by Clements Library | Aug 26, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts, Volunteers
The William L. Clements Library would like to extend its sincere thanks to the Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) for volunteering to transcribe the Revolutionary War papers of Col. Jonathan Chase, of the...
by Clements Library | Jun 2, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Library Work, Maps
Clements Library Conservator Julie Fremuth provides a follow-up to our recent post about the arrival of 14 tightly-rolled sea charts and early conservation steps. The initial post Conservation Close-up: Sea Charts used in Whaling discusses Fremuth’s months-long...
by Clements Library | Mar 25, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Library Work, Maps
While our team adheres to restrictions from the current public health crisis, this post replicates one of the Clements Library’s most popular Facebook posts ever. The post was shared 40 times and reached thousands of Facebook users when it was published on...
by Jayne Ptolemy | Feb 19, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts
It can be easy to think of the archive as a self-contained space, where staff collect, conserve, and process collections while researchers come to quietly study them. But the historical figures whose papers fill the Clements Library stacks have far-reaching influence...
by Jakob Dopp | Dec 23, 2019 | Acquisitions, Collections, Featured, Graphics
Graphics Cataloger Jakob Dopp outlines his observations from researching and cataloging hundreds of photos from a collection recently acquired by the Clements Library. Learn more about this collection from the University of Michigan’s Press Release and Video. Some...
by Clements Library | Feb 27, 2013 | Collections, News
The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA) will be moving from the Clements Library to the University Library, where it will make its new home in Special Collections. Shaped by the donation of a rich assemblage of cookbooks, menus, and other material...
by Clements Library | Feb 7, 2013 | Collections, Public Programs
Lecture by Sakina Hughes, Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies”Celebrating African American Authors in the Culinary World”Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibrarySakina...
by Clements Library | Jan 8, 2013 | Collections, Exhibits
Now on display in the center cases of the Main Room:Making Their Own Way: African Americans in the Culinary World With a selection of the Longone Archive’s African American–authored works from the early 19th to the late 20th century, this exhibit presents the...
by Clements Library | Oct 18, 2012 | Collections, Library Work
JJ Jacobson has been Curator of American Culinary History at the Clements since 2009. She has many favorites from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, including cookbooks, domestic manuals, etiquette manuals, and menus. Her current favorite is Ten Dollars...