Category Archives: Exhibition

“Wanted Poster” No Longer Still At Large

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Rare Books and Special Collections

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 →

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Art Walk is on Thursday, December 6th from 5-8 pm – Come see this exhibit at Firestone!

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Rare Books and Special Collections

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” .

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Curator’s Tour of “First X, Then Y, Now Z” – December 2, 2012 @ 2 pm

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rare Books and Special Collections

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 →

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Cotsen Library is in the New York Times – Beatrix Potter Letters Exhibited at the Morgan Library

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Rare Books and Special Collections

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 →

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Cuneiform Collections in the Princeton University Library – Now on Display from Oct 2-8, 2012

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Rare Books and Special Collections

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 →

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