New Manuscript Finding Aids, August 2025
The Manuscripts Division, including grad student intern Naomi Yu, have processed many archival collections that have recently been made discoverable online. The detailed finding aids they have created for each collection will be vital for future researchers utilizing our digital search tools.
Conservation of “A new map of Texas, Oregon and California”
In this Q&A, Clements Conservator Julie Fremuth and Curator of Maps & Graphics Sierra Laddusaw discuss a significant 1800s map of Texas, Oregon, and California, sharing insights on its historical value and the conservation work that our copy required.
Introducing the Vogel Collection of Historic Images of Engineering & Industry
The Graphics Division here at the William L. Clements Library has recently made available the collection of Robert M. Vogel, which contains more than 24,000 items related to industrial and mechanical engineering.
New Manuscripts Finding Aids, June 2025
The staff of the Clements Library's Manuscripts Division have been organizing and describing a wide variety of collections these past few months, making materials ranging from a teenage boy's sketchbook to the treatment records of horse surgeons available for research.Nannie S. Newman papers, 1864-1980 (majority within 1880-1929) This collection includes correspondence, documents, and more relating to the life and career of Nannie S. Newman, a seamstress, prison matron at the Colorado State...
Clements Library announces 2025-2026 Fellowships
The William L. Clements Library is delighted to announce the awardees for the 2025-26 competition for research fellowships. The 31 projects that have been selected to receive fellowship support will bring scholars at all career stages--from undergraduates to senior faculty--to Ann Arbor to conduct primary source research in the library's remarkable collections. As is always the case, many of the more than 100 applications we received were richly deserving of support, and we wish that we could...
New Graphics Finding Aids, Winter 2025
More finding aids have been made available for Clements Library’s Graphics Division collections. Here are some of the highlights!Cover and page of The T. E. Hecht California views photograph album highlighting street views of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake.T. E. Hecht California Views Photograph Album (ca. 1856-1900) The T. E. Hecht California views photograph album contains approximately 234 copies of photographs of Californian scenery originally produced by various photographers...
U-M Clements Library announces a new exhibit on the Battles of Lexington & Concord coinciding with the 250th anniversary
The William L. Clements Library’s new exhibition, Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 features historic handwritten letters, documents, and artwork. Opening on April 18, 2025, it commemorates the 250th anniversary of the military hostilities that began the Revolutionary War. The Clements is uniquely positioned to tell this story, as it has some of the strongest Revolutionary War holdings of any library, particularly those pertaining to the British side of the war.On display is the...
Thomas Gage Descendant Deborah Gage visits Clements Library
The Thomas Gage papers, which have been housed at the Clements Library since William L. Clements himself purchased and donated them in 1937, give unique insight into the Revolutionary War from the British perspective. However, they also greatly inform the reader about everyday life in the colonies prior to the revolution. It is this aspect of the Gage story that Deborah Gage, a descendant of General Gage, focused on during A Conflict of Emotions: Thomas and Margaret Gage and the American Revolution on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
Graduate Student Intern Annika Dekker at Ephemera 45
Historic Visual Culture Graduate Assistant Annika Dekker describes her experience attending and speaking at Ephemera 45, the Ephemera Society of America’s annual conference.
Newly Cataloged Books, Winter 2025
The Book Division has been hard at work making rare and historic books available for research. Check out some of our newly cataloged works from 2025!