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125
Years of Achievement: The History of Cornell's College of Architecture,
Art, and Planning
125 years ago Adrew Dickson White challenged the Board of Trustees to establish
a new program to provide formal academic training in architecture. This
exhibition honors the faculty and students who have fulfilled Andrew Dickson
White's aspirations.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Aap-exhibit/ |
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Abuzz
About Bees: 400 Years of Bees & Beekeeping
This exhibit highlights Mann Library's Phillips Beekeeping Collection, the
largest and most valuable library on bees and beekeeping in the world. Its
books and serials range from the earliest printed book on bees in English
to a recent 900-page taxonomy of bees of the world.
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/beekeeping |
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Artifex
– Leonard Baskin & the Gehenna Press
Widely recognized as a major figure in 20th century American art,
Leonard Baskin embodied the essence of the artifex (Latin for "creator")
in blending the roles of master craftsman, artisan, and artist. The exhibition
features books and fine prints from Baskin’s private press.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/baskin/ |
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Beautiful
Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection Exhibit
This online exhibition depicts the history of ornithological illustration,
and includes images of Metal Engravings & Etchings, Wood Engravings
& Woodcuts, Hand-Colored Lithographs and Chromolithographs.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/frames/exhibit.htm |
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The
Book in Southeast Asia
Through the continued efforts of professors and curators such as Charles
William Wason, John M. Echols, and Giok Po Oey, Cornell has become a national
resource for Southeast Asian publications. This exhibit details the holdings
of the Echols Southeast Asia collections.
http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/ |
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Bridging Worlds
Cornell’s Kroch Asia Library celebrated the 2007 visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Cornell with an exhibition drawn from its extensive Buddhist words and works. A sampling of the material is available online and focuses on texts, Buddha biographies, monasteries, the caitya, practitioners and the mandala.
http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/bridgingworlds/ |
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Cornell
University Library History: Cornell’s University Librarians
A history of Cornell University Library's 10
University Librarians from 1868-present.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/libraryhistory/librarians/ |
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Cornell
University Library's Seven-Millionth Volume
On March 5, Cornell University Library celebrated its 7 millionth acquisition:
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, a gift by two Cornell alumni
donors. This site relays the history of the acquisition in addition to featuring
text and images from the volume.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/7milVol/ |
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Death
of the Father
This project took a multimedia approach to examining the closure of political
authority following the death of such patriarchal figures as Stalin, Hitler,
and Mussolini. An international team of anthropologists worked with the
Cornell University Library to develop a web site that integrated text, digital
images, audio and film clips from totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/dof/ |
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Early
Black Women at Cornell: Part and Apart, 1890s-1930s
Since the arrival of Jane Eleanor Datcher, the
first known black woman to matriculate at Cornell, black women have lived,
studied, and cultivated friendships at Cornell while pursuing a premier
education. Themes of the exhibit include the experiences of black women
as students at Cornell, as well as the stories of racism and anti-racism
and the complex road toward inclusion.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/earlyblackwomen/introduction/index.html |
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French
Revolution Collections: Web Exhibits and Guides
Cornell University's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections holds three
major collections of French Revolutionary papers, most notably those of
the Marquis de Lafayette, as well as the papers of Benoiste La Forte, and
Naval Minister Comte de Maurepas
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/frenchrev/ |
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From
Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
In celebration of the New York State College of Human Ecology's Centennial,
this exhibition emphasizes how home economics at Cornell University served
as a critical bridge from domesticity in the 19th century to modernity in
the 20th century and attempts to answer the question: What was home economics?
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/default.html |
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From
Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection
From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection
celebrates the Library's spectacular collection of letters, manuscripts
and books documenting the life and work of James Joyce.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/ |
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From
Manuscript to Print: The Evolution of the Medieval Book
This exhibition traces the history of the medieval book from the 9th to
the 15th centuries. Drawn from the holdings of Cornell Library’s Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections, the exhibition presents a rich variety
of medieval manuscripts and printed books.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/medievalbook/default.htm |
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Get
Out the Vote! Campaigning for the U. S. Presidency
This exhibition investigates the process of campaigning and electioneering
through partisan artifacts, symbols and ballots. Ten featured elections-all
well represented in the Cornell Library's collections-are examined alongside
recurrent campaign themes.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/vote/index.html |
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The
Gettysburg Address
This site details the history of Cornell University Library’s copy
of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Cornell’s copy is one
of five known copies in Lincoln's hand. It is the only copy accompanied
by a letter from Lincoln transmitting the manuscript and by the original
envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/ |
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Gravely
Gorgeous: Gargoyles, Grotesques and the 19th-Century Imagination
Originally mounted at the Johnson Museum of Art as a collaboration with
the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, this exhibit tells the
history of the gargoyle and the grotesque with accompanying photos, prints
and original sculpture.
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely.html |
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Harvest
of Freedom: The History of Kitchen Gardens in America
Drawing from the special collections of Mann Library and the Ethel Zoe Bailey
Horticultural Catalogue Collection of the Bailey Hortorium, this exhibit
highlights the changing yet enduring history of kitchen gardening in America.
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/kitchengardens |
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“I
will be heard!”: Abolitionism in America
This exhibition documents our country’s
intellectual, moral, and political struggle to achieve freedom for all
Americans. Featuring manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other materials
from Cornell’s pre-eminent anti-slavery and Civil War collections,
the exhibition explores the complex history of slavery, resistance, and
abolition from the 1700s through 1865.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/ |
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Invention
and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a Nineteenth Century Life Exhibit
This exhibition is primarily based on the letters, diaries, photographs,
documents, and publications in the Ezra Cornell Papers, in the Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University Library. Additional
items are from the Johnson Art Museum and the College of Engineering (Cornell
University).
