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Past Treasures

• Dry Plates Featuring Historic Galveston Architecture
• Gearhart Knitting Machine
• Glove Stretcher
• Sea-Arama Marineworld
• The Sailmaking Tools of Captain William Scrimgeour
• Trench Art: Historic Souvenirs from World War I
• Shrimping, the Gulf Coast, and a talk with the Texas Shrimp Diva
• Central High School
• The Balinese Room
• Dickens On The Strand
• The Beer that’s Liquid Food: Galveston Brewing Company
• 17th Century Warming Pan
• Objects From the 1900 Storm
• Galveston Trolley - Past to Present
• Confederate Currency
• Pride Month: Mardi Gras Silk Stocking Ball
• Rabbi Henry Cohen
• Historic Easter Card Collection of Z.L. White
• Jan Coggeshall and the Equal Rights Amendment
• Flying Shuttles & the Underrepresentation of African American Women in Early Textile Production
• Consulates in Galveston
• Sigmund (Sig) Jakucki
• Schmidt’s Garden
• Galveston’s World War I Memorial
• The Murder and Mystery at Guzzi’s Store
• Maria C. Kimball
• Lillian Davis and the Rosenberg Library Colored Branch
• Texas Nail and Wire Company
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears Diorama
• The Galveston Hurricanes Football Team
• Trinity Episcopal Church
• Bell from Mission Concepción
• Streater’s Place
• Murdoch’s Bathhouse
• Galveston’s Railroad Depots
• Portrait of Isabella Dyer Kopperl
• The Galveston City Party
• Bettie Brown’s 1902 Transatlantic Voyage
• Rosenberg Library Remembers Norris Wright Cuney During Black History Month
• Central Christian Church
• A Christmas Gift from 1905
• The W.H.P.A. Horse Show of 1906
• The Joseph Seinsheimer House
• John Egert & Son
• Civil War Artillery Shell from the Illies Property
• Baxter & Wilson
• Jessie McGuire Dent
• The Galveston Municipal Flag
• Horace P. Nettleton’s Marine Museum
• Galveston’s 1938 Mardi Gras Celebration
• U.S.S. Texas
• W.K. Hebert & Co.
• John H. Hutchings Presentation Silver
• The D.A.R. in Galveston
• The Beach Hotel
• Vintage Pepper Mill from the Balinese Room
• 1850 Galveston Bay Survey Post
• Galveston’s July 1987 Recall Vote
• June P. Ross
• Fides Senechal’s First Communion Memorabilia
• Saengerfest and the Salamander Club of Galveston
• Cornerstone from St. Paul German Presbyterian Church
• Galveston Artist Emil Bunjes
• Historic Wood Paver from Galveston’s Market Street
• Galveston Artillery Ball Souvenirs
• Turkey Tail Fan
• John Charles League
• Remembering Labor Day
• Treasures from Japan
• Antique Eyeglasses
• Andrew Fraser
• Ingraham Mantle Clock
• Herbert Allaire Robertson (1877 – 1920)
• Antique Pocket Watches
• The Rosenberg Free School
• The Buccaneer Hotel
• The Christmas Card Collection of Z.L. White
• Vintage Ballot Boxes
• Kirwin High School and Msgr. James M. Kirwin
• Rosenberg Library Remembers the Opening of the San Luis
• Galveston’s Cotton Carnival
• Rosenberg Library Remembers Harry Bennett
• Galveston’s Garden of Tokio
• Nathan’s Department Store
• President Nixon and Watergate
• General Rusk Presentation Pitcher
• John Hutchings Sealy
• Rosenberg Library Highlights El Mina Temple
• Rosenberg Library gets in the Holiday Spirit
• Galveston’s Wagon Bridge
• Jean Scrimgeour Morgan
• Rosenberg Library Honors Pioneer of Galveston Public Education
• James B. Stubbs
• Star Dairy
• The Legacy of Alfreda Houston
• Vintage License Plates
• Texas Heroes Monument
