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Exhibitions at Rauner
Rauner Special Collections Library installs numerous exhibits throughout the year as a part of our outreach efforts to the community. At any given moment, the exhibit space in the Class of '65 Galleries is filled with fascinating items from our collections. Here you can browse the posters, labels, and materials from current as well as previous exhibits.
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More Than a Monster
Medusa Misunderstood
You might know her from Caravaggio’s famous Medusa, the face of Versace, the book, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or some other adaptation of the ancient myth. Medusa is ubiquitous, appearing in Greek and Roman literature (from Hesiod’s Theogony to Ovid’s Metamorphoses) and in architecture, metalwork, vases, sculptures, and paintings throughout history. More...
The Exhibits
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More Than a Monster: Medusa Misunderstood | 20240325 March 25 - June 28, 2024 | Curated by Elizabeth Hadley '23, the Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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The Whirligig of Time: Shakespeare in the College Archive, 1623-2023 | 20231120 November 20, 2023 - March 15, 2024 | Curated by students in Professor Matthew Ritger’s ENGL 15 Shakespeare class | Materials List |
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Through the Eyes of a Cat: the Wrangel Island Expedition | 20230927 September 27, 2023 - November 10, 2023 | Curated by Sam Milnes & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Histories Unheard: Celebrating Five Years of Historical Accountability Research | 20230619 June 19 - September 15, 2023 | Curated by Val Werner & Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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Truth and Lies: The Native American Narrative | 20230403 April 3 - June 16, 2023 | Curated by Sydnie Ziegler '22, 2022-2023 Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Altered States: An Exhibit of Books Broken, Censored, Marked Up, and Made Art | 20230103 January 3 - March 17, 2023 | Curated by Daniel Abosso, Subject Librarian (Baker-Berry Library) and installed by Lizzie Curran, Assistant Curator (Baker-Berry Library) | Materials List |
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A Fighting Tradition: Dartmouth in American Wars | 20220919 September 19 - December 3, 2022 | Curated by Ryan Irving '24, current president of the Student Veterans Association | Materials List |
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Sharing the Computer: How the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System Made Computing (More) Accessible | 20220628 June 28 - September 2, 2022 | Curated by Val Werner, 2021-2022 Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow. | Materials List |
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Finding Community: The Life of Edward Mitchell 1828 | 20220408 April 8 - June 17, 2022 | Exhibit text by Forrester “Woody” Lee ’68. Items selected and mounted by Jay Satterfield. | Materials List |
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Best of the Rauner Library Blog | 20220103 January 3 - March 25, 2022 | Curated by Peter Carini & Scout Noffke | Materials List |
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Illustrating 'Once Upon a Time' | 202109013 September 13 - December 3, 2021 | Curated by Scout Noffke | Materials List |
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Vanishing: Making of an Extinction Crisis | 20200601 June 2020 | Curated by Alexander Cotnoir '19, 2019-2020 Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Some Truly Odd Birds: Audubon's Mysterious Aviary | 20200301 March 2020 | Curated by Alexander Cotnoir '19, 2019-2020 Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Ties That Bind: Slavery at Dartmouth | 20191115 November 15, 2019 - March 13, 2020 | Curated by Deborah K. King’s “Lest We Forget: History, Collective Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth” Fall 2019 Class: Martha Aguirre Rubio ‘22, Evana Amok ‘23, Tiffany Chang ‘23, Chalayia Fuller ‘17, Jeer Seob Jung ‘20, Julia Levine ‘23, Morgan Mason ‘20, Pierce Wilson ‘23 | Materials List |
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Richly Coloured and Finely Wrought: The Bindings of Sangorski & Sutcliffe | 20190909 September 9 - November 15, 2019 | Eric Esau | Materials List |
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Experiencing Black Theater in America | 20190607 June 7 - September 6, 2019 | Stella Asa '22, Asanni Brown '21, Laura Calderon '19, Stephanie Everett '19, Arielle Isedenu '22, Rena King '20, Will Maresco '19, Devon Mattie '20, Jelinda Metelus '22, Eleanor Mitchell '20, Millenah Nascimento '21, Owen O’Leary '19, Daniella Omeruo '21, Kerrigan Quenemoen '20, Chelsea Rafferty '21, Lexi Warden '21, Sam West '20 - students in Dr. Monica Ndounou's "The Making of 21st Century Exhibits" Spring 2019 class. | Materials List |
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Let's Get Lunch | 20190405 April 5 - June 7, 2019 | Jaime Eeg, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Limits to Power: Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case | 20190102 January 2 - March 27, 2019 | Peter Carini | Materials List |
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Dartmouth's Wunderkammer: A Cabinet of Curiosities | 20181109 November 9 - December 14, 2018 | Elena Cordova | Materials List |
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Coeds & Cohogs: The Struggle over Female Integration at Dartmouth College | 20180910 September 10 - November 5, 2018 | Dayle Wang '20, Dante Mack '20, Matthew Ix '20, Madeline Press '20, David Nesbitt '20, Rushil Shukla '20, Ian Reed '21 & Christopher Meister '20 - students in Darrin McMahon's History 08 "The History of Equality" class | Materials List |
