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The King's English: The 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
September 2 - October 31, 2011
2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible. Rauner Special Collections Library owns one leaf from the original 1611 edition and many other distinctive examples of Bibles published both before and after 1611.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: KingsEnglish.jpg
The exhibit is curated by Anne Peale '11 and Eric Esau and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries from September 2 to October 31, 2011.
Cultivating Secret Gardens: Frances Hodgson Burnett and Children's Fiction
July 6 - August 31, 2011
This exhibition is mounted in conjunction with "One Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: A Centenary Conference" cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, and the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: SecretGarden.jpg
The exhibit is curated by Laura Braunstein and Jay Satterfield and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries from July 6 to August 31, 2011.
Bringing out the Leaves: Manuscripts and their Meaning
May 2 - July 1, 2011
Dartmouth has a rich and diverse collection of medieval manuscripts that are used to support teaching and learning at the College This exhibit represents the exploration of eight undergraduate students who share a fascination with the Middle Ages. The brought their own interests to the materials, sometimes selecting the same items for quite different purposes. The ensuing negotiation illustrated well how meaning depends greatly on point of view and context. We invite you to carry on the exploration by seeking you own connections among these intriguing materials!
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You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: BringingOutTheLeaves.jpg (2.1 MB)
The exhibit will be on display in Rauner Library's Class of 1965 Galleries through July 1, 2011.
The Original FSP: George Ticknor Brings Spain to New Englan
March 2 - April 30, 2011
A Dartmouth graduate of the class of 1807, George Ticknor ushered in a new era of Hispanism in the United States through his travels in Spain and his subsequent scholarship. Ticknor embodied the intellectual spirit of 19th-century New England through his varied academic pursuits. He guided the American transition from mere enjoyment of things Hispanic, or hispanofilia, into hispanismo, a productive analysis of and intercultural engagement with things Hispanic, which would foster profound academic inquiry for years to come. Pursuing similar aims to those of Ticknor, many Dartmouth students participate in Foreign Study Programs (FSPs). By curating this exhibit, the students of Spanish 53 expose the roots of the scholarly quest to immerse ourselves in the language and culture of other countries.
Spanish 53 (Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Politics of Language) are: Alison Herdeg '11, Amber Gode '09 G'11, Anna Wearn '12, Carmen Rodriguez '11, Charles Buker '11, Elena Martinez de Andino '11, Elizabeth Palmer '11, Emmanuel Tecuatl '13, Hunter Cox '11, James Kim '11, Julia Szafman '13, Virginia Roach '12 and Professor Noelia Cirnigliaro.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: OriginalFSP.jpg (2.8 MB)
The exhibit will be on display in Rauner Library's Class of 1965 Galleries through April 30, 2011.
Inspired By: Student/Artist/Book/Work
February 1 - February 28, 2011
For the past two years, the College has offered a new class, “The Book Arts Studio Seminar,” taught by Alex Halasz, Amy Borezo, and Lynne Avadenka. In the class, students learn the art of the book by working with type, polymer plates, and printing presses to create their own broadsheets and books. To learn about how artists have used the book as a medium and to study how different books function, they make frequent use of the collections in Rauner Library and in Sherman Library. This exhibit showcases the work of four students from this Fall’s course: Eve Ahearn, Gitae Lee, Cristina Pellegrini, and Lily Ringler. Each student’s final project is paired with a book from Rauner Library’s collection that served as inspiration.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: InspiredBy.jpg (2 MB)
The exhibit will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries until February 28, 2011.
Adventure of the Archives: Detecting Sherlock Holmes in Rauner
November 1 - December 22, 2010
Sherlock Holmes may be the world's most well-known fictional detective. How did readers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century first experience him? The rare books and archives held in Rauner Special Collections Library offer today's readers a chance to see Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation as his contemporary readers did. The myth of the great detective unfolds through serialization and over thirty years of publishing history.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Adventure_of_the_Archives.jpg (3.3 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Laura Braunstein and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries November 1 through December 22, 2010.
Cool at Rauner: A Year of Blogging Special Collections
September 2 - October 31, 2010
On September 11, 2009, we posted our first entry on the "Cool at Rauner" blog. "A Beat Classic at 50" delved into the complicated printing history of the two "first" editions of William Burrough's Naked Lunch. Since then, we have posted 100 entries highlighting new acquisitions, fresh discoveries and old favorites.
