True Treasures: Princeton Alumni Weekly Highlights “A Republic in the Wilderness”

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Rare Books and Special Collections

 

WILLIAM STRACHEY (1572–1621), “The First Decade Con­teyn­ing the His­to­rie of Trav­ell into Vir­ginia Bri­ta­nia,” 1612. Not to be repro­duced with­out per­mis­sion of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library.

WILLIAM STRACHEY (1572–1621), “The First Decade Con­teyn­ing the His­to­rie of Trav­ell into Vir­ginia Bri­ta­nia,” 1612.

The March 20th issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly highlights the current Main Gallery exhibition, “A Republic in the Wilderness: Trea­sures of Amer­i­can His­tory from Jamestown to Appo­mat­tox.”

“True Treasures: Two and A Half Centuries of American History Are On Display in Firestone”  by W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

The exhi­bi­tion is free and open to the pub­lic, and is on view in the Main Gallery of Fire­stone Library from Feb­ru­ary 22 through August 4, 2013, week­days from 9 am to 4:45 pm, and week­ends from noon to 5 pm.

An accom­pa­ny­ing online exhi­bi­tion, fea­tur­ing selected items on dis­play, is avail­able at http://rbsc.princeton.edu/republic.

 

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