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In 2002 the Jones Library completely transferred from the card catalog to a digital system. Cards from the card catalog were signed by authors and illustrators and then sold to raise money for the library. Here patrons are picking out what cards to…

A white woman sitting in a house carding wool. There is some wool on the floor next to her and some skirts hang above.

House on Sunset Avenue built by Edward W. Carpenter (foreground) with a view of the adjacent house in the background.

A white woman walking down a street carrying a wicker basket on her head and holding a bag with her left hand. Other women walk around in the background around what is possibly a market.

A man walks towards the camera on a dirt road holding a walking stick in his right hand and carrying a large bundle of dried grass on his back which he is holding with his left hand.

A white woman placing a large wicker basket on a rocky ground near a thatch roofed house with a small window.

A white man walking on a dirt path carrying a large wicker basket on his back. There is a pile of stones next to him and a woman and a boy stand in the middle ground looking at the man.

A man walking through a bog carrying a wicker basket with some peat sticking out on his back. Hills rise in the background.

Pen and ink illustration of a man carrying a wicker basket of peat moss over his shoulder.

A white man walks through a swamp with tall grass around him, holding a pinioned alligator on his shoulders.

A group of black man sit on top of bags packed on a wagon pulled by two mules while a man rides a horse in the middle ground.

A white girl walks towards the camera approaching a street corner. Two white women walk on the sidewalk behind her. A fence runs along the sidewalk and a church stands in the middle ground. Trees grow along the street and other buildings are on the…

A dirt road extends on the right with a line of birch trees separating the road from a lake on the left. Mountains rise in the background and on the left.

Pen and ink illustration of the remnants of a castle with a road leading up to it in a field with a few trees.

A view of a rocky mountain top from a trail. A corner of a barbed wire fence is in the foreground with trees covering the middle ground.