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.

Category

An Address on the Character and Talents of the Late Daniel Seymour, Delivered at the Anniversary of The Column

by Robert Kelly

1851

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Henry Codman Potter: Memorial Addresses at the Century Association

1908

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Proceedings at a Meeting of the Century Association Held in Memory of John F. Kensett

1872

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A Tribute to the Memory of Robert Kelly

by Edgar S. Van Winkle

1856

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In Memory of Henry Peters Gray

by Hon. Charles P. Daly

1878

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James Lorimer Graham, Jr. Memorial

1894

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