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Shakespeare in the Parlor…and everywhere

September 9th, 2011, by Jackie Penny

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As the Prints in the Parlor (PIP) Project begins its last leg of digitization and access to images generated, those of us involved with it find ourselves itching to pull together some of the results into conversation with one another. The reason for this is to show how these book illustrations, sometimes independent of the [...]


Additions to David Claypoole Johnston Inventory

May 5th, 2011, by Jackie Penny

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In August and December of 2010, the AAS received additional gifts to supplement the already delectable David Claypoole Johnston Family Collection.  (You can see a portrait of the artist and read a short bio as part of the online exhibition of Portraits at the American Antiquarian Society.) Of the material which came (in the form [...]


A Place of Reading: Three Centuries of Reading in America

July 27th, 2010, by Georgia Barnhill

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A Place of Reading.  That phrase defines Antiquarian Hall.  Reading is an everyday occupation for those of us in Antiquarian Hall whether staff or, yes, readers.  But it is also part of the title for the newest online exhibition posted on the AAS website.  How did this one come to pass? It started over twenty [...]