Forbes Library Special Collections Collection Development Policy Forbes Library is the public library for Northampton, Massachusetts. Its Mission Statement applies to all collections and services. Special Collections are also…We collaborate with community partners such as Historic Northampton, David Ruggles Center and other local history institutions to avoid duplication and competition for collections. Library staff solicit gifts, consult with dealers, online vendors, and examine publishers’ catalogs and book review publications for the purchase or acquisition of the following types of material: Materials that record the history, development, and current life of the C…
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Northampton’s Forbes Library turns page on first 125 years
February 25, 2019 — Springfield Republican/MassLive, February 24, 2019; reproduced by permission https://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2019/02/northamptons_forbes_library_turns_page_on_first_125_years.html By Cori Urban Special to The Republican The Forbes Library in Northampton is turning the page on its first 125 years…the means of learning, if they are disposed to learn.” William Brocklesby designed the three-story stone building, which is on the National Register of Historic Buildings. It was completed in 1893 and then took a year to open while the newly-hired director, Charles Ammi Cutter, went to Europe to assemble a collection in time for its opening in October 1894. He had created the Cutter Expansive Classification System when he was librarian at the Bos…
Summer Hours
Three siblings’ memories of the past and aspirations for the future collide when confronted with their shared inheritance of an exceptional 19th century art collection and the family’s country house…which it has been kept, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), a successful New York designer, Frédéric (Charles Berling), an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jérémie (Jérémie Renier), a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories and backgrounds, and unique visions of the future. The film is a complex spin on the traditional pastoral country house film and poses questions about the power of objects and…
A ‘Calvin Coolidge’ Living Room Set
March 18, 2009 — Per the caption, it seems the designer of this 1928 set felt if it were named after President Coolidge the chances of winning the (unnamed) competition would increase. Wrong. The style is closer to mongrel Borax than L’Art Moderne and seventh place was at best, well, kind. With 20-20 hindsight it’s easy to see why the first three years of American Modernism (1926-1929) was an abysmal failure both commercially and aesthetically. Image from ‘A Hist…
Frank Ashford
September 20, 2011 — In 1927, President and Mrs. Coolidge had a busy summer in Rapid City, South Dakota, a part of the country unfamiliar to both of these Vermont natives. It was here…line news release that startled the nation by saying, “I do not choose to run for president in 1928.” Lesser known today is that Frank Clifford Ashford painted two portraits of President Coolidge and two portraits of Grace Coolidge that summer at the State Lodge in Custer State Park where they resided. Two of the artworks hang at the CCPLM, one of the president in the Native-American headdress and the other, a profile of the first lady in a red d…
General Pershing and President Coolidge
October 4, 2012 — Two powerful men of the early twentieth century met and interacted. General of the Armies John Joseph ‘Black Jack’ Pershing, (1860-1948) and President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Pershing, the most illustrious…as his Vice President. Coolidge and Pershing had a meeting in Boston in February 1920 while Coolidge was governor. Between 1921 and 1924, Pershing was Chief of Staff of the United States Army. . On November 1, 1921, Pershing and Vice President Coolidge were in Kansas City, Missouri at the groundbreaking ceremony for a large World War I monument, the Liberty Memorial. On that day, more than 100,000 people assembled to hear the supreme Allied comman…
The life and death of Old Main
The life and death of Old Main: Images preserve the legacy of a now-demolished Northampton State Hospital building by Sarah Dunlap [Originally published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette on: Thursday, December 13,…ed windows. In this image, Old Main seems to tower above its neighboring structures, all of which have the same Gothic architectural features. In February, after Majeski’s exhibit concludes, the Forbes Library will digitize his images and place them in its Special Collection of historic photographs. Majeski originally took the photographs of the abandoned hospital for his own collection and did not consider the possibility of exhibiting the images…
The Angel of Hadley
The Painting The Angel of Hadley, or The Perils of Our Forefathers, by Frederic A. Chapman The “Angel of Hadley,” also known as “The Perils of our Forefathers,” hangs in…Goffe and Edward Whalley, both with prices upon their heads for being the ruling judges in the decision to execute King Charles I. Allegedly they were hidden in a secret room in Russell’s home, where they both eventually died. Goffe emerged only that once to warn the town of the imminent attack of the Indians. The Truth Apparently none of this story is based in fact. There is no record of an Indian attack on Hadley in 1675. The myth seems to have…
Foodie Lit
April 23, 2014 — Eating Abroad This reading list was compiled by Forbes Library librarians as part of the 2011 Novel Destinations Summer Reading program. Novel Destination is sponsored by Friends of Forbes Library, the Massachusetts Library System,…ering at Lillian’s Restaurant for a weekly cooking class, a young mother struggles with the growing demands of her family, an Italian kitchen designer works to adapt to life in America, and a widower mourns the loss of his wife to breast cancer. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when…
A&M Periodicals (Shelving Location)
The A&M Periodicals section is on the 2nd floor, at the far end of the gallery, overlooking the parking lot. Periodicals on art, music, crafts, design, and fashion are shelved…The A&M Periodicals section is on the 2nd floor, at the far end of the gallery, overlooking the parking lot. Periodicals on art, music, crafts, design, and fashion are shelved here. They are arranged alphabetically by title….
Charles Ammi Cutter
Library systematizer extraordinaire by Pip Stromgren [ Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Saturday, June 26, 2004 ] Hanging over the reference librarians’ desk in Northampton’s Forbes Library is a…“get away from libraries.” Before his departure, however, he wrote to the trustees of the newly formed Forbes Library in Northampton, offering to buy books, photographs, music and works of art for its budding collection. The trustees accepted his offer and allotted him $50,000 for this purpose. When he returned a year later, Cutter was offered the post of librarian at the Forbes. In his first annual report, Cutter recalled his first summer at the…
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