HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD BOOKS

This week as we thought about another year coming to a close, we took another look around the shelves in the Bullis Room and wondered how many of these books are at least a century old.  A quick search identified a few books published in 1912, and we were interested to see what people were writing about a hundred years ago. Here's a list of some of them:

Aristotle, on the Athenian Constitution

 by F. A. Kenyon published in London

Howney's Cookbook

by Maria Howard, published in Boston

History of London

by Helen Douglas Irvine, published in New York

Self-Propelled Vehicles...Automobiles

James Homans, published in New York

Butterfly and Moth Book

Ellen Robertson Miller, published in New York

New York State Museum, Report of State Botanist 1912 (Mushrooms)

Published in New York

So now we know some of the things people were "into" way back when: cooking, constitutions, self-propelled vehicles, butterflies and moths, mushrooms, and London history. Wonder what people will be writing about in 2112...???