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Marquand Library and the Blue Mountain Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Sandra Ludig Brooke*
Affiliation:
Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, McCormick Hall #161, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA
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Abstract

Princeton University’s Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology is one of the oldest and most extensive art libraries in America. Founder and namesake Allan Marquand was both an art historian and the creator of a ‘logical machine’ that prefigured modern computers. This shared science and humanities heritage is echoed in the Blue Mountain Project, a new digital humanities initiative to which Marquand Library is a major contributor. This article begins with a brief description of the library’s origins and the development of its facilities and collections. It then reports on Blue Mountain, a digital library of the avant-garde that chronicles the emergence of modernity in the literary, visual and performing arts from 1848 to 1923.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2013

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