Usually, online exhibits follow physical exhibitions, but in this case we thought we would reverse the trend and create a physical exhibit based on some of our favorite blog entries.
Visit the Rauner blog at raunerlibrary.blogspot.com for lots more, and remember, everything you see on the blog is available for closer inspection in the Rauner Rooke Reading Room downstairs - even the penguin.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Cool at Rauner (2.6 MB)
The exhibit was curated by the Rauner blog and assembled by Joshua Shaw and Jay Satterfield. It will be on display from September 1 through October 31, 2010 in the Class of 1965 Galleries.
Dogs at Dartmouth: A Light-Hearted Look at Dartmouth's Canine Population at Play and at Work
July 1 - August 31, 2010
For the dog days of summer, a special exhibit, "Dogs at Dartmouth: a Light-Hearted Look at Dartmouth's Canine Population at Play and at Work," is now on display in the Class of l965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library. Student dogs, administrative and faculty dogs, and others are featured.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Dogs (1.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Mary Donin and Eric Esau and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through August 31.
From the Destruction of Troy: Medieval Chronicles
May 10 - June 30, 2010
Based on oral tradition, documented historical events, biblical stories, and Greek and Roman myth, medieval chronicles became an important source for claims to power and fueled literary imagination. Harkening back to Virgil’s Aeneid, which set up Aeneas as the father of all Romans, they told of the mythical exploits of Aeneas’s progeny who fanned out over Europe after the fall of Troy. Rulers used chronicles to trace their ancestry to Aeneas and assert their kingdoms as the “New Rome,” and later writers like Spenser, Malory and Shakespeare retold the stories for new audiences.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Chronicles (2.1 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Jay Satterfield and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through June 30.
Surveying the Road Not Taken
March 1 - May 1, 2010
Created and curated by students in College Course 2, this exhibit explores the themes of choice and abandonment as evoked by Robert Frost's classic 1921 poem, "The Road Not Taken." Displaying artifacts from Dartmouth's Alen King Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments and documents from the Rauner Special Collections Library, the show features two institutional experiments at Dartmouth that ultimately were abandoned. The Chandler Scientific School (1852-93) featured Dartmouth faculty teaching courses in accounting, the construction trades and applied sciences. The Dartmouth Eye Institute (1920-47) tried to combine advanced research in physiological optics with a clinic specializing in esoteric vision problems. In each case, the College after protracted struggles decided that its mission lay elsewhere and took another road.
The exhibition was curated by students in College Course 2, and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through May 1, 2010.
Animal Magnetism: The Enduring Allure of the Bestiary
January 6 - February 28, 2010
A runaway best seller in the Middle Ages, bestiaries catalogued and described animals (including the well-known siren, unicorn, and leontophone) and turned them into metaphors of religious doctrine and belief. Over the centuries, the idea of the bestiary has proven itself to be as riveting as the gaze of a cat. The emblem book, 17th century natural histories, and children's literature all owe a debt to this enduring literary form.
See for yourself why a good animal story and great art always fascinates readers.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: AnimalMagnetism (1.9 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Kirk, Associate Librarian for Information Resources, and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through February 28, 2010.
Beasts and Monsters: Discovering Antiquity in New Worlds
November 4, 2009 - January 5, 2010
Educated from classical texts such as Pliny’s Natural History, early explorers and settlers found in the New World many of the creatures and peoples described in antiquity as residing on the edges of the world. From unicorns to hydras to fantastic peoples, expectations were met as Europeans entered new lands.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Beasts and Monsters (1.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Pauline M. Gonzales, graduate student in Comparative Literature, and Jay Satterfield, Special Collections Librarian, and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through January 5, 2010.
An Enduring Passion: The DOC at 100
September 1 - October 31, 2009
Selected highlights from the Outing Club's history, documenting the Club's founding in December 1909 as a winter sports organization, its ongoing enjoyment of the outdoors, and its stewardship of the natural world. Through Winter Carnival, First Year trips, affiliated clubs, and the miles of trails and numerous cabins it maintains, the DOC probably has touched the lives of more Dartmouth undergraduates than any other College organization.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Doc at 100 (1.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Barbara Krieger and Peter Carini and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through October 31, 2009.
