Noah Webster & His Dictionary - An Exhibit

An Exhibit Commemorating the 250th Anniversary

of Noah Webster’s Birth October 16, 1758

Amherst College Library,

Archives and Special Collections Department

September 4, 2008 through January 4, 2009

Interesting information and photographs are still posted online.

Bust of Noah Webster

by Chauncey Bradley Ives

American (1812-1894)

Bronze 26 ½ in; 67.31 cm

Gift of Theodore Bailey, Jr. in memory of

Richmond Mayo-Smith

(Class of 1909)

Loaned, courtesy of the Amherst College

Mead Art Museum

Link to more information about the Webster Exhibit

https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/exhibitions/webster

An American Dictionary of the English Language… By Noah Webster.

Revised and enlarged by Chauncey A. Goodrich. Springfield, Mass.:

Published by George and Charles Merriam, 1854.