New and Improved Finding Aids: Spring 2020
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections are now described online. These materials may be requested for use in the reading room when we are able to resume library services. Before planning your research visit, please contact us to...
Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers Transcriptions
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce that the digitized Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers are now fully text searchable. Each digitized page is accompanied by a complete transcription, which will transform the way researchers...
Whaling Voyage Logs Recently Acquired
Guest post by Ellen Gleason, Clements Library Student Intern As a student pursuing the Graduate Certification in Archival Administration at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, I completed a 135-hour practicum applying my classroom learning to work in the field....
Enslavement, Refuge, and Black Life Beyond the Caribbean’s “Merchantable” Space
Guest post by Patrick T. Barker, Clements Library 2019 Price Fellow Across the late 1760s and early 1770s ‒ in a series of what, at first, may have seemed unconnected acts ‒ enslaved women, men, and children fled southward in number from the then-British Caribbean...