American Insight: Charting Terra Incognita
July 10 - August 31, 2009
In 1933, Dartmouth College was invited to become one of seventeen college libraries to participate in a philanthropic plan initiated by a wealthy bibliophile named Tracy McGregor. Dartmouth's Library, under the direction of Nathanial Goodrich, was in the process of growing into a true research library. One major aspect lacking in its collections was a strong rare book collection. This exhibit illustrates how Dartmouth's participation in the McGregor Plan laid the groundwork for the Library's rare book collections and their integration into the curriculum.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: American Insight (1 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Josh Lascell and Peter Carini and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through August 31.
Words of Welcome, Words of Farewell
June 6 - July 10, 2009
Historically, Dartmouth presidents have addressed the College community at the outset of their administrations, the opening of the academic year, and in their valedictories to the graduating class. Selections from these presidential speeches show their continuing, and often common, vision of Dartmouth and the role its alumni will play in the world beyond the Hanover Plain.
The exhibition was created by Barbara Kriger and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through July 10.
Research At Rauner: From Inspiration to Publication
April 20 - June 5, 2009
This exhibition presents five recent books, each surrounded by their source materials, where authors found inspiration in the rich holdings of Rauner Special Collections Library. The final printed books mask the work that went into each project. These scholars worked with Rauner staff to sift through thousands of documents to uncover untold histories. The key books and documents give only a glimpse of the long hours of research supporting each book. We are pleased to present some of the fruits of the scholarship conducted in Rauner Library every day.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Inspiration (2 MB)
The exhibition was created by Sarah Hartwell and Jay Satterfield and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through June 5.
Memorial Poems: Civil War Literature in Context
February 3 - March 31, 2009
Although Walt Whitman famously claimed that “the real war will never get into the books,” the American Civil War did in fact call forth a vast range of literary responses, in genres as diverse as poetry, popular song, novels and other prose genres. How does this literature depict the war, and how does it grapple with Whitman’s claim that there is something unrepresentable about the war’s carnage? In Fall, 2008, we explored these questions in an upper-level seminar, English 71: The Civil War in Literature (Professor Colleen Boggs), which fulfilled the “culminating experience” requirement in the English major. Students explored primary texts in the classroom and beyond: each student developed a research project that contextualized the literature we had studied by drawing on primary materials from special collections and the college archives. The work of three students -- Virginia Deaton, Nicole LaBombard, and David Schmidt -- is displayed here; it represents their original research.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: MemorialPoems (2.4 MB)
The exhibition was created and installed by Virginia Deaton, Nicole LaBombard, and David Schmidt and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library through March 31, 2009.
Born in the USA: Stories of American Scientific Instruments & Their Makers
December 4, 2008 - January 31, 2009
An intriguing collage of materials from the College Archives and the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments provides insights into three eras of student life and teaching science at Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern: 100 Years of Attitude
October 15 - November 30, 2008
The Jack-O-Lantern, founded as the “Comic Monthly” in 1909, is Dartmouth’s humor magazine and one of its oldest publications. Despite times of turmoil and inactivity, and periodic threats of College de-recognition for printing reprehensibly offensive content, the “Jacko” appears to be destined for more than one century of existence. This exhibit showcases original material from the publication’s history and offers insight into the constantly-shifting comic sensibilities of 100 classes of Dartmouth students.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Jacko (2.0 MB)
The exhibition was curated by the current Jack-O-Lantern staff and Peter Carini, and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries October 15 through November 30, 2008.
Frontier Fantasies: Imagining the American West in the Dime Novel
August 15 - October 14, 2008
Enormously popular and critically maligned, the dime novel was one of the first forms of mass culture in the United States. The Western adventure story dominated the dime novel industry in the 1860s and 1870s. Tales of the frontier, wherever it was – upstate New York, the Great Plains, or the California gold country – helped to define a mythical American identity. Come see these “Books for the Million!” that justified Western expansion with mail-order myths of violent transgressions, passionate romances, and thrilling rescues.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Dime Novels (2.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Laura Braunstein and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries August 15 through October 14, 2008.
