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Commercial Cartography

Commercial Cartography

By Jamal Dillman-Hasso. Buried within a small, leather-bound memorandum book in a half-foot but historiographically rich box of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) materials at the William L. Clements Library lies a two-page map, charted circa 1779 by John Thomas of London. In...
Panting After History

Panting After History

By Jonathan Beecher Field In the fall of 2023, I had the privilege of being the Laramy Fellow in American Visual Culture at the Clements Library to pursue my interest in their extensive 19th-century ephemera holdings. My research trip to the Clements was part of a...