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Rare atlas tops Library Jewels poll

Rare atlas tops Library Jewels poll

When it comes to our Library Jewels online polls, it’s hard to beat rare and really, really old. That was evident with the April poll, as a rare atlas nearly 500 years old easily won with 68 percent of the votes. Letters and photos of Secretary of Washington Territory Elwood Evans finished a distant second with 21 percent, followed by a poster honoring artist Christopher Stern (11 percent). We’ll start our May Archives Treasures blog series later this week.  

April Library Jewel #1: rare poster honoring late artist

April Library Jewel #1: rare poster honoring late artist

It’s time to show off three more State Library Jewels. With April being National Poetry Month, the first one is timely: a rare poster of a poem about Washington artist Christopher Stern, who died of cancer in 2006. The poster, a collaboration by Maralyn Crosetto of Day Moon Press and Mare Blocker, was printed at Day Moon Press in 2007 as a fund-raiser to help pay the medical bills for the late Chris Stern, who died in November 2006, at…

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