nypl:
July 27, 1906: “I saw the hippopotamus yesterday. The heat did not bother him. He was taking a bath. Your Father.”
#CuteThingsDadsSendTheirKids
From the Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection.
That is one easygoing hippo.
nypl:
This is a magic lantern slide (fore-runner to the photo slide carousel and Powerpoint) from a 1918 presentation about the library. Over 9.6 million items were circulated by the NYPL that year! (It’s almost three times that today.)
I miss using my library card.
