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Today’s the day!!!

Come visit us from 3-5 this afternoon for the Grand Opening of our new Humboldt Room! There will be free cake ;-)

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This #spooktober 👻 get some costume inspiration from the #SpecialCollections of #hsulibrary ! Morris Herman was a Humboldt local poet with a number of publications. His works include such spooky titles as "Salem's Girl" and "The Magician". Visit Special Collections for access to the M. Herman poetry collection 🕸🕷🕸 #krb (at Humboldt State University Library)

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A gem from the Special Collections archives. Not much information is given about the photograph, but the individuals shown seem to be of relative economic success considering their style of dress and the expendable income they would have needed to afford a bicycle at the time.

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Come check out cool vintage postcards like this one from the Hartsook Inn in the Humboldt Room’s Tim McKay Postcard Collection! Search the database online at http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/ and take a look in person by visiting the HSU Library! -EK

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Tim McKay (1947-2006)

The Tim McKay postcard collection

The gorgeous scenery of Humboldt County attracts many interesting characters from far and wide. Tim McKay was one of these. Born in Stockton, CA in 1947, McKay was always raised close to the beautiful outdoors of California spending his earliest years exposed to rural farm life. He maintained a fascination for photography in high school and went on to be the director of the Northcoast Environmental Center, located in Arcata, California, for thirty years, 1976 to 2006. His position at the Center demonstrates his true passion for the natural world and conservation. Received by the Library shortly after his passing, Mr. McKay’s postcard collection illustrates this passion with beautiful imagery of Northwestern California scenery and wildlife. Interns and volunteers the the Humboldt State University Library are currently working on the digitization of this collection but for now please enjoy the above selection of some of McKay’s fascination.

For more information about this gorgeous collection visit the Humboldt State University library website, or go to http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/McKayPostcardsAid.html#biographical

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Today in uncommon news, our student assistants found these two newspaper articles about some rather odd and ambitious crimes. How a street sweeper from Los Angeles could have been successfully transported to Aurora, Colorado, is still unclear to us but it makes for an interesting read nonetheless.

The top article is from The San Mateo Times, Fri 27 Jun 1969

The bottom article is from The San Francisco Chronicle, Wed 1 Mar 1972

To find more funny newspaper articles, search through our Humboldt Room pamphlet collections here.

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#LoveTrumpsHate #notmypresident #HSULibrary #Humboldt (at Humboldt State University)

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#NotMyPresident #notCalifornia's President Not #Humboldt's either. #LoveTrumpsHate #always There's a #march today Starting 2 o'clock #HSULibrary #BeThere (at Humboldt State University)