Category: Library Talk

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director This picture, along with other flood related items was recently donated to the library archives. This is the ‘pool hall’…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Latest Aberdeen postcard added to our collection. Not sure when published, but postmarked 1943, and has the purple ‘Win the…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director 1964 flood photo, but what we really like is the picture of the Standard Oil service station! In 1964 Joseph…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director A big thank you to the Ripley Friends of the Library for all the work they did this past week.…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director As readers of the column will no doubt know, we like postcards! The snapshots of a business, a house, a…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Seems that pictures of students are pretty popular, and with graduation just around the corner, we thought another cute class…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Latest addition to our Aberdeen collection of ephemera. The advertising card appealed to us as Mr. T. F. Hill had…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director In the library holdings, we have a collection of 5 photographs taken during the 1912 Centennial celebration in Ripley. All…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Once again, the Ripley Library will have RULH alumni tickets for sale and we just got the first batch. This…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Higginsport postcards are harder to come by than Ripley cards, so we were excited to add this one to our…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Hmm, what were you doing 28 years ago this week? It is the ‘anniversary’ of the 1997 flood that crested…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director The interest in last week’s column picture of the 1926 band encouraged us to revisit the yearbooks for this week…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director The library was recently given the opportunity to copy a 1926 Ripple yearbook. We have a few later years, but…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Browsing through our collection of February Ripley Bee photographs… Back on February 12, 1987 (28 years ago!), a boat on…

From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director Bustling metropolis of Ripley! Postmarked 1911. Methodist steeple standing straight, some of the buildings gone on both sides of 2nd…