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In 1947 volunteers formed a group called the Clements Library Associates (CLA) to raise money in support of acquisitions. Today all donors of financial gifts and historical materials are included in the CLA. Thank you so much for supporting the Clements through this site.
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Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838
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Price: $150.00
(Gift portion: $75.00 | Benefit: $75.00)Description
Author Brian Leigh Dunnigan. Wayne State University Press, 2001 (Hardcover, 247 pages).
Despite its inland location, Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of the eastern United States. Frontier Metropolis illustrates and describes all known images (as of 2001) of Detroit in the pre-photographic era to provide a nearly complete visual chronology made by people who knew the city.
Brian Leigh Dunnigan has arranged these maps, plans, and views to show the evolution of Detroit and its community life over its first 137 years. Chapter introductions review issues faced by Detroit residents during the years covered, while text accompanying the images places them in their historical context and adds the descriptive words of people from the past. No other book so vividly depicts Detroit's growth from struggling agricultural community and trading post to industrial giant.
Presented in a handsome, large-format design (18 x 13 inches) and illustrated in full color, Frontier Metropolis is a unique and captivating look at the city's rich and diverse heritage.
A Great Library Easily Begets Affection: Memories of the William L. Clements Library, 1923-2015
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Price: $100.00
(Gift portion: $50.00 | Benefit: $50.00)Description
Edited by Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Cheney Joshua Schopieray, Emiko Obata Hastings, J. Kevin Graffagnino. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, 2015 (Hardcover, 169 pages).
Every institution has its own personality, and many people are involved in developing it. The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan first opened its doors to scholars in 1923. In the years since, the efforts and talents of its founder, four directors, numerous staff, many supporters, and legions of readers have contributed to building both the traditions of the Clements and the wealth of its collections. This book presents fifty recollections and essays by individuals who helped shape the Library during its first ninety years. Their memories are affectionate, their experiences varied and often colorful, but it is clear that the Clements Library has played a major role in their lives, both professional and personal.
Publication of this volume marks the return of the Clements Library collection to its newly renovated and expanded Albert Kahn-designed home on South University Avenue.
Americana is a Creed: Notable Twentieth-Century Collectors, Dealers, and Curators
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Price: $100.00
(Gift portion: $50.00 | Benefit: $50.00)Description
Edited by J. Kevin Graffagnino, Terese M. Austin, Sara Quashnie. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Dec 15, 2019 (Hardcover, 405 pages).
Americana is a Creed includes biographical and autobiographical sketches and reminiscences of leading twentieth-century Americana specialists.
Chapters cover the following individuals: Edward Everett Ayer; Wymberley Jones De Renne; Wilberforce Eames; William L. Clements; Henry R. Wagner; Charles E. Goodspeed; George D. Smith; Bruce Cotten; Charles P. Everitt; Arthur Alfonso Schomburg; Harold C. Holmes; Edward Alexander Parsons; Wright Howes; Edward E. Eberstadt; Charles F. Heartman; E. Millicent Sowerby; Thomas W. Streeter; Margaret Bingham Stillwell; Ernest Wessen; Douglas C. McMurtrie; Randolph G. Adams; Michael J. Walsh; Dorothy Porter Wesley; David Magee; David A. Randall; Leona Rostenberg / Madeleine Stern; Charles Hamilton; Marcus A. McCorison; Charles L. Blockson; Michael Zinman; John H. Jenkins; and William S. Reese.
The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers
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Price: $100.00
(Gift portion: $50.00 | Benefit: $50.00)Description
Edited by Brian Leigh Dunnigan, J. Kevin Graffagnino, Jayne Ptolemy, Terese M. Austin. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library/ Oak Knoll Press, 2017 (Hardcover, 230 pages).
The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Here are autobiographical and contemporary biographical sketches of White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley, Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Illustrations from the remarkable collections of the William L. Clements Library and other leading institutional archives complement the texts to provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting, and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment, and inspiration.
The Captain from Nantucket and the Mutiny on the Bounty: A Recollection of Mayhew Folger, Mariner, who Discovered the Last Mutineer & His Family on Pitcairn's Island. Together with Letters & Documents Never Previously Published.
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Price: $50.00
(Gift portion: $25.00 | Benefit: $25.00)Description
Author Walter Hayes. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, 1996 (Hardcover, illustrated in color; 143 pages).
The fate of history’s most famous mutineers was revealed in 1808 when American ship captain Mayhew Folger stumbled across Pitcairn Island and the last surviving Bounty fugitive. The Clements Library holds Folger’s detailed manuscript narrative of the event, and it has been masterfully reproduced and used by Walter Hayes to tell the story of one of the great stories of the sea. Includes manuscript facsimiles and a selective bibliography. A limited edition of 1500 copies.
Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783
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Price: $50.00
(Gift portion: $25.00 | Benefit: $25.00)Description
Edited by John Shy. University of Michigan Press, March 15, 1989 (Hardcover, 128 pages).
Benjamin Gilbert had fought through much of the War for Independence, rising to officer’s rank by the time he began keeping a letter book in 1780. His copies of correspondence to relatives, friends, and fellow officers record a personal perspective on the final years of the war, from the victory at Yorktown to the conclusion of hostilities and the disbanding of the Continental Army. Gilbert’s letter book is preserved in the Clements Library and has been edited by distinguished historian John Shy.
One Hundred and One Treasures From the Collections of the William L. Clements Library: A Celebration of Seventy-five Years, 1923-1998
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Price: $40.00
(Gift portion: $20.00 | Benefit: $20.00)Description
Edited by John C. Dann. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, 1998 (Softcover, grayscale printing, 180 pages).
Excerpt from the Editor’s Preface:
“How does one select 101 treasures, when the Library contains thousands of items of similar rarity, and importance, and interest?
The entire curatorial staff took part in the selection process, and the result was a congenial compromise between ‘greatest treasures’ and a display of the breadth and diversity of the collections. We hope, in an enjoyable fashion, to remind scholars and the general public alike that one of the world’s truly great historical libraries is at the University of Michigan, and then to give them some idea of the scope and type of materials it contains.”
—John C. Dann, Library Director
One Hundred Selections from the Duane Norman Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century
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Price: $20.00
(Gift portion: $10.00 | Benefit: $10.00)Description
Author Cheney J. Schopieray. University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, 2018 (Hardcover, 57 pages).
Dr. Duane Norman Diedrich provided generous gifts-in-kind, funding, and counsel to amass 1,100 individual letters, documents, and other manuscripts, plus nearly 110 bound volumes and archival collections. The entries in this catalog will give readers a cursory view of the prominent public individuals represented in the Diedrich Collection, from John Winthrop to Susan B. Anthony to U.S. President Harry Truman. This pamphlet was produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the Diedrich Collection at the William L. Clements Library, May 25—October 26, 2018.
Arranged in three sections:
- Individual Manuscripts
- Archival Collections
- Douglas MacArthur, World War I and World War II.
Curator’s Notes include a key of abbreviations for document types.