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Clements Library announces 2023-2024 Fellowships

Clements Library announces 2023-2024 Fellowships

The William L. Clements Library is delighted to announce 2023-2024 visiting research fellowship cohort: With 26 awards, this cohort will be the largest in the fellowship program’s history. Awardees include postdoctoral scholars and faculty from both public and private institutions, graduate students, independent researchers, public historians, and curators. The library will support long-term, short-term and week-long residential fellows over the coming academic year, and will also fund remote...

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New Manuscript Finding Aids: Winter 2023 Part One

New Manuscript Finding Aids: Winter 2023 Part One

Collections of manuscripts continue to be added to the Clements Library’s holdings to benefit the learning and research of our community of users. The most recent batch of new finding aids includes several thematic groupings, underscoring how archival collections speak to each other and work together to deepen our collective knowledge about the past. *   *   *Children and Education Materials that demonstrate educational practices have much to tell us about how children learned, what Americans...

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The 1893-1894 Tour of Linus, “The $100,000 Oregon Wonder” Horse

The 1893-1894 Tour of Linus, “The $100,000 Oregon Wonder” Horse

In October 2021, the Clements Library obtained a cabinet card portrait of one of the famous late-19th-century "Oregon Long-Haired Wonder" horses.  It is a beautiful photograph, showing this chestnut-colored Clydesdale with his hair braided and done up with ribbons, standing beside a currently unidentified man.  On its own, this photograph has something valuable to say about horses and their appearance in the late-19th-century United States, the value of unusual animals to entrepreneurs and...

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New Graphics Finding Aids: Fall 2022

New Graphics Finding Aids: Fall 2022

The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections in our Graphics Division are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room.  The Clements Library is now open for research by appointment. All researchers are encouraged to contact Clements Library staff for guidance on how to complete their research with both digital and physical materials. Please contact us with any questions about your research.  *   *   *  Wella and Pet Anderson...

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