The Poet Present: In Robert Frost’s Hand and Voice
June 7 - August 15, 2008
Robert Frost is as relevant today as he was fifty years ago. A spate of recent scholarship is bringing to light unpublished writings and lectures from Rauner Library’s vast holdings of Frost materials. Scrupulous transcriptions of Frost’s notebooks and one of his Dartmouth lectures have been published in the past two years, and there is an ambitious ongoing project to publish from his voluminous correspondence files. In conjunction with this year’s VERMONT READS selection of Natalie Bober’s A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost, Rauner Library is pleased to present an exhibition of the manuscripts and recordings that have made this research possible and keep the poet present in our lives.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Frost (2 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Jay Satterfield and will be on display though August 15.
Slavic Connections: Selections from the Holdings of Rauner Special Collections Library
April 14 - May 31, 2008
Mounted in conjunction with the spring meeting of the East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections which will be held here at Dartmouth May 1-2, this exhibition explores the rich Slavic collections as represented in the Erskine Caldwell Collection, the Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration, and the Rare Book collection. Included are imperial bindings, translations of popular American novels, futuristic Soviet architecture, and books on polar exploration from the other side of the Northern Hemisphere.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: SlavicConnections (2 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Eric Esau and John DeSantis and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library through May 31, 2008.
Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Galvanometer: Finding Clues in Scientific Instruments
March 4 - April 11, 2008
The exhibition was created and installed by Professor Kremer's Physics 7 Seminar class and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library through April 11.
Fitzgerald's Lost Weekend: Winter Carnival 1939
February 1 - March 3, 2008
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: FitzgeraldLostWeekend.jpg (1.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Jay Satterfield and Peter Carini and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library through March 3.
Engraved by the Hands of Angels: The Literary Illustrations of William Blake
November 27, 2007 - January 31, 2008
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: HandsOfAngels.jpg (2.4 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Laura Braunstein and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through January 31, 2008.
Atlantic Exchange: Books, Ideas, and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
October 1 - November 23, 2007
By the eighteenth-century, print had become an important medium for linking disparate parts of empires, distributing revolutionary ideas, and fostering intellectual debate. This exhibition, held in conjunction with the meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, examines some of the threads of the transatlantic conversation carried out in print.
Like any good eighteenth-century book of poetry, we offer materials written "on several occasions" to try to better understand the complex social and literary world of the time.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: AtlanticDestinies.jpg (2.9 MB)
The exhibition will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through November 23.
Inspired Editions: John Bunyan and His Illustrators
August 3 - September 30, 2007
John Bunyan''s The Pilgrim''s Progress, first published in 1678, remained enormously popular for hundreds of years. Artists have responded to Bunyan''s allegorical tale in a variety of ways, some focusing on the action of the story or the psychological state of Bunyan''s protagonist, while others have completely reshaped the novel for different audiences. Recently book artist Angela Lorenz has created Life, Life, Eternal Life: Uncle Wiggily Meets the Pilgrim''s Progress, a linear board game based on Bunyan''s classic.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: InspiredEditions_Bunyan.jpg (2.7 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Patti Houghton and Jay Satterfield and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Special Collections Library through the end of September.
Navigating the Northwest Passage: Just Missing The Ice
May 25, 2007 - July 31, 2007
The 19th century's quest for an Arctic Northwest Passage set the stage for men challenging the icy North Seas. Today, this epic still gives us insights into relationships of society to nature in a world that we are rapidly changing as the global temperatures are rising. Ice barriers are retreating and the Northwest Passage will be open to commercial shipping and resource exploitation. Drawing on the rich Stefansson Collection on Polar Exploration, this exhibition maps the quest for the "Arctic Grail."
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Northwest.jpg (2.5 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Tiffany Chang '09 and Nicole Stuckenberger and will be on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries in Rauner Library from May 25 to July 31.
200 Years of the Handel Society at Dartmouth
To Improve and Promote True and Genuine Music: April 1 - May 24, 2007
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Handel.jpg (2.1 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Barbara Krieger and will be on display through May 24th.
Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice's Adventures in Rauner
Come Celebrate Winter Carnival in Rauner: February 9 - March 31, 2007
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been a perennial seller for over 140 years. The absurdly whimsical tale has spawned new adaptations and interpretations for nearly every generation. This exhibition celebrates this year's Winter Carnival theme by examining some of the many wonderful editions and adaptations of Lewis Carroll's classic children's story collected in Rauner Library.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: AliceInRauner.jpg (2.3 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Patti Houghton, Barbara Krieger and Jay Satterfield and will be on display through the end of March.
In the Name of Service: Margaret A. Otto, 1937-2006
December 15, 2006 - January 31, 2007
Margaret A. Otto's legacy surrounds us. As the first woman to lead the Dartmouth College Library, she oversaw an extraordinary period of expansion, building, and technological innovation. Her leadership ensured the continued viability of the Library as an intellectual and social center of campus.
Ms. Otto came to Dartmouth from MIT in 1979 as the 16th Librarian of the College. Within a few years of arriving, she ushered Dartmouth into a new era of digital access with the creation of one of the nation's first online library catalogs. For her, digital access was simply a tool - not an end in itself - for enhancing the strong service ethic she was determined to establish in the Library. Service demanded new spaces that could cater to the changing needs of the community. Her tenure saw a number of major library building projects including: the construction of both the Matthews-Fuller Biomedical Library at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Berry Library on the campus in Hanover; the renovation of Webster Hall for the Rauner Special Collections Library; and the expansion of the Paddock Music Library. She also understood the historic importance of the library's collections, creating a preservation department to ensure their long-term conservation, and overseeing the acquisition of the two millionth volume to the collection.
Margaret Otto will be missed by all who knew her, but for all of us, her life's work is here each day as a part of what we know as Dartmouth.
Potrait of Margaret Otto by Ronald Sherr, 2006.
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College. Courtesy of the Hood Museum of Art.
This Book is Condemned: A Look at the Notorious Career of Thomas James Wise
October 27 - November 30, 2006
Thomas James Wise (1859-1937) was a distinguished English bookman. A well respected figure in the field of literary studies, Wise compiled bibliographies of the works of many important nineteenth-century English writers. There was, however, a far less respectable aspect to his career - he produced forgeries of the first editions of those very writers. Come to Rauner to take a look at some of his forgeries, selected from a collection given by George Chapman Singer, Class of 1950.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: CondemnedBook.jpg (1.6 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Patti Houghton and will be on display through the end of November.
Documenting Invention: Patents and the Protection of the Useful Arts
August 1 - September 30, 2006
An exhibition of U.S. patents, patent law, and the protection of invention, from Samuel Morey's 1793 patent signed by George Washington to Charles Dudley's patented design for the Dartmouth senior cane.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: DocumentingInvention.jpg (1.6 MB)
The exhibition was curated by Eric Esau and Barbara Krieger and will be on display through the end of September.
Reinventing Dartmouth: In John Kemeny's Words
June 1 - July 31, 2006
The exhibition features audio clips from John Kemeny's oral history interview with Alex Fanelli '42, archival images and other materials illustrating a period that redefined the College's curriculum, student body and self-image.
Curated by Mary Donin & Peter Carini
Portrait of John G. Kemeny by Everett Raymond Kinstler, courtesy Hood Museum of Art.
Uncle Tomitudes
April 3 - May 31, 2006
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin shook up American culture in the 1850s. It sold more copies than any other novel of the 19th century and spurred a multitude of "Uncle Tomitudes," or spinoffs, such as theatrical adaptations, popular songs, and even "anti-Tom" novels that depicted slavery as a benign institution. This exhibition uses Dartmouth history as a context for understanding the deep intellectual and emotional tensions slavery created in America that led to Uncle Tom's Cabin's unprecedented success.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: Tomitudes_8x10.jpg (1 MB)
Curated by Jay Satterfield
Romance in Rauner
February 7 - March 31, 2006
Looking for a LOVELY break? Stop into Rauner Special Collections Library to see the new exhibition, “Romance at Rauner: An Exhibition of Love,” and find passion, young love, courtship and love gone wrong among the manuscripts, rare books and archives.
