by Clements Library | May 7, 2015 | Exhibits, Maps
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce its participation in a new exhibition, We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, opening May 2, 2015, at the Boston Public Library’s Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. Featuring...
by Clements Library | Dec 24, 2014 | Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts, Maps
Archives specialize in documenting change over time, but the holdings at the William L. Clements Library also reveal how some things remain stable through the years, including the excitement surrounding Christmas morning. On December 20th, 1840, Edward H....
by Clements Library | Dec 4, 2012 | Acquisitions, Maps
The Clements Library has just acquired a very rare and possibly unique plan of Detroit from the last years of the Michigan Territory. All that is known about Part of the City of Detroit, Michigan is that it was lithographed and published in New York at 22 Nassau...
by Clements Library | Oct 13, 2012 | Maps, Today in history
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsOctober 13 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights. This significant action of the War of 1812, fought some six miles downstream from Niagara Falls, was precipitated by an invasion of...
by Clements Library | Aug 28, 2012 | Library Work, Maps
Mary Pedley’s former Latin students have found new opportunities with cartography. Two of her former students, both classics majors, were seeking summer internships at U of M that would use their talents with ancient languages. Hannah Sorscher studies at the...
by Clements Library | Aug 16, 2012 | Maps, Today in history
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsThe events of August 16, 1812, brought an ignominious end to an American invasion of Canada and sent shock waves through the United States. On that day Brigadier General William Hull surrendered the fort...
by Clements Library | Jul 17, 2012 | Graphics, Maps, Today in history
Post by Brian L. Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsEarly in the morning of July 17, 1812, the residents of Mackinac Island awoke to pounding on their doors. A group of fellow citizens, led by local militia captain Michael Dousman, told everyone that war...
by Clements Library | Apr 24, 2012 | Exhibits, Maps
Melanie Langa, a researcher at the Clements Library and a student from Community High School in Ann Arbor, will curate an exhibit on the history of cartography beginning April 30th at the Stephen S. Clark Library in the Graduate Library. Entitled, An Imaginary Arctic:...
by Clements Library | Mar 15, 2012 | Acquisitions, Maps
Warin. Carte de la prise de la Grenade par Mr. Cmte. D’Estaing. le 5 Juillet 1779.The Map Division of the Clements Library has recently acquired a rare Revolutionary War-era manuscript map of Grenada in the West Indies. This battle plan may provide the only...
