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, LEM EN T SLI BRA RYASSOCIATESSPRING1999"MYFAVORITETHINGS" TREASURESOFGRAPHICARTIN THECLEMENTSLIBRARY ecognizi ngtheimportanceofgraphicmaterialsashisto ricalevidence, over thepast twodecad esthe Cle mentsLibrary has actively collec tedthe pictorialrecordofAmerica's a ratherrandomaccumu-lationofill ustratedbooksande ighteenth-ce nturye ngrave dviews,RevolutionaryWarc aric atures, a few engravedBritishportrait s. and a sca tter -iogofhistoricall yimportantpictu res, the library eventuallyacquired a sizea b lecollectionofprints .Butitwasnotuntilbuildingren ova tions werecom ple ted in 1980that itwaspossible to provide thespecia lizedcaretheydes rary' s origin alreadingroom was convertedto thePrintDivisionand Iagreed to be itsfirst curator, to organi zeadisparategatheri ng of graphicmateri al, attendto its conse rva-tionneeds, and begina be ased uc tiveassig nme nt,f rustrating only inthe lackoftime I co uld devoteto it, given my oth er Libraryrespo lon ge r an aftertho ught,prints weregiven newpriorityinacq uisitio ns.
VOL. 1, NO. 11 THE CLEMENTS LI BRARY ASSOCIATES SPRING 1999 "MY FAVORITE THINGS" TREASURES OF GRAPHIC ART IN THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY ecognizing the importance of graphic materials as historical evidence, over the
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