Happy Opening Day at Camden Yards!!
Can you hear the screaming? Smell the popcorn, the peanuts, the hot dogs? Do you feel that hype??
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we, the proud Baltimore Orioles fans, present to you a peek at America’s greatest pastime ever (besides Oreos and Disney): baseball.
OMG!!!! I think we may have just discovered the most creepy of creepers ever, or at the very least, the most creepy depiction of a baseball player ever. Thank you, Chadwick’s Baseball Reference (1867), for giving us one more monster to populate our dreams!
Seriously, what are his muttonchops hiding?
Call No.: 796.3 C432 1867
For those of you in Baltimore (or those who simply have an inexplicable love for the Orioles), happy Opening Day at Camden Yards! To celebrate, we present to you a photograph of the 1895 Baltimore Base Ball Club as reproduced in Spalding’s Base Ball Guide (1896).
Call No.: 796.357 S734G
Location: George Peabody Library
From dandies in danger to the lusty dramas of educated fleas, the George Peabody Library proves that the past was indeed STRANGE! Visit us in Baltimore (don't worry, in addition to the strange things depicted here, we also have plenty of old and rare and classy books, too).
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 9am -5pm; Friday 9-3
Address: 17 East Mount Vernon Place Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-234-4943
Libguide: http://bit.ly/g1UsTk
Email: peabody@jhu.edu
George Peabody Library by Marcellina. on Flickr.
George Peabody Library by Jeff Lee Photo on Flickr.
I would die if I studied here. Die from sheer, overwhelming emotion. The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in the United States...
Founding editor George A. Plimpton’s business card.
On the back was a subscription card, which had the option to purchase a lifetime subscription...
In the meantime, even the libraries...
Some photos from the Rutgers University Libraries Edible Books Festival that took place yesterday at Alexander Library.
From Top to Bottom:
Naked...
Cathedral of Books - Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA
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Before Records Made Sound, They Made Moving Pictures & Were Called Phenakistoscopes
Quick, someone make a GIF of this!
