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Past Treasures of the Month
Nathan’s Department Store - March 2026
George Roy Clough - February 2026
Triple XXX Root Beer & Cola - January 2026
Vintage Christmas Cards - December 2025
WWI & II Veteran Medals - November 2025
Special Display from the Galveston Naval Museum
The Buccaneer Hotel - September 2025
Jean Carruthers Wetta - August 2025
Galveston Board Game - July 2025
Lalique Glass - June 2025
Sea-Arama Marineworld - May 2025
Garten Verein - April 2025
Victorian Hair Jewelry - March 2025
Junior Mardi Gras King Costume - February 2025
Sculptures by David W. Moore - January 2025
Victorian Ice Skates - December 2024
Hotel Galvez - November 2024
The Texas Navy - October 2024
Galveston's Seawall - September 2024
Surveyor's Compass - August 2024
Vintage Galveston Souvenirs - July 2024
Jack Johnson Cigarette Cards - June 2024
The American Protective League Badges - May 2024
Japanese Fairy Tale Books - April 2024
Cross Stitch Sampler - March 2024
Valentine's Day Gifts - February 2024
The Grand 1894 Opera House - January 2024
Charles Dickens' "The Life of Our Lord" Scrapbook - December 2023
Molinillos - November 2023
Peking Glass - October 2023
Dry Plates Featuring Historic Galveston Architecture - September 2023
Gearhart Knitting Machine - August 2023
Glove Stretcher - July 2023
The Sailmaking Tools of Captain William Scrimgeour - May 2023
Trench Art: Historic Souvenirs from World War I - April 2023
Shrimping, the Gulf Coast, and a talk with the Texas Shrimp Diva - March 2023
Central High School - February 2023
The Balinese Room - January 2023
Dickens On The Strand - December 2022
The Beer that’s Liquid Food: Galveston Brewing Company - November 2022
17th Century Warming Pan - October 2022
Objects From the 1900 Storm - September 2022
Galveston Trolley - Past to Present - August 2022
Confederate Currency - July 2022
Pride Month: Mardi Gras Silk Stocking Ball - June 2022
Rabbi Henry Cohen - May 2022
Historic Easter Card Collection of Z.L. White - April 2022
Jan Coggeshall and the Equal Rights Amendment - March 2022
Flying Shuttles & the Underrepresentation of African American Women in Early Textile Production - February 2022
Consulates in Galveston - January 2022
Sigmund (Sig) Jakucki - December 2021
Schmidt’s Garden - June 2021
Galveston’s World War I Memorial - May 2021
The Murder and Mystery at Guzzi’s Store - April 2021
Maria C. Kimball - March 2021
Lillian Davis and the Rosenberg Library Colored Branch - February 2021
Texas Nail and Wire Company - January 2021
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Diorama - December 2020
The Galveston Hurricanes Football Team - November 2020
Trinity Episcopal Church - October 2020
Bell from Mission Concepción - September 2020
Streater’s Place - August 2020
Murdoch’s Bathhouse - July 2020
Galveston’s Railroad Depots - June 2020
Portrait of Isabella Dyer Kopperl - May 2020
The Galveston City Party - April 2020
Bettie Brown’s 1902 Transatlantic Voyage - March 2020
Rosenberg Library Remembers Norris Wright Cuney During Black History Month - February 2020
Central Christian Church - January 2020
A Christmas Gift from 1905 - December 2019
The W.H.P.A. Horse Show of 1906 - November 2019
The Joseph Seinsheimer House - October 2019
John Egert & Son - September 2019
Civil War Artillery Shell from the Illies Property - August 2019
Baxter & Wilson - July 2019
Jessie McGuire Dent - June 2019
The Galveston Municipal Flag - May 2019
Horace P. Nettleton’s Marine Museum - April 2019
Galveston’s 1938 Mardi Gras Celebration
U.S.S. Texas - February 2019
W.K. Hebert & Co. - January 2019
John H. Hutchings Presentation Silver - December 2018
The D.A.R. in Galveston - September 2018
The Beach Hotel - October 2018
Vintage Pepper Mill from the Balinese Room - September 2018
1850 Galveston Bay Survey Post - August 2018
Galveston’s July 1987 Recall Vote - July 2018
June P. Ross - June 2018
Fides Senechal’s First Communion Memorabilia - May 2018
Saengerfest and the Salamander Club of Galveston - April 2018
Cornerstone from St. Paul German Presbyterian Church - March 2018
Galveston Artist Emil Bunjes - February 2018
Historic Wood Paver from Galveston’s Market Street - January 2018
Galveston Artillery Ball Souvenirs - December 2017
Turkey Tail Fan - November 2017
John Charles League - October 2017
Remembering Labor Day - September 2017
Treasures from Japan - August 2017
Antique Eyeglasses - July 2017
Andrew Fraser - June 2017
Ingraham Mantle Clock - May 2017
Herbert Allaire Robertson (1877 – 1920) - April 2017
Antique Pocket Watches - March 2017
The Rosenberg Free School - February 2017
Vintage Ballot Boxes - November 2016
Kirwin High School and Msgr. James M. Kirwin - October 2016
