Digital Library

The CAAF is pleased to make digitally available 38 historic Century Association publications and primary resources that constitute a veritable “reference shelf” of Centuriana for use by anyone researching the Association’s history.

This Digital Library includes the club’s earliest narrative histories, exhibition catalogs, ledgers documenting displays in the art galleries, and numerous book-length tributes to prominent Century members including William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Theodore Roosevelt, and Asher B. Durant.

These digital reproductions appear in book format to simulate the experience of reading and are fully text-searchable.

All materials are either in the public domain or copyrighted and reproduced by permission. If used in scholarship please credit:  Courtesy the Century Association Archives

Featured Resources

“Prehistoric Notes of the Century Club”

by John Durand

1882

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“Art History of the Century Association, 1847–1880”

by Louis Lang

1847-1880

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“Century Association Nobelists”

by Committee of the Archives of the Century Association, co-sponsored by CAAF

2015

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“Theodore Roosevelt: Memorial Addresses Delivered before the Century Association”

1919

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All Digitized Resources

Available below are historic Century Association publications and primary archival sources that are available for viewing and downloading in PDF format. Our flipbook format reproduces the reading experience.

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Ralph Ellison appearing at the Century in its sesquicentennial event, 1973
Ralph Waldo Ellison: Centurion

by Paul Devlin and James Panero (Editors)

2024

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The Origin and History of The Century

by John H. Gourlie

1856

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Reminiscences of the Century Association, 1847–1891

by Louis Lang

1847-1891

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Prehistoric Notes of the Century Club

by John Durand

1882

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Art History of the Century Association, 1847–1880

by Louis Lang

1847-1880

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The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Century and the Adoption of Its Constitution, January 13, 1897

by Century Association

1897

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