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The Emancipation Proclamation Turns 150

FOR RELEASE:
Contact: Syl Kacapyr
Phone: (607) 255-7701
Email: vpk6@cornell.edu

Emancipation Proclamation Turns 150: What You Didn’t Learn in School

Cornell University Library will display its copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in late January

Completing the African-American Picture

FOR RELEASE: 
Contact: Gwen Glazer
Phone: (607) 254-8390
E-mail: gglazer[at]cornell.edu

In time for Black History Month, the Library has acquired thousands of historical photographs of African Americans.
 

Investigating the Dawn of the Photograph

FOR RELEASE: 
Contact: Gwen Glazer
Phone:  (607) 254-8390
E-mail:  gglazer@cornell.edu

Investigating the Dawn of the Photograph
Exhibition Celebrates the Arrival of Thousands of 19th-Century American Photographs

The Library puts some of the country’s rarest, earliest and most important photographs on display for the world to see