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Category Archives: Exhibits
Now On Display: “Mask-arade!”
Special Collections graduate assistants Kyle Ripley and Kristina Rosenthal have recently researched and displayed a collection of Mexican dancing masks. These masks predate the founding of the Americas and illuminate the culture and traditions of Mexico’s earliest people. So, to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, events, exhibit, history, Native Americans
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“The Greatest Mother in the World”
As part of the ongoing exhibit of posters in Special Collections for Veterans Day, the students who created the exhibits also created entries for this blog. We will be posting these over the rest of the month of November. 1992.004.5.65-66 … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, posters, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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“Sure! We’ll Finish the Job. Victory Liberty Loan.”
As part of the ongoing exhibit of posters in Special Collections for Veterans Day, the students who created the exhibits also created entries for this blog. We will be posting these over the rest of the month of November. 1992.004.5.76 … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, posters, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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“Women! Help America’s Sons Win the War. Buy U.S. Government Bonds of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917”
As part of the ongoing exhibit of posters in Special Collections for Veterans Day, the students who created the exhibits also created entries for this blog. We will be posting these over the rest of the month of November. “Women! … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, posters, World War I, World War One, WWI
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When posters went to war
The students in Dr. Kirsten Olds’ course Art History 4803 “Cultural Responses to War in the 20th Century” this semester have been working with Marc Carlson and the staff at Special Collections to mount an exhibition in the reading room … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibit, Great War, posters, propogranda, War, World War I, World War One, WWI
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Now on Display: Sideshow! Curiosities & Oddities
Step right up to see our newest exhibit: Sideshow! Curiosities & Oddities. We’ve gathered items from across the collections that are guaranteed* to send shivers up your spine. Included are relics from the assassination of President Lincoln, interior views of … Continue reading
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Tagged curiosities, displays, exhibit, exhibition, oddities, sideshow
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Fight On and Fly: The First Air War, 1914-1918 (Finale)
On the night of September 2nd, 1916, the Germans mounted the largest airship attack yet on Britain with thirteen airships crossing the North Sea heading for the Midlands and London. One of the ships was spotted by the searchlights and … Continue reading
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Tagged Great War, history, photographs, World War I
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Fight On and Fly: The First Air War, 1914-1918 (Part two)
The WWI pilot was passionate about flying, wanting nothing more than to be in the air. But, life for these pilots could be terrifying, brutal, and short. Many lost their lives (or their nerve) before finishing flight school. Others lost … Continue reading
Fight On and Fly: The First Air War, 1914-1918 (Part one)
With the summer of 1914 came the start of the First World War. At the time, the aeroplane was seen simply as a tool for reconnaissance and observation— some military generals were dubious of their use for even that purpose—so, … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, collections, Great War, history, World War I, World War One, WWI
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