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- Graphics
- Archive
- Revolutionary War
- Manuscripts
- Civil War
- Acquisition
- William L. Clements
- Avenir Foundation Room
- Fellowships
- Thomas Gage
- Books
- Henry Clinton
- Quarto
- Maps
- For All Ages
- Albert Kahn
- Ephemera
- Conservation
- David V. Tinder
William L. Clements
University of Michigan alum and Regent, manuscript and rare book collector, and founder of our library. Mr. Clements generously donated both his personal collection and the funds to build the library to house them, which opened in 1923.
Albert Kahn
Noted Detroit architect who designed the Clements Library in the Italian Renaissance style, based on Vignola’s casino for the Villa Farnese, ca.1587, in Caprarola, Italy. At the end of a brilliant career, with buildings to his credit as diverse as the Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant and the General Motors Building in Detroit, Kahn said that he wanted most to be remembered for the Clements Library
Avenir Foundation Room
In 2013 our grand hall was named “The Avenir Foundation Room” in recognition of the Foundation’s generous donation toward the renovation and expansion of the library building. As part of the project, The Avenir Foundation Room became our primary reading room upon re-opening in April 2016.
Archive
The Clements Library is a closed-stacks Americana archive, meaning that researchers must make appointments before their visit. Items cannot be checked out of our library, and instead must be accessed digitally or in our Avenir Foundation Reading Room. Due to the rarity and fragility of many materials, there are certain guidelines researchers must follow when handling items.
Acquisition
The Clements Library purchases and receives donations of historic materials relating to the early Americas. New acquisitions are processed by student workers and library staff.
Books
One of four collecting divisions at the Clements Library. The Book Division of the William L. Clements Library cares for a collection of printed Americana containing approximately 100,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and periodicals.
Manuscripts
One of four collecting divisions at the Clements Library. With over 2,700 collections, the manuscript holdings at the Clements Library offer researchers the opportunity to explore the American past in great detail. The types of handwritten materials at the Clements Library reflect the many ways people recorded their experiences.
Maps
One of four collecting divisions at the Clements Library. The Map Division catalog includes about 30,000 maps and plans relating to the Americas. Approximately 2,500 of these are manuscript, and many of them came to the Library with large Revolutionary War and Early National period manuscript collections.
Graphics
One of four collecting divisions at the Clements Library. The Graphics Division of the Clements Library includes visual materials of many genres and formats. The bulk of the graphics holdings are in prints and photographs, supplemented with original artwork, printed ephemera, sheet music, and other visual materials.
Conservation
The practice of preserving materials. Many collection items at the Clements are so fragile they cannot be cataloged by staff or used by researchers until treatments are performed by our in-house Conservator, Julie Fremuth.
One of the many duties of a Conservationist is displayed above, where a student intern is applying wheat paste to a manuscript in preparation for lining it with Japanese support paper.
Revolutionary War
The Clements Library’s American Revolution manuscript holdings draw researchers from around the world, particularly those studying the conflict from the British perspective. Researchers will find tens of thousands of letters, documents, diaries, orderly books, account books, and other handwritten materials pertinent to British North America and the West Indies from the end of the Seven Years’ War through the 1782-1783 Treaty of Paris negotiations.
Civil War
The Clements Library’s holdings on the American Civil War are broad in scope and span all four divisions. Our holdings emphasize the experiences and observations of individual soldiers and civilians during the conflict, along with popular media representations of events, and post-war reflections.
Portrait of Thomas Gage, Commander of the British Army in America from 1754- 1763.
Thomas Gage
The Thomas Gage Papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarters papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. The Gage Papers are one of our most frequently accessed collections, making them the perfect choice for a major digitization project funded by the NEH.
Henry Clinton
The Henry Clinton papers contain the correspondence, records, and maps of Henry Clinton, who served under Thomas Gage and William Howe between 1775 and 1778, and was commander-in-chief of British forces in North America from 1778 to 1782. One of the most frequently accessed collections at the Clements Library.
David V. Tinder
The David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography consists of over 100,000 images in a variety of formats including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs, real photo postcards, stereographs, and mounted and unmounted paper prints. Gift of David and Cynthia Walters, Meaghan and Joel Cole, and Jennifer and Zachary SantAmour.
Ephemera
Items such as tickets, advertisements, trade cards, etc. which were not necessarily intended to be kept. The Clements Library holds over 17,000 ephemeral items across three collections: general ephemera, travel ephemera, and games and toys!
Michigan football players from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, Real Photo Postcard Series.
For All Ages
Past exhibit ohighlighting historic American toys and board games, curated by Graphics Cataloger Jakob Dopp and Curator of Graphics & Maps Sierra Laddusaw.
Fellowships
The Library offers funded research fellowships for a wide array of projects undertaken by graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, creative artists, and undergraduates. All who wish to visit the library’s world-class collections of early Americana are encouraged to apply. The deadline for the 2026-2027 cycle is January 15th, 2026.