by Sam Huck | May 27, 2024 | Publications
Cheney J. Schopieray Curator of Manuscripts The William L. Clements Library acquired a group of King Family Papers in 1996. They focus heavily on the Kings’ mercantile activities at Macau and Canton, China, family property, and William H. King’s institutionalization....
by Sam Huck | May 27, 2024 | Publications
Emiko Hastings Curator of Books “Snake oil,” the notorious quack medical cure-all, has become a common metaphor for frauds and swindles of all kinds. It evokes an image of a late-19th-century traveling medicine show, complete with a fast-talking salesman peddling a...
by Sam Huck | May 27, 2024 | Publications
Paul J. Erickson Randolph G. Adams Director William L. Clements Library “It is good to be shifty in a new country” was the advice offered by Captain Simon Suggs. Created by the Southwestern humor writer Johnson Jones Hooper in the 1840s, the fictional Captain Suggs...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
Developments As I’ve seen the stories brought forth by my colleagues for this installment of The Quarto as well as the materials being organized for display in our upcoming exhibit, I’ve been struck by the intersection between arts, resistance, and archives. It’s not...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
Teaching Geography The Clements Library holds a number of student maps, drawn or traced by young scholars in the 19th century as part of their school curriculum. The remarkable detail and skill demonstrated by some of these students raise the question of how exactly...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
When I first started as an intern at the Clements Library, I was tasked with organizing the papers of Marilla Waite Freeman (1871–1961), part of the Dwight- Willard-Alden-Allen-Freeman Family Papers. The papers relating to Freeman, a public librarian, and her family...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
High on a rocky plateau overlooking a rich valley toward mountains beyond stood a group of Native Americans with their horses, attentively observing the scene spread out before them. Their dress identified them as indigenous: leggings and tunics, feathered...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
Marion Shipley’s classroom note evokes the delicious feeling of putting one over on the adults who regulate the daily life of children. When I think about “Resistance” my mind automatically capitalizes the word, and I conjure visions of protests in the street, paint...
by Tiffani Ihrke | Mar 1, 2024 | Publications
Several Native American religious movements originating over the course of the 19th century were formed in direct response to relentless oppression by the United States Government and land-hungry American settlers. Many of these movements evoked a return to an...