Rosenberg Library Remembers the Opening of the San Luis - September 2016
Galveston’s Cotton Carnival - August 2016
Rosenberg Library Remembers Harry Bennett - July 2016
Galveston’s Garden of Tokio - June 2016
President Nixon and Watergate - April 2016
General Rusk Presentation Pitcher - March 2016
John Hutchings Sealy - February 2016
Rosenberg Library Highlights El Mina Temple - January 2016
Rosenberg Library gets in the Holiday Spirit - December 2015
Galveston’s Wagon Bridge - November 2015
Jean Scrimgeour Morgan - October 2015
Rosenberg Library Honors Pioneer of Galveston Public Education - September 2015
James B. Stubbs - August 2015
Star Dairy - June 2015
The Legacy of Alfreda Houston - July 2015
Vintage License Plates - May 2015
Texas Heroes Monument - April 2015
“Beau” Bell’s 1934 Championship Ring - March 2015
A Tribute to Lise Darst - February 2015
Capture of USS Harriet Lane - January 2015
The Historic St. Mary’s Infirmary - November 2014
Galveston’s First Middle School - October 2014
Tribute to Felix Stella - September 2014
The Tremont Hotel - August 2014
Rosenberg Library Remembers Trustee John Goggan - July 2014
Avenue L Missionary Baptist Church - June 2014
Rosenberg Library Displays Vintage Bathing Suit - May 2014
Rosenberg Library Honors its First Librarian - April 2014
Victorian Silverware - March 2014
Tribute to Mr. Mardi Gras - February 2014
The 144-Year History of the First Public Library in Texas - January 2014
The Legacy of Emma Lee - December 2013
J.F. Smith & Bros. Company - November 2013
Silver Service - October 2013
Vintage Ladies’ Hats - September 2013
Conquering the Causeway - August 2013
The Elite Café - July 2013
Galveston Buccaneers - June 2013
Galveston Cotton Exchange - May 2013
Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata) Rostra - April 2013
Justus Zahn, Galveston Photographer - March 2013
1949 Mardi Gras - February 2013
Ursuline Academy Artifacts - January 2013
Joseph Imhof Custom Greeting Cards - December 2012
E.S. Levy & Company - October 2012
Japanese Netsukes - September 2012
1872 Presentation Silver Belonging to Henry Rosenberg - June 2012
Colonel Marius S. Chataignon Memorabilia - May 2012
Texas Heroes: An Instructive Game - April 2012
Architectural Remnants from the Morris Lasker Residence - March 2012
Play-A-Sax - January 2012
Galveston-Houston Electric Railway Company Interurban Model Train - December 2011
Miniature Portrait of the First Mayor of Galveston John Melville Allen - November 2011
Invitation to the 1890 Veiled Prophet’s Ball - October 2011
Assortment of Late Nineteenth Century Police Relics - September 2011
Graphophone, ca. 1898
Georgian Sugar Tongs, ca. 1776 - July 2011
Gregorian Telescope, ca. 1760 - June 2011
Duck Stamps
Sam Houston’s Ivory Walking Stick - March 2011
Civil War Dental Surgeon’s Kit - February 2011
Hotel Galvez Ceramic Spittoon - December 2010
Nineteenth Century Barrel Butter Churn - November 2010
Moroccan Scimitars - October 2010
Samuel May Williams Nineteenth Century Waffle Iron - September 2010
Neapolitan Mandolin from Galveston Mandolin Orchestra - August 2010
Key to the City of Niigata, Japan - July 2010
Barong Sword - June 2010
Nineteenth Century Mustache Cups - May 2010
19th Century New Mexican Retablo of St. Peter of Alcantara - April 2010
1886 Novelette Triplex Camera - March 2010
Carved Peruvian Gourd - February 2010
Christmas Cheer with Purity Ice Cream - December 2009
Antique Miniature Fire Pumper - November 2009
Early 20th Century Crystal Ball - October 2009
Cel animation of “Sneezy” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - September 2008
Early Foot Stocks on Galveston Island - July 2009
The Badgett Quadruplets, Galveston’s Sweethearts - September 2008
Buddhist Artifacts - August 2008
Ancient Egyptian Artifacts at Rosenberg Library - July 2008
Stereoscopes: Entertainment from the Past - June 2008
LeRoy Colombo (1905 – 1974) - May 2008
Galveston’s Old Drugstores - April 2008
St. Patrick - March 2008
Vintage Mardi Gras Gown Sketches - February 2008
Japanese Tsubas - January 2008
Magic Lanterns - December 2007
The Washington Guards - July 2007
Glamour, Glitz, and Gambling: Galveston’s Gaming Days - May 2007
Antique Beer Steins - April 2007
Eanger Irving Couse - March 2007
Vintage Valentines - February 2007
American Art Pottery - January 2007
WWI Trench Art - December 2006
August Rollfing: One of Galveston’s Forgotten Artists - November 2006
Australian Aboriginal Artifacts - October 2006
1871 Communion Set from German Presbyterian Church - September 2006
Pueblo Indian Kachina Dolls - August 2006
Artifacts from Historic New England - June 2006
The Battle of Galveston - May 2006
Take Me Out to the Ball Game - April 2006
Mardi Gras Galveston: 1867 – 2006
