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Slide depicting three books on rum, Coffee, and Taverns, with small inset headshots of authors, and a series title "Drinking the Revolution" along the bottom
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  • Juli McLoone
Drinking the Revolution: A Lecture Series
The William L. Clements Library; the University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center; and the U.S. at 250 program invite you to join a three-part series titled "Drinking the Revolution," exploring the role of beverages in Revolutionary America and the Early Republic. The first lecture will take place on Thursday, Jan. 22nd, 4-5:30pm in the Hatcher Gallery. Join us in person or via zoom.
Rectangular covers and pentagonal flap with bands of colorful floral vegetal designs surrounded by brown leather frame boarders
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  • Juli McLoone
Book Cloth: From Textile Bindings to Fashionable Fabric Samples
Join us this Thursday, January 15th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
colorful painted landscape scene with beach, boats and cargo at water's edge, boats, and rainbow over the sea
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  • Juli McLoone
A Few of Our Favorite Things
Join us this Thursday, December 18th, between 4-6p for our final Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
woman sitting on a man's back on a set with cameras and director's chair
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Ezra Stone: The Busiest Man in Hollywood
Join us this Thursday, November 20th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
undyed canvas straitjacket on a half body mannequin
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  • Katie Marie Jones
Rare BOO👻ks and other Spooky Selections from Special Collections
Join us this Thursday, October 16th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
floral vegetal designs in bold layered colors arranged in geometric borders
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  • Jamie Lausch Vander Broek
Spectacular Stencils: Gorgeous Examples from our Pochoir Collection
Join us this Thursday, September 18th, between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
Title page of John Baskerville's Virgil (1757)
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  • Martha O'Hara Conway
John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers
In this video, Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (U-M Conservation Librarian Emerita) takes us through her years-long research into the earliest Western-made wove paper, including papermaking experiments to replicate the paper that first appeared in John Baskerville’s Virgil, published in Birmingham, England, in 1757.
bucolic scene of a river with trees, shrubs and stately rows of houses at varying distances and caption "BATH WITH FERRY"
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  • Juli McLoone
Next week : Fashion, Food, and Flowers in Georgian England
Join us next Thursday, 20 March, between 4-6p for our next "Third Thursdays at the Library" event of the semester!
bucolic scene of cattle among trees by the edge of a stream
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  • Juli McLoone
Thundering Hooves in the Archives: Cows vs. Horses
Join us next Thursday, 20 February, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!
lines of handwritten latin script on parchment folio
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  • Pablo Alvarez
Next week | Discover Hidden Treasures: New Additions to our Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Join us next Thursday, 16 January between 4-6p for our first Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester!