“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 items for the upcoming exhibition “A Republic in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox.” The exhibition, opening in the Main Gallery of the Firestone Library on Friday, Feb. 22, features nearly 100 of the library’s finest holdings of American historical manuscripts, autograph letters, rare books, maps, photographs and other materials from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and Scheide Library. Several items from Princeton’s collections will be on display for the first time.
Treasures of American history featured in Princeton exhibition — Opening Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
From a first-hand account of Colonial life in Jamestown to a wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth following President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a Princeton University Libraryexhibition opening Friday, Feb. 22, will trace the American experience from 1607 to 1865. Several items from Princeton’s collections will be on display for the first time.
“A Republic in the Wilderness: Treasures of American History From Jamestown to Appomattox” will feature nearly 100 of the library’s finest holdings of American historical manuscripts, autograph letters, rare books, maps, photographs and other materials from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and Scheide Library. Read more.
Times of Trenton Highlights 18th Century Handel Acquisition
A detail shot of a manuscript for George Frideric Handel’s three-act opera Berenice at Firestone Library in Princeton on Friday, January 25, 2013. Andrew Miller/For The Times of Trenton
Princeton University Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of an eighteenth-century scribal score of George Frideric Handel’s three-act opera Berenice, copied by a contemporary Handel copyist (“S2”) from the composer’s autograph manuscript. The acquisition is highlighted on the front page of the Times of Trenton in an article by Mark Spy: Princeton University Library Scores Rare Copy of Handel Opera.
The manuscript and other related works will be on display in the Rare Books and Special Collections Main Gallery in Firestone Library during the 2013 American Handel Society Festival and Conference on February 21–24, 2013 and will be on display until March 4, 2013. For more about the conference and festival, see: American Handel Society Festival 2013.
For more about the acquisition, see: Library Acquires an 18th Century Handel Score.
Curator’s Tour of “First X, Then Y, Now Z” — January 12, 2013 @ 3 pm
Please join John Delaney, Curator of Maps, for a tour of the current exhibit in the main exhibition gallery at Firestone Library, “First X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps”. The tour will meet in the main exhibition gallery at Firestone.
“First X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps” introduces viewers to the early history of thematic mapping–the topical layering (Z) of geographic space (X-Y). Exhibited are early, if not the earliest, thematic maps in various disciplines, such as meteorology, geology, hydrography, natural history, medicine, and sociology/economics. Several groundbreaking exemplars from the fields of ethnography, linguistics, and communication and transportation are included. A few, more conceptual, maps about literary subjects, love/marriage, and utopia extend this thematic cartographic exploration.
Finally, to answer this basic question–Who is the typical exhibition viewer?–an on-going thematic map is being created from viewer responses regarding gender, Princeton or other affiliation (student, alumnus, faculty/staff, local resident, other visitor), and the state or foreign country where the person was born and/or grew up. Everyone has a chance to put themselves literally on the map.
RBSC Firestone December Holiday Hours
Dulles Reading Room
CLOSED
Monday and Tuesday
December 24 and 25
OPEN
Wednesday to Friday
December 26 to 28
CLOSED
Monday and Tuesday
December 31 to January 1
Regular Reading Room Hours
Monday to Friday, 9–4:45 pm
Galleries (Main, Milberg, Cotsen)
CLOSED
Monday and Tuesday
December 24 and 25
OPEN
Wednesday to Friday
December 26 to 28
CLOSED
Monday and Tuesday
December 31 to January 1
Regular Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday, 9–5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 12–5:00 pm
