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The Asia Library is the 5th largest East Asian language collection in North America. [more]
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English Pocket Globe
The popularity of miniaturized globes rose in the later half of the 18th century. Many of them, including the one held in the Map Library, are derived from the same design. As knowledge of the World's geography increased, subsequent versions included additional detail.
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The Ghost Army
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Mary Aston Rice Livermore
A true nineteenth-century reformer, Mary Livermore was active in temperance, suffrage, and abolitionist movements. Born Mary Ashton Rice in Boston on December 19, 1820, she attended the Hancock School and the Charlestown Female Seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After her graduation in 1836, she stayed on as a teacher for two years. It was not until she worked as a governess for a wealthy family on a plantation in Virginia that Livermore began to form liberal ideas.
Photograph from the Labadie Photographs collection.
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