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Clean out your closets!

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Recently the Graphic Arts staff at the American Antiquarian Society posted its latest illustrated inventory, a complete listing of political and social engraved satires from the Charles Peirce collection (yes, that last name is spelled correctly! Peirce, not Pierce!).  You can have a look by following this link http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Peirce/ Like many collections here at the … Continue reading Clean out your closets!

Mark Your Calendars for Adopt-a-Book on Tues., March 30th

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Some of the American Antiquarian Society’s collection materials have been on our shelves for almost 200 years, but other items are “new” antiquities. New, that is, in the way that hand-me-downs from your older sister are new. They are new to us even if they have existed for hundreds of years elsewhere. The AAS curators … Continue reading Mark Your Calendars for Adopt-a-Book on Tues., March 30th