Paginations

A–Z: Alphabetic Highlights from the Library’s Special Collections

January 25, 2025–May 18, 2025

Palm Letter Co. Illustrated sample book & price list of Palm's patent transfer letters: ornaments & trade designs for signs, wagons, cars, machines, etc. Cincinnati, Palm Letter Co., 1901

Paginations is a new series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library’s extensive holdings and presented in a newly designed area of the Manton Reading Room. The initial display, A–Z: Alphabetic Highlights from the Library’s Special Collections, celebrates the building blocks of type and text, the letters of the alphabet, and showcases examples from 1488–2024 in which the letters themselves take center stage.

This display, free and open to the public, is drawn from the Clark Art Institute library’s collections and curated by library staff.