Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Division Curatorial Assistant In the late evening hours of July 25, 1814, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812 commenced, continuing until after midnight. Unplanned and fought in the dark of night, the Battle of...
The Book Division recently received a gift from James E. Laramy of twelve late 19th century children’s books. The collection previously belonged to his grandmother’s family of Grand Rapids, Michigan. These books, which include readers, arithmetic books,...
In 2012, the Clements Library received a generous gift from Charles and Julia Eisendrath, with an appraised total value of $150,000. The gift includes a page from the Gutenberg Bible and a first edition set of Premier Établissement de la Foy dans la Nouvelle-France,...
The Clements Library has just acquired a very rare and possibly unique plan of Detroit from the last years of the Michigan Territory. All that is known about Part of the City of Detroit, Michigan is that it was lithographed and published in New York at 22 Nassau...
Guest post by Sarah Fitzgerald, Book Division volunteer The library has recently acquired the Vermont Historical Gazetteer, compiled by Abby Maria Hemenway. This five-volume set is a remarkable accomplishment for a 19th century woman. Hemenway’s goal was...
The May/June 2012 issue of Michigan History Magazine includes an announcement about an important Clements Library acquisition. Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphic Materials, reports that daguerreotypes of Eber Brock Ward and his family were recently donated to the...
Warin. Carte de la prise de la Grenade par Mr. Cmte. D’Estaing. le 5 Juillet 1779.The Map Division of the Clements Library has recently acquired a rare Revolutionary War-era manuscript map of Grenada in the West Indies. This battle plan may provide the only...
William L. Clements Library Purchases Significant Collection of Revolutionary War Papers: Sometimes good things really do come to those who wait–and who never give upImage from New York Times article about the Strachey papers.On October 15, the William L....
The Clements Library has recently acquired a hand-colored lithograph of a wolverine from John James Audubon’s The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (New York: 1845-48). It is now on display inside the back entrance of the building. Appropriately, as the...
