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 16, 2014 | Books, Graphics, Manuscripts
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorWe may have gotten several inches of snow in Ann Arbor Monday night, but at the Clements Library we are looking to our collections to get us in the spirit of spring. Flowers are not fully in bloom in Michigan, but they are...
by Jayne Ptolemy | Feb 27, 2014 | Graphics, Manuscripts
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room Supervisor Here at the Clements Library our collections continue to expand in new and exciting ways. With acquisitions and donations, established collections grow and new ones are formed. The manuscripts division acquires many...
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...
