by Clements Library | Oct 18, 2024 | Collections, Graphics, Library Work
By Annika Dekker One of my favorite parts of working at the William L. Clements Library as a graduate student assistant is getting to explore types of artifacts that I had never heard of before. One of my first projects here was to create a finding aid for our Rewards...
by Isaac Burgdorf | Sep 9, 2024 | Collections, Exhibits, Graphics
Political satire is not a gentle art—it is meant to leave a mark. Since the heyday of James Gillray and William Hogarth in 18th-century England, visual satirists have been able to “say” things about political leaders in their illustrations that would get writers censored (or worse). As such, it has played an important role in American political culture for over two centuries. Many of the qualities that we most readily associate with political leaders in our past come to us from satirical illustrations, not from things those leaders actually did. This exhibit invites you to think about how visual satire has shaped the way you think about political life in America. What can visual artists say about politics that writers can’t? What role does visual satire play in American political life in an age when most of what we read (and see) is online, rather than in a newspaper?
by Clements Library | Aug 30, 2024 | Fellowships, Graphics
By Jonathan Beecher Field In the fall of 2023, I had the privilege of being the Laramy Fellow in American Visual Culture at the Clements Library to pursue my interest in their extensive 19th-century ephemera holdings. My research trip to the Clements was part of a...
by Chris Ridgway | Apr 4, 2024 | Conservation, Events, Featured, Graphics, Today in history
It’s been said that witnessing an event born of the natural world makes poets of scientists and scientists of poets. Americans will experience a total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024. Perhaps this will be your first? Maybe you are already an eclipse hunter and...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Graphics, Library Work, Maps, News
In January 2024, Sierra Laddusaw joined the University of Michigan community as the Curator for Maps and Graphics at the Clements Library. Sierra comes to Michigan from University of Arkansas – Fort Smith where she was the Scholarly Communication Librarian....
by Jakob Dopp | Aug 7, 2023 | Collections, Graphics
One of the most rewarding aspects of working at a place like the Clements Library is that you never know what you might stumble across on any given day. For instance, last summer I noticed a box out of the corner of my eye with the word “Autochromes” scribbled in...
by Clements Library | Nov 10, 2022 | Featured, Graphics
Claire Danna is the current Joyce Bonk Fellow at the Clements library and a graduate student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. Their primary work at the Clements has involved scanning the Tinder postcard collection and helping to shape the...
by Clements Library | Aug 30, 2022 | Acquisitions, Featured, Graphics, Manuscripts, News
In October 2021, the Clements Library obtained a cabinet card portrait of one of the famous late-19th-century “Oregon Long-Haired Wonder” horses. It is a beautiful photograph, showing this chestnut-colored Clydesdale with his hair braided and done up with...
by Clements Library | Aug 29, 2022 | Acquisitions, Collections, Graphics, Library Work, News
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections in our Graphics Division are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room. The Clements Library is now open for research by appointment. All researchers are encouraged...