Acquisition Highlights
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A new Tokaido Road acquisition for Marquand
Adventure was promised to those who traveled the three-hundred-mile-long Tōkaidō Road, which linked Japan’s modern capital, Edo (present-day Tokyo), with the ancient imperial capital at Kyoto from the seventeenth though early twentieth century. For more than three centuries, illustrated books and woodblock prints created and fostered a perception that the Tōkaidō was more than a route along the country’s eastern seacoast—it was a destination in and of itself.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 June 2021 - 8:33am in Acquisition Highlights -
PUL acquires collections documenting women's experiences in early America
Until recently, Princeton University Library’s Special Collections contained a number of family papers and collections documenting the American Revolution, early national period, and the abolitionist movement, yet lacked documentation of women’s experience during this era. Over the past year, PUL acquired several collections that fill this gap and detail a range of women’s issues, from abortion trials to land inheritance.
Posted on Tuesday, 16 March 2021 - 10:39am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Collections, Special Collections, Acquisition Highlights -
Inside Marquand Library: A century of collecting Harlem Renaissance art
Over the past hundred years, Marquand Library has sought to preserve the art historical record of the Black artists who lived and worked during this period that spanned roughly 1918 to 1935.
Posted on Monday, 14 December 2020 - 9:11am in Anti-Racism & Social Justice, Acquisition Highlights -
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) AND DRAWING
Posted on Friday, 3 January 2020 - 10:15am in Acquisition Highlights -
SCENIC VIEWS IN AND AROUND SHANGHAI
Posted on Friday, 29 March 2019 - 3:06pm in Acquisition Highlights -
Mummies and Museums: Egyptology in Britain in the Early Eighteenth Century
Posted on Monday, 18 March 2019 - 11:44am in Acquisition Highlights -
KAZIMIR MALEVICH AND REVOLUTIONARY BOOKS
Posted on Tuesday, 10 April 2018 - 10:52am in Acquisition Highlights -
1754: A Celebration of Medieval Mantles
Posted on Friday, 31 March 2017 - 1:39pm in Acquisition Highlights -
Jacopo Strada and the Study of Antiquity
Posted on Saturday, 7 February 2015 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Modern Art in Post World War II Japan
Posted on Wednesday, 24 December 2014 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
HOKUSAI’S MANGA
Posted on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Two Early French Publications of “Etruscan” Vases
Posted on Tuesday, 15 July 2014 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
The “German Vasari”?
Posted on Thursday, 5 December 2013 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
First Steps toward Modernism in Japanese Photography
Posted on Wednesday, 21 August 2013 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Mountains Upon Mountains
Posted on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Hokusai’s Banned Book
Posted on Friday, 30 November 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
The Grimani Breviary
Posted on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
A TOUR OF PARIS IN THE 1730s
Posted on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
ON THE ROAD…AGAIN
Posted on Wednesday, 9 May 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
A Very Artistic Anatomy Book
Posted on Thursday, 19 April 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Chronicling Disaster (Illegally) in Mid-19th Japan
Posted on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
An Early Study of Trajan’s Column
Posted on Friday, 2 March 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
On the Road
Posted on Wednesday, 11 January 2012 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
The ‘Bug Books’
Posted on Thursday, 15 December 2011 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Emmet Gowin's First Photobook
Posted on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Stuart Lacquerware Manual
Posted on Monday, 17 October 2011 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
'Out and About' in Edo Japan
Posted on Monday, 17 October 2011 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights -
Pirates of the East China Sea
Posted on Monday, 17 October 2011 - 12:00am in Acquisition Highlights
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