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April 26, 2006: Bowdoin College Receives the Jane Webster Pearce Collection
"The Jane Webster Pearce Collection, a bequest to Bowdoin College, was received in February 2006. Ms. Pearce, a resident of Green Island, Mt. Desert, Maine, and an avid bookbinder and book arts collector, acquired over 100 works between 1977 -- when she purchased her first piece, a designer binding by Gérard Charrière -- and her death in August 2005 at the age of 94. In bequeathing her books to Bowdoin College, Pearce intended the collection both to remain intact near the family home on Green Island and to be accessible to the broader public."
