Tompkins
County Museum

Gift Shop

Consider The History Center Book Store your source for gifts with the local flavor of Tompkins County. We carry variety of books, toys, and treasures that are perfect for the holidays or anytime. And remember - History Center members receive a 10% discount!

To place a credit card order order over the phone, call (607) 273-8284 x 2, Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday, 11-5 or e-mail welcome@thehistorycenter.net.

Eight Square Tote Bag

The newest item in the store is the eye-catching and handy Eight Square Schoolhouse tote bag. These spacious classic cotton box totes feature stylish black trim, heavy-duty double carrying straps, and a roomy outside pocket. Best of all, they sport an interesting and attractive sketch of the Eight Square Schoolhouse, circa 1890. Made exclusively for The History Center, these totes are practical and stylish and can handle anything from your laptop or library books to groceries or beach gear. At only $12.95 each, they're a bargain.

Photographic Reprints

Want to take home a little local history and hang it up for others to see? Are you looking for that perfectly unique gift for someone who loves Tompkins County? The History Center has over 100,000 photographic images in its collections, historic images that record almost every aspect of life in Tompkins County from the early 19th century right up to today. Reprints of photographs from our collections make fascinating conversation pieces and delightful gifts. Photographs available for browsing Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 11 AM until 5 PM.

Some orders require negative set-up fee of $10.00. Sales tax added to all orders. Orders require processing, so place them early!

Books

• The Photographs of Frederick G. Marcham, by John Marcham. $21.95.
• Farmboy: hard work and good times on a farm that helped change Northeast agriculture, by John Babcock. Edited by John Marcham. $21.95.
• Cayuga Lake: Past, Present, and Future, by Carol. U. Sisler.
  $19.95.
• The Towns of Tompkins County: From Podunk to the Magnetic Springs, edited by Jane Marsh Dieckmann.
  $14.95.
• Ithaca's Neighborhoods: The Rhine, the Hill and Goose Pasture, edited by Carol U. Sisler, Margaret Hobbie, and Jane Marsh Dieckmann. $9.95.
• A Short History of Tompkins County, by Jane Marsh Dieckmann.
  $7.95.
• Images of Rural Life: Photographs of Verne Morton.
  $26.95.
• Ithaca Then & Now, by Merrill Hesch and Richard Pieper. From McBooks Press. Paperback. $24.95.
• Lehigh Valley Memories: A Tour of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in New York's Finger Lakes Region, 1941-1959, by David Marcham. $19.95.