Exhibition: "Liberty & the American Revolution: Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus ’59"

11/07/2009 - 9:00a.m. to 11/07/2009 - 5:00p.m.

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Main Gallery, Firestone Library, Princeton University

1 Washington Road

Princeton, 08544

Phone: (609) 258-3155

Contact name: Linda Oliveira

loliveir@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/exhibitions/main.html

Price: Free

This exhibition celebrates 50 years of collecting by Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959, as well as the 50th reunion of his class. It features 157 important books, pamphlets, and prints exemplary of the collection’s major themes: the origins of the American Revolution, the Revolution itself, the early years of the Republic, the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world, as well as the concomitant effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States. Presented as gifts at Reunions, those selected are from his more than 2,500 books.

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