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...
by Clements Library | Mar 26, 2013 | Exhibits
The Clements Library is pleased to offer a new online exhibit, The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th Century America, curated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of Maps. This exhibit was originally on display from October 15, 2012...
by Clements Library | Mar 4, 2013 | Exhibits
Recent Acquisitions: Building on the Clements CollectionsMarch 4 – July 12, 2013Curated by Brian Leigh DunniganAssociate Director and Curator of MapsThe William L. Clements Library is one of the University of Michigan’s “collecting units”—libraries, museums, and...
