Category: Closer Look
A Closer Look: Minnie Avery & bicycle on road between Lenox Dale and New Lenox
I have no idea who Minnie Avery is or why she rode her bicycle out to the road between Lenox Dale and New Lenox at the turn of the 2oth century. It is enough for me that someone captured it on film. My first question is, “Why is Minnie Avery standing in what looks like…
A Closer Look: Pageant at Glendale, 150th anniversary of Wilbraham
by Mary Bell, Assistant Director Wilbraham Public Library This unassuming photograph of a couple in a horse-drawn carriage and two men standing outside is the best proof I have of Wilbraham’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. Handwriting on the photograph describes this scene as part of a pageant during Wilbraham’s 150th anniversary in 1913, and…
A Closer Look: Frontal close-up view of two rams
Written by Patricia Feeley, Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Boston Public Library When I come upon an image that deserves A Closer Look, I am usually rewarded with a story that deserves telling as well. The giant whale on the beach of Ostende print led to a story of 18th century Europeans encountering strange and wonderful creatures. An…