George Corselius' Circulating Library, Ann Arbor, 1830s : 無料・フリー素材/写真
George Corselius' Circulating Library, Ann Arbor, 1830s / In Memoriam: Wystan
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | "GEO. CORSELIUS' "CIRCULATING LIBRARY. "This volume may be kept ____ days. ____ cents will be charged for each additional day. "Soiling, tearing, or breaking books is a spe-cies of Vandalism entirely without excuse. Afine of from six to fifty cents will be taxed forevery such outrage committed on this volume."George Corselius was for a time the editor of the first newspaper in Ann Arbor, "The Western Emigrant," which commenced publication in 1829. (The paper was owned by John Allen and Samuel W. Dexter, the founders, respectively, of Ann Arbor and of Dexter Village.) The paper was either the first or second in the entire country to urge the building of a transcontinental railroad. Corselius also has the distinction of being one of the first Ann Arborites to leave town for the California Gold Rush in 1849 -- a journey he did not live to complete; he got as far as the Isthmus of Panama (intending to cross the narrow neck of land on a donkey's back, then take ship on the Pacific side for El Dorado) but, becoming ill, he turned back. Alas, he died aboard a ship bound for New York, and was buried at sea. "Buried in the Atlantic" is the inscription on his memorial -- a tree-stump cenotaph in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery. During the twenty years between those dates, Corselius was, among other things, Ann Arbor's first librarian: lending books, for a fee, from his private stock. This is a specimen of the labels that were pasted inside the front covers of his precious volumes.After the University opened for business in the 1840s, Corselius was hired to catalog the institution's library -- which of course started small. In November, 1840, Corselius won election on the Whig ticket as Washtenaw County Register of Deeds.This link will take you to a photo and description of Corselius' house, at 317 East Ann Street -- one of Ann Arbor's historic buildings, quite likely the oldest dwelling to survive:www.aadl.org/gallery/buildings/317EAnn.gif.htmlTwenty years after his death, the transcontinental railroad was completed, with the driving of the "golden spike" that linked the Union Pacific and the Western Pacific. Had Corselius had a chance to take the train to California, he might have lived to a ripe old age.His daughter, Cornelia Corselius, was bookish also. An Ann Arbor school teacher, in 1885 she published a collection of rather insipid tales for children, titled "Financie, and Stories from Real Life." Two of the tales have local settings, and tell of children who trudged the dusty roads to Dixboro and Dexter Village.(The label above was copied from a poor photo in an old eBay listing; if anyone reading this has a better copy of a Corselius label, please post it and let me know.) |
| 撮影日 | 1830-01-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | In Memoriam: Wystan , Ann Arbor |
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