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ezra-exhibit/entrance.html
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L.
A. Fuertes: The Harriman Alaska Expedition Exhibit
This site highlights a journal that Louis Agassiz Fuertes kept during the
Harriman Alaska Expedition. The expedition, intended initially as a family
vacation, gathered an illustrious group of scientists, writers and artists,
and combined scientific research with leisure activities.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Alaska/ |
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Legacy
of Leadership: Cornell's Presidents
During a history that spans nearly 140 years, Cornell has had only
11 presidents. Find out how they began their presidencies and how their
contributions have helped to shape a Beloved and Revolutionary
Cornell. All items are from the holdings of the Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/ |
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Liberty
Hyde Bailey: A Man for All Seasons
This exhibition celebrates the Centennial of the New York State College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the accomplishments of its first Dean,
the incomparable Liberty Hyde Bailey, botanist, horticulturalist, plant
breeder, traveler and plant explorer, outstanding teacher, astute and successful
administrator, lobbyist, rural sociologist, prolific writer and superb editor,
environmentalist, philosopher, photographer, poet, and visionary.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/bailey/ |
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Mail
Order Gardens
With their luscious arrays of gardening dreams, seed catalogs have stoked
gardner's passions for generations. Seen from a historical perspective,
they reflect cultural and social values, alterations in language, demographics,
and changing technologies, both in agriculture and printing.
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/mailordergardens |
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Majesty
Sublime: Andrew Wilson's Epic 1804 Walk from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls
In October 1804 a former political refugee from Scotland, destined to become
America's first scientific ornithologist, began a heroic journey. Alexander
Wilson and two companions left Philadelphia and began walking to Niagara
Falls, 600 miles away. Following this adventure, Wilson wrote a book-length
poem, The Foresters, which described an untouched American wilderness "stamped
with the traits of majesty sublime."
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/majestysublime |
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Mozart
and the Keyboard Culture of His Time
After achieving pan-European fame as a child prodigy, Mozart became perhaps
the greatest keyboard player and composer of his time. This exhibit presents
a collection of documents and objects that illuminate how his music was
performed and understood in Mozart's time and in the two hundred fifty years
since.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/mozart/ |
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Not
By Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage
American food culture has evolved through a rich interplay of foreign adaptation
and home-grown invention. This exhibit explores the influences and inventions
that have shaped American food habits over the past two hundred years.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/ |
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Out
of the Teeming Sea: Blaschka Glass Invertebrate Models
Before Jacques Cousteau and the aqualung, before Kodachrome and underwater
photography--there were the Blaschkas, father and son glassworkers who
produced some of the most extraordinary glass objects that have ever been
made. Their work has been described as "an artistic marvel in the
field of science and a scientific marvel in the field of art."
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/blaschka/
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Paper,
Leather, Clay and Stone: The Written Word Materialized Exhibit
The visual and tactile aspects of the written word are explored in this
exhibition which reflects a common commitment to teaching interconnections
in history, and its written, visual, and material culture to college and
high school audiences.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Paper-exhibit/ |
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The
Passionate Collector: Willard Fiske and his Libraries
This exhibition celebrates Willard Fiske’s generosity and intellectual
achievements through the display of medieval manuscripts, rare fifteenth-century
printed books, his original correspondence, and nineteenth-century photographs
from the collections he established.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collector/ |
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Pasttimes
and Paradigms: Games We Play
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections investigates the evolution
of games since 1800. The exhibition includes a wide variety of antique and
contemporary games, as well as rare books on rules, strategies, and recreation.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/games/ |
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Peddlers,
Pirates & Prostitutes : Subaltern Histories of Southeast Asia 1800-1900
This exhibit grew out of Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo's history course on subaltern
histories of Southeast Asia. Subaltern history studies the "voiceless,"
or people who are traditionally outside the structures of power in society.
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/SoutheastAsia/
outreach/resources/PPP/ppp.html |
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Tianjin
- 600 Years of Urban Development & Planning
This exhibit aims to show how Tianjin developed as a colonial,
urban "collage city" of very diverse style and orientation; how
the various parts and pieces defined themselves architecturally and socially;
and how the parts constituted a functioning whole which dominated most of
the economic and cultural landscape of Northern China for almost 100 years.
http://wason.library.cornell.edu/Tianjin/ |
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Treasures
of the Asia Collections
Designed to showcase some of the many items in the Cornell University Library's
collection documenting the cultures of Asia. Through books, manuscripts,
photographs, and other documents, the exhibition highlights the culture
and literature of countries including China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia,
Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/asiaTreasures/default.htm |
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Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire Exhibit
This multimedia online exhibit presents original documents on the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911 in New York City, in which 146
factory workers, mostly immigrant women, met their untimely and tragic death
due to poor safety conditions within the factory.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ |
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The
Wason Collection on East Asia
An introduction to Cornell University Library's vast collection of books
and artifacts pertaining to China, Japan, Korea and Tibet. Part of Explore
Cornell.
http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Wason%20Collection |
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Women
in the Literary Marketplace: 1800-1900
The books and letters in this exhibition present a cross section of writing
by English women in the nineteenth century–a period when women entered
the literary marketplace in unprecedented numbers. The exhibition explores
how women authors achieved such remarkable success in a profession dominated
by men, operating in a culture that frowned upon female literary ambition.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/womenLit/ |
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Women
in Veterinary Medicine
Florence Kimball became the first woman in the United
States to receive the DVM degree in 1910. But the story of Cornell's pioneering
veterinary alumnae only begins with Dr. Kimball's groundbreaking accomplishment.
Thirty-three more women followed her through veterinary college at Cornell
in the period from 1910 and 1949. This is the best of their story.
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/library/archives/Legacy/index.htm |
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