:
The West from a Car-Window
by Richard Harding Davis
Published by Harper & Brothers in 1903
This work documents a car trip from Texas through Oklahoma and into Colorado. And there are photos and illustrations, too! In an effort to get you to stop by the Bullis Room and take a look at this book, here's a partial list of the visuals:
A Bucking Broncho
"Remember the Alamo!"
Third Calvary Troopers--Searching a Suspected Revolutionist
The "Holy Moses" Mine
The Cheyenne Type
Big Bull
Oklahoma City on the Day of the Opening
A Kiowa Maiden
The Omnipotent Bugler
The Barracks, Fort Houston
Gateway of the Garden of the Gods, and Pike's Peak
Polo Above the Snow-line at Colorado Springs
Pike's Peak from Colorado Springs
So before you set out on your car trip west this summer, you might like to see what it looked like from a car window over a hundred years ago. This book's waiting for you in the Bullis Room. Hope to see you soon.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
ST. THOMAS MORE, HENRY VIII, and a DENTAL CONGRESS
Last week we searched for books on California and got sidetracked by a reference to St. Thomas More. So this week we looked in the Bullis data bank for books on More and were disappointed that we didn't find a book dedicated exclusively to him. However, because he was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England as well as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532, there are references to him in these two Bullis books that chronicle the life of that monarch:
1. Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England: with the fortunes, fates and character of his six wives, written by Henry William Herbert and published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan in 1855.
2. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: the story as told by the imperial ambassadors resident at the court of Henry VIII, written by J. A. Froude and published by C. Scribner's Sons in 1899.
So for you history buffs who are into that period in history, we recommend you take a look at these two volumes.
Now for the "Dental Congress" part of this post's title - our "California" search last week also hit on this book in the collection:
Panama-Pacific Dental Congress, San Francisco, California, August thirtieth to September ninth, nineteen fifteen, authored by Panama-Pacific Dental Congress (1915: San Francisco) and published by The Abbott Press in 1915.
How did this book make its way into the Bullis collection? In fact, how did it make its way to Macedon? As far as we know, there were no dentists in the Bullis family and very few (if any?) in the Macedon area in 1915. We'll never know the how and why of it, but we do know it is in residence on a shelf in the Bullis Room. So if you're interested in what was going on in dentistry in the Panama-Pacific area a hundred years ago, this may be just the book for you.
1. Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England: with the fortunes, fates and character of his six wives, written by Henry William Herbert and published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan in 1855.
2. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: the story as told by the imperial ambassadors resident at the court of Henry VIII, written by J. A. Froude and published by C. Scribner's Sons in 1899.
So for you history buffs who are into that period in history, we recommend you take a look at these two volumes.
Now for the "Dental Congress" part of this post's title - our "California" search last week also hit on this book in the collection:
Panama-Pacific Dental Congress, San Francisco, California, August thirtieth to September ninth, nineteen fifteen, authored by Panama-Pacific Dental Congress (1915: San Francisco) and published by The Abbott Press in 1915.
How did this book make its way into the Bullis collection? In fact, how did it make its way to Macedon? As far as we know, there were no dentists in the Bullis family and very few (if any?) in the Macedon area in 1915. We'll never know the how and why of it, but we do know it is in residence on a shelf in the Bullis Room. So if you're interested in what was going on in dentistry in the Panama-Pacific area a hundred years ago, this may be just the book for you.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
CALIFORNIA, HYDRAULIC MINING, AND ISAAC NEWTON
This week we're posting two books in the collection as a way of remembering two events.
First, on July 7 in 1846, the United States officially annexed what is now California, following the surrender of a Mexican garrison at Monterey. We searched the Bullis data base for "California" books and found this entry:
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie and published by D. Van Nostrand Company in 1889. This book contains a "description of the use and construction of ditches, flumes, wrought-iron pipes, and dams; flow of water on heavy grades, and its applicability, under pressure, to mining."
We're recommending this book to any of you who are interested in California history or hydraulic mining (and currently hydrofracturing). Please feel free to stop by and take a serious look at this book, as it contains maps, diagrams, tables, and detailed drawings that illustrate the finer points of a process that was the forerunner of today's methods.
Second, since Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy, was published on July 5, 1687, we again looked in the Bullis records for that work. No hits, but we did find another which we think you'll also find interesting:
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster, published in 1831 by J. and J. Harper.
Principia Mathematica is considered one of the most important works every written. You can take a look at it online and you can find out more about the author when you stop by the Bullis Room and look at Sir David Brewster's book. (As an aside: Sir David was a Scottish physicist, mathematician and astronomer who invented the kaleidoscope and made major improvements to the stereoscope.)
One other date this week caught our attention: On July 26, 1535, St. Thomas More was executed in England for high treason. But that's for another post.
First, on July 7 in 1846, the United States officially annexed what is now California, following the surrender of a Mexican garrison at Monterey. We searched the Bullis data base for "California" books and found this entry:
A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California written by Augustus Jesse Bowie and published by D. Van Nostrand Company in 1889. This book contains a "description of the use and construction of ditches, flumes, wrought-iron pipes, and dams; flow of water on heavy grades, and its applicability, under pressure, to mining."
We're recommending this book to any of you who are interested in California history or hydraulic mining (and currently hydrofracturing). Please feel free to stop by and take a serious look at this book, as it contains maps, diagrams, tables, and detailed drawings that illustrate the finer points of a process that was the forerunner of today's methods.
Second, since Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy, was published on July 5, 1687, we again looked in the Bullis records for that work. No hits, but we did find another which we think you'll also find interesting:
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster, published in 1831 by J. and J. Harper.
Principia Mathematica is considered one of the most important works every written. You can take a look at it online and you can find out more about the author when you stop by the Bullis Room and look at Sir David Brewster's book. (As an aside: Sir David was a Scottish physicist, mathematician and astronomer who invented the kaleidoscope and made major improvements to the stereoscope.)
One other date this week caught our attention: On July 26, 1535, St. Thomas More was executed in England for high treason. But that's for another post.
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