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 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 January 31, 2009.

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

In 1939 Walter Wanger Productions decided to use Dartmouth's famous Winter Carnival as the backdrop for a college romance story. Wanger '15 hired recent Dartmouth graduate Budd Schulberg '36 to write the script. To assist the young writer, only three years out of college, they hired the more experienced F. Scott Fitzgerald. Malcolm Cowley described what transpired as Fitzgerald's "biggest, saddest and most desperate spree."

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

Celebrate the 250th birthday of William Blake, poet, painter, printer, and visionary, with an exhibition of his literary illustrations. On view are a proof-set of his Illustrations of the Book of Job, plates from a stunning full-color facsimile of the Paradise Lost watercolors, the masterpiece engraving Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, a selection of books demonstrating Blake's career as a commercial illustrator, and other items from the Library's extensive collection of Blake materials.

In addition, four engravings in the Hood Museum of Art's collections from Blake's series illustrating Dante's Inferno (not published until after his death) are on display at the Hood Museum through January 13.

"It is certain that the pictures deserve to be engraved by the hands of angels..."

-- William Blake, letter to William Hayley, 22 June 1804

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