• “Beau” Bell’s 1934 Championship Ring
• A Tribute to Lise Darst
• Capture of USS Harriet Lane
• Vintage Christmas Cards
• The Historic St. Mary’s Infirmary
• Galveston’s First Middle School
• Tribute to Felix Stella
• The Tremont Hotel
• Rosenberg Library Remembers Trustee John Goggan
• Avenue L Missionary Baptist Church
• Rosenberg Library Displays Vintage Bathing Suit
• Rosenberg Library Honors its First Librarian
• Victorian Silverware
• Tribute to Mr. Mardi Gras
• The 144-Year History of the First Public Library in Texas
• The Legacy of Emma Lee
• J.F. Smith & Bros. Company
• Silver Service
• Vintage Ladies’ Hats
• Conquering the Causeway
• The Elite Café
• Galveston Buccaneers
• Galveston Cotton Exchange
• Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata) Rostra
• Justus Zahn, Galveston Photographer
• 1949 Mardi Gras
• Ursuline Acadamy Artifacts
• Joseph Imhof Custom Greeting Cards
• Native American Jewelry
• E.S. Levy & Company
• Japanese Netsukes
• Spanish-American War Artifacts
• Galveston Brewing Company Artifacts
• 1872 Presentation Silver Belonging to Henry Rosenberg
• Colonel Marius S. Chataignon Memorabilia
• Texas Heroes: An Instructive Game
• Architectural Remnants from the Morris Lasker Residence
• Galveston’s Sea-Arama Marineworld Artifacts
• Play-A-Sax
• Galveston-Houston Electric Railway Company Interurban Model Train
• Miniature Portrait of the First Mayor of Galveston John Melville Allen
• Invitation to the 1890 Veiled Prophet’s Ball
• Assortment of Late Nineteenth Century Police Relics
• Graphophone, ca. 1898
• Georgian Sugar Tongs, ca. 1776
• Gregorian Telescope, ca. 1760
• Engelke Crockery & House Furnishings
• Duck Stamps
• Sam Houston’s Ivory Walking Stick
• Civil War Dental Surgeon’s Kit
• Cameroon Ceremonial Chalice
• Hotel Galvez Ceramic Spittoon
• Nineteenth Century Barrel Butter Churn
• Moroccan Scimitars
• Samuel May Williams Nineteenth Centry Waffle Iron
• Neapolitan Mandolin from Galveston Mandolin Orchestra
• Key to the City of Niigata, Japan
• Barong Sword
• Nineteenth Century Mustache Cups
• 19th Century New Mexican Retablo of St. Peter of Alcantara
• 1886 Novelette Triplex Camera
• Carved Peruvian Gourd
• Victorian Hair Jewelry
• Christmas Cheer with Purity Ice Cream
• Antique Miniature Fire Pumper
• Early 20th Century Crystal Ball
• Cel animation of “Sneezy” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Early Foot Stocks on Galveston Island
• The Badgett Quadruplets, Galveston’s Sweethearts
• Buddhist Artifacts
• Ancient Egyptian Artifacts at Rosenberg Library
• Stereoscopes: Entertainment from the Past
• LeRoy Colombo (1905 – 1974)
• Galveston’s Old Drugstores
• St. Patrick
• Vintage Mardi Gras Gown Sketches
• Japanese Tsubas
• Magic Lanterns
• The Washington Guards
• Galveston’s First Settlers: The Karankawa Indians
• Glamour, Glitz, and Gambling: Galveston’s Gaming Days
• Antique Beer Steins
• Eanger Irving Couse
• Vintage Valentines
• American Art Pottery
• WWII Trench Art
• August Rollfing: One of Galveston’s Forgotten Artists
• Australian Aboriginal Artifacts
• 1871 Communion Set from German Presbyterian Church
• Pueblo Indian Kachina Dolls
• Lalique Glass
• Artifacts from Historic New England
• The Battle of Galveston
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• Rosenberg Library to Begin "Treasure of the Month" Program
• Mardi Gras Galveston: 1867 – 2006