by Cheney Schopieray | Feb 21, 2019 | Acquisitions, Featured, Manuscripts
Research projects can begin in a variety of different ways. On one end of the spectrum, a query about some aspect of the past may prompt the scholar to seek out and identify relevant primary sources that help answer their question. On the opposite end, a scholar may...
by Clements Library | Mar 29, 2018 | Acquisitions, Featured, Maps
The Clements Library map collection comprises some 30,000 examples of cartography with American subject matter drawn or printed between the years 1492 and 1900. This body of material represents a variety of plans and maps ranging from the most detailed small-scale...
by Clements Library | Sep 28, 2016 | Acquisitions, Maps
It seems as if the Director and curators of the Clements Library are always searching—searching for new documentation to make accessible to scholars; searching for collections or parts of collections that they know or hope are still “out there” in the hands of...
by Clements Library | Sep 30, 2015 | Acquisitions, Books
Post by Emiko Hastings, Curator of BooksThe Book Division is pleased to announce a significant new acquisition, Diego de Valadés’ Rhetorica Christiana (1579). This purchase, courtesy of Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts, fills an important gap...
by Clements Library | Sep 28, 2015 | Acquisitions, Books, Graphics, Manuscripts, Maps
Post by Brian L. Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsThe Clements Library is known to historians and scholars of other disciplines as a primary source repository of “Americana” dating between 1492 and 1900. For all too many members of the history and the...
by Clements Library | Apr 1, 2015 | Acquisitions, Books, Holidays
Rare 151st plate from Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Detail of Plate CXXIX.Post by Aprille Phule, Curator of Cryptozoological Collections and BibliochicaneryThe University of Michigan Library marks its formal beginning with the purchase in 1839 of...
by Clements Library | Oct 27, 2014 | Acquisitions, Graphics
Post by Clayton Lewis, Curator of Graphic MaterialsDavid Claypoole Johnston. Col. Pluck. [Boston?] : Pendleton, lithographer/publisher, circa 1825.A pair of recently acquired prints point to a little known episode in American military history and pose questions about...
by Clements Library | Jul 25, 2014 | Acquisitions, Manuscripts, Today in history
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...
by Clements Library | Oct 8, 2013 | Acquisitions, Books
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,...