You may download a small, 8x10 version of the poster: RomanceInRauner_8x10.jpg (2.5 MB)
Curated by Jay Satterfield, Barbara Krieger, & Patti Houghton
The 09's and Their Toys: The Changing Face of Science at Dartmouth
November 29, 2005 to January 31, 2006
An intriguing collage of materials from the College Archives and the Allen King Collection of Scientific Instruments provides insights into three eras of student life and teaching science at Dartmouth.
Curated by Richard Kremer's "Material Culture of Science" class
Beauty in Use: 50 Years of the Janus Press
November 1, 2005-November 28, 2005
Since 1955, Claire Van Vliet has been creating book forms that accentuate and give physical shape to the texts they contain. Come view an exhibition of some of the elaborate constructions, simple typographic gems, and beautifully illustrated texts produced by the Janus Press.
Curated by Patti Houghton and Jay Satterfield
"Green Grass Everywhere": Walt Whitman at Dartmouth
September 10, 2005-October 31, 2005
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leaves of Grass, this exhibition highlights the Dartmouth College Library's rich holdings of Walt Whitman. Witness the astounding growth of Leaves during Whitman's life and twentieth-century interpretations of what is arguably the most important book of poetry in American literature. Also on display is a selection of material related to Whitman's visit to campus for the 1872 Commencement ceremonies.
Curated by Laura Braunstein and Jay Satterfield
Dartmouth Mysteries
August 1, 2005-September 9, 2005
Curated by Barbara Krieger and Patti Houghton
A Masque of "Ours": The Rise of Pageantry in America
June 10, 2005-July 29, 2005
"A Masque of 'Ours': The Gods and the Golden Bowl" was performed on June 22, 1905 at the estate of Augustus Saint-Gaudens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Cornish Colony. It marked the beginning of pageantry in America; a movement that reached its apex a decade later with the production of tremendous civic pageants featuring thousands of actors and attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators. Drawing on the MacKaye Family Papers and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Papers, this exhibition examines pageantry's growth and its evolution as a social and political force.
Curated by Jay Satterfield
The Legacy of Errol Gaston Hill
May 10, 2005-June 9, 2005
Professor Errol Hill, a world-renowned scholar of Caribbean theater, was a member of the Dartmouth Theater Department from 1968 to 1989. A native of the Caribbean, Hill was the College's first tenured African-American professor, and an award-winning playwright and author. On campus he was famous for directing both classical and Caribbean plays. The exhibit features both his literary and theatrical accomplishments.
Curated by Bonnie Wallin
Dartmouth Icons
March 7, 2005-May 9, 2005
Curated by Rich Kremer's Physics 7 class
Finding "Neverland" in Special Collections: Peter Pan on Stage and Page
February 10, 2005-March 3, 2005
In the spirit of this years Winter Carnival, Rauner Special Collections Library is pleased to announce a new exhibition in the Class of 1965 Gallery:
"Finding 'Neverland' in Special Collections: Peter Pan on Stage and Page"
The exhibition includes photographs, scripts, and programs from a century of Peter Pan stage productions, as well as the screenplay for the 1924 Paramount Pictures movie version. In addition to theatrical material, the exhibit features illustrated editions of Peter Pan with art work by Edmund Blampied, F. D. Bedford, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Arthur Rackham, and Trina Schart Hyman.
Curated by Patti Houghton and Bonnie Wallin
A Tribute to Trina: Trina Schart Hyman, 1939-2004
December 1, 2004-January 31, 2005
A selection of works illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman is now on display in the Class of 1965 Gallery in the Rauner Special Collections Library. The works were selected from Rauner's collection of illustrated books.
A resident of Lyme, N.H. from 1966 until her death on 19 November 2004, Hyman was a well known figure in the Upper Valley. The illustrator of more than 150 books, she received the Caldecott Medal in 1985, the award given to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
The exhibition was curated by Patti Houghton
Getting Out the Vote: Political Broadsides and Campaign Literature in Special Collections
October 30, 2004-November 31, 2004
Stop by and see pamphlets, broadsides, campaign buttons, and other election year ballyhoo from 1828 to the recent past. Among the items on display are a broadside imploring voters to "Beware of Fraudulent Ballots!" and the sheet music for the suffragette classic, "She's Good Enough to be Your Baby's Mother, and She's Good Enough to Vote With You."
The exhibition was curated by Barbara Krieger
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