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125 Treasures from our Collections - July 2016
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125 Treasures from our Collections - July 2016

Online Exhibitions
David Oswald
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125 Treasures from our Collections - July 2016
Online Exhibitions
125 Treasures from our Collections - July 2016
For this month's library history treasure we look at Aberdeen's mobile library service that emerged in the post-WWII period.

Our second treasure is a 1923 city improvement plan showing the proposed developments that would create the Beach Ballroom and the beachfront as we know it.

This month, The Dickens Fellowship will hold their international conference in the Granite City and we're taking this opportunity to re-visit Charles Dickens and his work. The next treasure is a compendium of illustrations of his work called Scenes and Characters from the work of Charles Dickens.

Aberdeen City Libraries hold a small collection of original ship logbooks and one of these is for the maiden voyage of iron clad gunboat, the Ho Sho Maru, from Aberdeen to Nagasaki in 1868. The ship was brokered by Fraserburgh born Thomas Blake Glover, built in Aberdeen and travelled to a Japan undergoing momentous upheavals.

The final treasure is our collections of programmes for Harry Gordon's Entertainers. Harry Gordon was once one of Aberdeen's most famous performers and his Pavilion at the beach was a staple of the city in the summer.

If you have any questions or comments about the exhibition please use the comment button or get in touch at localstudies@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
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Items included in this Online Exhibition
Treasure 62: City of Aberdeen Links and Sea Beach Layout Plan showing Proposed Development (August 1923)
Treasure 63: Scenes and Characters from the work of Charles Dickens (1908)
Treasure 61: Aberdeen City Mobile Library Service
Treasure 64: Ho Sho Maru Logbook (1869)