C.J. Grant was a British satirist with Radical sympathies, whose political engravings saw success in the 1830s. Typically taking a hostile stance against the policies (and often the persons) of more conservative Whig and Tory politicians, Grant’s prints championed working class suffrage and political reform. In a rare wood-engraved… Continue reading »
Peter Simple, author of The Simple Jography; or, How to Know the Earth and Why It Spins, was a character created by Oliver Herford, a British-born American humorist whose popularity peaked around the turn of the 20th century, and of whose works the Chapin Library has a substantial collection. Continue reading »
Join librarians on May 4, at 4PM for a discussion of Alison Head's essay Reading in the Age of Distrust, the second essay in the Project Information Literacy Provocation Series. Continue reading »
In April of 1789, President-elect George Washington made his way from his home in Virginia to the young country’s then-capital, New York City, for his inauguration on the last day of the month. He made frequent stops along the way to greet his numerous supporters. The most represented of… Continue reading »
The Chapin Library invites you to attend a virtual event with Foy Scalf on April 27 from 3:00-4:30pm EDT. Register to receive the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/7rdy8sBF2t8rh6Zq8 In 1922 Alfred Clark Chapin purchased a small album filled with scraps of ancient Egyptian papyrus… Continue reading »
For Health Days (April 21-22 & May 7) we're inviting you to use the libraries to support your health and well-being. We're encouraging you to PLAY, EXPLORE and CREATE. Did you know that we have board games, lawn games and zine making kits? Continue reading »
Eighty-six years to the day after the storied battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, a similarly symbolical scuffle took place in the streets of Baltimore. A week before, on April 12th, the Civil War had begun with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which saw… Continue reading »
The firm Currier & Ives was among the most popular and influential, not to mention prolific, purveyors of images in 19th-century America. Nathaniel Currier, its founder, learned the then-young trade of lithography in the early years of the 1830s, when he was a teenage apprentice for a Boston shop… Continue reading »
How do you deal with stress and improve your overall health and well-being? Perhaps you go for a jog, listen to a favorite podcast, spend time in nature, or get a good night’s sleep. Schow’s new display focuses on stress relief, health, and wellness and highlights library resources which might… Continue reading »
In this humble etching in the Chapin Library’s art collection, by the Maine-born artist Charles B. Foster, a young boy — the titular Eugéne, one presumes — sits beside a river, fishing. Hastily rendered, the print bears a background that is hardly more than a few scratched lines in… Continue reading »
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