by Clements Library | Feb 14, 2014 | Graphics, Holidays
Happy Valentine’s Day to our readers! These Valentine’s Day postcards are from our ephemera collection. They are postmarked from 1907-1909 and were sent to Mr. Andrew Swords from several people.”We pledged our hearts my love and I. I in my arms the...
by Clements Library | Jan 6, 2014 | Graphics
The Great Snow Storm of Jan. 1857. Philadelphia: L.L. Magee, ca. 1857. This satirical print from the Graphics Division depicts a city street buried in snow, with residents using various methods to dig themselves out. A man stuck in a carriage says, “Help...
by Clements Library | Dec 23, 2013 | Graphics, Holidays
For this year’s festivities, we offer a selection of cat-themed holiday cards from the ephemera collections of the Clements Library. May you have a purr-fect holiday season!”Though a Kitten, quite able I ought to be, To carry a Christmas wish to...
by Clements Library | Nov 27, 2013 | Graphics, Holidays
For this week, we offer a selection of Thanksgiving postcards from the Graphics Division. All three of these postcards depict the iconic Thanksgiving turkey. Two contrast the turkey with our other national bird, the bald eagle. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin...
by Clements Library | Oct 31, 2013 | Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts, Today in history
“This is holy eve,” Richard Coulter wrote in his journal on October 31st, 1847. He was serving in the American Army that Halloween due to the Mexican War, and he noted the differences between how the day was observed in Mexico and back home in Greensburg,...
by Clements Library | Sep 5, 2013 | Graphics, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorIn honor of the upcoming celebration of World Beard Day on Saturday, September 7, Clements Library offers up this small sampling of the luxuriant beards found in our extensive Graphics Division. For example, amidst the...
by Clements Library | Jan 18, 2013 | Graphics, Today in history
January 18 and 22 mark the bicentennial of a pair of battles of the War of 1812 that deeply affected the American population of Ohio, Kentucky, and the Michigan Territory. The battles were fought in Frenchtown or River Raisin (today Monroe, Michigan), and they were a...
by Clements Library | Dec 29, 2012 | Graphics, Today in history
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsFor many years now, two oil paintings have looked down on the supervisor’s desk in the Clements Library reading room. They depict two phases of a battle at sea between a pair of warships, one British...
by Clements Library | Oct 25, 2012 | Graphics, Today in history
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsMany Americans remember the War of 1812 as a naval conflict in which, as Canadian historian C.P. Stacey put it, “the pride of the Mistress of the Seas was humbled by what an imprudent Englishman had...
