by Clements Library | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured, Fellowships, Manuscripts
Guest post by Catherine Treesh, Clements Library 2018 Price Fellow Over the course of 1774 and 1775, letters from distressed governors flooded General Thomas Gage’s headquarters in Boston. Colonial officials all across British North America were watching imperial...
by Cheney Schopieray | Apr 1, 2019 | Featured, Manuscripts, News
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce that five of its manuscripts collections are digitized and accessible online. These collections mark the beginning of the Library’s efforts to provide free and open digital access to its collections of...
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 | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Manuscripts
As one of the Clements Library’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) interns, I was tasked with conserving and providing descriptions of manuscript collections that feature historically underrepresented perspectives and subject matter. The collections...
by Clements Library | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Graphics
Portrait courtesy of IMSLP.org The earliest published African-American composer in the United States is Francis “Frank” Johnson (1792-1844), whose international musical career first flourished in Philadelphia, the city of his birth. Johnson lived through the era of...
by Emiko Hastings | Jan 10, 2019 | Books, Featured
Most of the 18th and 19th century American newspapers in the Clements Library collections have bindings that are functional rather than artistic. Many volumes have been rebound in 20th century olive green cloth and either green paper or plain gray boards. The older...
by Jayne Ptolemy | Nov 20, 2018 | Featured, Graphics, Manuscripts, Today in history
Nestled in the Clements Library’s Oliver Hazard Perry Papers are remarkable documents detailing the commodore’s naval career, with some 200 pieces highlighting his service in the War of 1812. In September of 1813 he famously won the Battle of Lake Erie, a...
by Clements Library | Sep 4, 2018 | Featured, Manuscripts
One of the great joys about working at the William L. Clements Library is that while we preserve historical records and make them accessible for research, we also get to explore and discover the human experience across time. Stories of heartbreak and joy, historical...
by Clements Library | Aug 6, 2018 | Featured, Graphics
People often say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. At first glance, the rationale behind this expression would seem to have played a critical role in the creative process of many European and American artists, etchers, engravers and lithographers of...
