by Clements Library | Feb 6, 2017 | Graphics
The old halfway house at the junction of Broadway, 8th Ave. & 59th St. “If any one among us may calculate surely on a sublunary immortality, Mr. VALENTINE is the man. He has linked his name indissolubly with one of the greatest cities in the world in a...
by Clements Library | Dec 21, 2016 | Graphics, Library Work, News
Image credit: Claire MilldrumPost by Noa Kasman, Joyce Bonk Library AssistantOn the mornings of November 14th and November 18th, the University of Michigan’s Society of American Archivists (SAA) Student Chapter and the William L. Clements Library organized a two-part...
by Clements Library | Sep 30, 2016 | Graphics
As our nation cycles through a particularly contentious political year, the collections of the Clements Library remind us that this is not the first time. Evidence of political pyrotechnics from past elections can be found across all divisions of the Clements Library....
by Clements Library | Jul 6, 2016 | Graphics, Manuscripts
Balmy summer weather has finally arrived in Ann Arbor, and the staff at the Clements Library are enjoying the season’s warmth and sunshine. The joys of sipping lemonade in the shade and lounging in hammocks are tempered by the less popular harbingers of...
by Clements Library | Jun 14, 2016 | Books, Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts, Maps
By Emiko Hastings, Curator of BooksIn honor of Flag Day, we share a variety of U.S. flag-related imagery from across the Clements Library collections. Flag Day, established by President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United...
by Clements Library | Mar 18, 2016 | Graphics, Manuscripts, Today in history
Guest post by Kayla Carucci, Book Division student assistant and graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Information. With the move from Ellsworth back to campus finally complete, the Clements staff and volunteers grow more excited by the day for the...
by Clements Library | Dec 21, 2015 | Books, Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts
The Clements staff are busy packing offices and preparing collections for our move back to campus, an all-encompassing task that makes the days pass far too quickly. We take this opportunity to step back from bubble wrap and boxes to reflect on the magic of the...
by Clements Library | Oct 29, 2015 | Books, Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts
With Halloween right around the corner, here at the Clements Library our thoughts have turned to all things spooky that send shivers up your spine. While perhaps not as sinister as ghouls and goblins, the bare human skeleton has a disconcerting effect all its own that...
by Clements Library | Sep 28, 2015 | Acquisitions, Books, Graphics, Manuscripts, Maps
Post by Brian L. Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsThe Clements Library is known to historians and scholars of other disciplines as a primary source repository of “Americana” dating between 1492 and 1900. For all too many members of the history and the...
