Category Archives for Exhibition
“Wanted Poster” No Longer Still At Large
The latest issue of Town Topics, Princeton’s weekly community newspaper, highlights a recently discovered “Wanted Poster” for John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln: “Lincoln Assassination ‘Wanted Poster’ Discovered at Princeton University Library” The broadside was discovered while researching … Continue reading
Art Walk is on Thursday, December 6th from 5–8 pm — Come see this exhibit at Firestone!
Come see this exhibit at Firestone in the Milberg Gallery - “The Election for Woodrow Wilson’s America”. And this exhibit in the Main Gallery - “First X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps” .
Curator’s Tour of “First X, Then Y, Now Z” — December 2, 2012 @ 2 pm
Please join LETC and John Delaney for a tour of the current exhibit in the main exhibition gallery at Firestone Library, “First X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps”. We will meet in the main exhibition gallery at Firestone. … Continue reading
Cotsen Library is in the New York Times — Beatrix Potter Letters Exhibited at the Morgan Library
By Edward Rothstein Published: November 1, 2012 The New York Times, Art & Design Section It was such a long time ago; and in another world,” Beatrix Potter writes, in a handwriting not all that different from the one she … Continue reading
Cuneiform Collections in the Princeton University Library — Now on Display from Oct 2–8, 2012
Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets with cuneiform writing, dating back over 4,000 years, will on display in the Firestone Library’s Eighteenth-Century Window from October 2 to 8. Cuneiform writing was a method of incising script into wet clay with a wedge-shaped … Continue reading
