by Clements Library | Apr 6, 2022 | Acquisitions, Collections, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to share 23 new finding aids for manuscripts collections. Many represent new acquisitions, such as our growing collection of materials related to Cuba in the 19th century. Others include two journals kept aboard privateer...
by Clements Library | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured, Manuscripts
One of the Clements Library’s objectives for its blog is to create additional ways for scholars to take notice of collections relevant to their research. We describe acquisitions, archives, resources, highlights, and out-of-the-ordinary items to draw attention...
by Clements Library | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Fellowships, Manuscripts
Guest post by Patrick T. Barker, Clements Library 2019 Price Fellow. An earlier version of this post was published on April 7, 2020; it has been retitled and expanded with additional material. During the early 1770s fugitives from slavery fled by sea from the...
by Jakob Dopp | Nov 3, 2021 | Books, Featured, Graphics, Manuscripts
The Clements Library is thrilled to have recently acquired a mid-19th-century calling card for a Saginaw Band Ojibwa man named Joseph Cabay which will be a welcome addition to the Native American History Collection. Born around 1837 in Saganing, Michigan, to...
by Cheney Schopieray | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce the availability of a digitized version of the William Howe Orderly Book, 1776-1778. This volume of orders for the British Army under General Howe, covering around two years of the American Revolution, is a...
by Clements Library | Oct 13, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library’s new batch of finding aids pertains to a variety of 19th century topics. The collections document variolation and childbirth, primary to higher education, Mississippi plantation life, teenage girls’ experiences, textile...
by Emiko Hastings | Aug 3, 2021 | Featured, Library Work, Manuscripts, Volunteers
As part of the Clements Library’s digitization program, we have started to make selected archival collections available online. To make these materials fully available for research, we welcome volunteers to help us create searchable full-text transcriptions for...
by Clements Library | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room. (The Clements Library is currently open by appointment only for U-M faculty, students and staff and Clements research...
by Cheney Schopieray | Jun 15, 2021 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library has recently made available online three archival collections pertinent to the trade of enslaved persons, slavery in Jamaica, and antislavery activities in Michigan. They include the Thomas Leyland Company Account Books, 1789-1793;...
