by Clements Library | Mar 27, 2019 | Exhibits, Graphics, Manuscripts, Publications
The Clements Library exhibition “Over There” with the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War is open through April 26, 2019, on Fridays from 10am to 4pm. The following material is excerpted from a pamphlet produced to accompany the...
by Clements Library | May 17, 2017 | Exhibits
Many of you who visited our previous exhibit might have participated in the trivia challenge What Is That Thing? We invited visitors to identify objects in case 16. We can now reveal their names and purposes! Read what the mystery objects were below: First...
by Clements Library | Jul 1, 2016 | Exhibits
Tobias Lear, A Minute Account of the Last Sickness and Death of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia: December 14, 1799. Tobias Lear Papers.Just inside the great bronze doors of the Clements Library, visitors will find an exhibit about the collecting history of...
by Clements Library | Jun 8, 2016 | Exhibits
“So Once Were We”: Death in Early AmericaMortality is a useful lens through which we may view many aspects of early American society. “So Once Were We”: Death in Early America explores American practices and traditions for coping with death,...
by Clements Library | Sep 15, 2015 | Exhibits, Maps
Guest post by Allison K. Lange, assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. She helped curate the Leventhal Map Center’s “We Are One” exhibition. Cantonment of the Forces in North America 1766. 1766. Manuscript, pen and ink and watercolor,...
by Clements Library | Jun 23, 2015 | Exhibits
Curated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan The Clements Library is pleased to share a new online exhibit, 1759: Britain’s Year of Victories, based on an exhibit that was on display in the Avenir Great Room of the William L. Clements Library from June 8 to October 9, 2009....
by Clements Library | May 7, 2015 | Exhibits, Maps
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce its participation in a new exhibition, We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, opening May 2, 2015, at the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Featuring...
by Clements Library | Apr 24, 2014 | Exhibits, Graphics
This week, an exhibit called In Fine Feather: Birds, Art & Science opens at the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibit, coinciding with the Biggest Week in American Birding, highlights the intersection of natural science and art in the pursuit of describing and...
by Clements Library | Apr 22, 2013 | Exhibits
Now on display in the center cases of the Main Room:From My Collection to Yours: Provenance of Treasures in the Clements LibraryMany of the rare books and pamphlets in the Clements Library have provenance trails to great collectors, dealers, bibliographers, and...
