{"id":1100,"date":"2014-09-17T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2014-09-18T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:51:16","slug":"the-first-library-the-1794-collection-now-on-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2014\/09\/17\/the-first-library-the-1794-collection-now-on-view\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST LIBRARY: THE 1794 COLLECTION now on view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/1794Collection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1102\" alt=\"1794Collection\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/1794Collection-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/1794Collection-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/1794Collection.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/1794Collection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1103\" alt=\"DSC_0652\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/DSC_0652-180x300.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/DSC_0652-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/DSC_0652-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2014\/09\/DSC_0652.jpg 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In support of the Book Unbound initiative, Professor Edan Dekel and College Archives co-curated an exhibit highlighting the first library collection of Williams, now known as the 1794 Collection. Purchased by the first Williams President, Ebenezer Fitch,\u00a0the catalogue lists a diverse assortment of over 360\u00a0volumes, divided into such categories as: arts and sciences,\u00a0voyages and travels, divinity and ecclesiastical history,\u00a0history, languages, and poetry.\u00a0The exhibit is now on view in the Archives\/ Chapin instruction gallery on the 4th floor of Sawyer Library. Archives\/ Chapin galleries are open Monday- Friday, 10am-5pm. On September 20th, the galleries are open from 1pm-6pm.<\/p>\n<p>-JGDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In support of the Book Unbound initiative, Professor Edan Dekel and College Archives co-curated an exhibit highlighting the first library collection of Williams, now known as the 1794 Collection. Purchased by the first Williams President, Ebenezer Fitch,\u00a0the catalogue lists a diverse assortment of over 360\u00a0volumes, divided into such categories as: arts and sciences,\u00a0voyages and travels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12246,12248,12254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibitions","category-williams-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}