Bob Mueller of Minneapolis has offered to share some of his ephemera collection with us. Over the coming weeks he’ll share information and related pictures or articles. This promises to be an interesting educational process. As an introduction Bob writes:

When Alan asked me to share my library with other members, I told him I would.
My library has taken my mother and I 40 years to accumulate. I have been to the Rakow Library and many others to gather the information that I now have. I have now over 3,000 items in this small library.

The great importance to this library is not the size but what is in it. There are photos, articles and pamphlets that are more help than most people might think.
As I was talking to Alan today he supposed that I must get my articles from the regular antique magazines. I told him “no”. I told him I had just received an articles about shades from a magazine I had never hear of, “Old House Journal”. Why would this magazine have something about shades? Maybe because the magazine has to do with old houses. But that is just a small part of my library. The library is no different or better than other ones that are out there. I have just worked very hard to put it together. The library becomes very important to me, in that if I am at an antique show, see an item I think is Steuben, I then can go home, take a look at some of my notebooks and then go from there.
The nicest part of this library to me is I can read all of the articles, photos, etc. and see how other people felt, or viewed Mr. Carder at the time the article was written. Many articles will bring up something not really mentioned before. I can go on about the library, but I feel you have a good idea of what I am trying to get across to you, and how it can help us.
More to come in a week****