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Shelley's Frankenstein in Text and Image | 20180720 July 20 - September 7, 2018 | Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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Ledyard Canoe Club: A History of Exploration and Adventure | 20180416 April 16 - June 15, 2018 | Jaime Eeg, Rauner Student Research Fellow | Materials List |
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Map Stories: A World on a Page | 20180226 February 26 - April 13, 2018 | Sara Jane Holston, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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TRE: Renaissance Cities | 20171116 November 16, 2017 - February 23, 2018 | Tony DiPadova '19, Camila R. Feltrin '20, Daniela Jerez '18, Madeline Killen '18 , Nicolle Salazar '19 & Evan Strouss GR from Nancy Canepa's Italian 22 "Humanism and Renaissance" class | Materials List |
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Revolution! | 20170921 September 19 - November 10, 2017 | Jay Satterfield & Wendel Cox | Materials List |
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Adorn'd with Sculptures: John Ogibly and Jacob Tonson | 20170713 July 13 - September 8, 2017 | Morgan Swan & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Being Well: Life, Death, Medicine & Inequality | 20170505 May 5 - June 15, 2017 | Michael Brown \’20, Zoë Brown \’20, Kyle Clampitt \’20, Racquel Lyn \’20, Matthew Parker \’20 and Becca Rosko \’20 from Sienna Craig's ANTH 7.02 The Values of Medicine class | Materials List |
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Insta-Exhibit | 20170323 March 23 - May 1, 2017 | Hannah Chung, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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When Two Worlds Meet: East Asian Experiences in the West and at Dartmouth | 20170130 January 30 - March 17, 2017 | Hannah Chung, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Lives and Afterlives | 20161110 November 10, 2016 - January 27, 2017 | Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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"Power, Honor and Authority," Samson Occom and the Founding of Dartmouth College | 20160906 September 6 - October 28, 2016 | Peter Carini & Laura Braunstein | Materials List |
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"We look for light from within": Shackleton's Indomitable Spirit | 20160629 June 29 - September 2, 2016 | Rauner Library in Collaboration with Ross Virginia's Spring 2016 "Pole to Pole" class | Materials List |
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The Doctor Will See You Now... | 20160407 April 7 - June 13, 2016 | Lexi Crosswait '19, Lily Hanig '19, Nicole Knape '19, David Ramirez '19, Lucy Tantum '19, Amber Zimmerman '19 | Materials List |
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Light and Shadows in the Thirties | 20160216 February 16 - March 30, 2016 | Bay Lauris ByrneSim, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Up For Grabs: Campaigning, Debating and the New Hampshire Primary | 20160104 January 4 - February 12, 2016 | Barbara Krieger & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Moby-Dick, or, The Plurality of the Whale | 20150904 September 4 - November 15, 2015 | Bay Lauris ByrneSim, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Beyond Battlefields: The Civil War's Cultural Impact | 20150618 June 18 - August 25, 2015 | Amanda Geduld '15, Colleen Scannell '15, & Elissa Watters '15 from Colleen Boggs's English 72: Civil War Literatures | Materials List |
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A Cabinet of Curiosities: Meraviglia in the 17th Century | 20150320 March 20 - June 15, 2015 | Nancy Canepa's Italian 23 class: Simone T. Smith '15, Ana Sofia Gallagher '15, Henry Anderson '15, Marisa A. Werner '16 & Elizabeth Bertasi '15 | Materials List |
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How the Experts Build a Snowman | 20150206 February 6 - March 1, 2015 | Barbara Krieger & Jay Satterfield | |
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Budd Schulberg and the Scripting of Social Change | 20141104 November 4, 2014 - January 30, 2015 | Maria Fernandez, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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Corresponding Friendships: Robert Frost’s Letters | 20150206 February 6 - March 1, 2015 | Laura Braunstein & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Free Men All: The Civil Rights Movement at Dartmouth | 20140830 August 30 - October 3, 2014 | Julia Logan | Materials List |
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Item as deScribed: Medieval and Contemporary Illuminations | 20140801 August 1 - 31, 2014 | Ben Patrick & Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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A Richer Dust: Rupert Brooke & The Culture of Mourning | 20140604 June 4 - July 31, 2014 | Laura Braunstein & Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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"A Matter of Absolute Necessity": Eleazar Wheelock & Moor's Indian Charity School | 20131202 December 2, 2013 - February 28, 2014 | Shermaine Waugh, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow | Materials List |
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The Lost Weekend & Dartmouth | 20130906 September 6 - November 30, 2013 | Eric Esau | |
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When Adam Delved & Eve Span: William Morris & the Politics of the Book | 20130701 July 1 - August 30, 2013 | Laura Braunstein & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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The Body: Depressed, Flayed & Stolen From the Grave | 20130402 April 2 - June 21, 2013 | Caitlin Zellers '16, Lynn Huang \16 & Regan Haegley '16 from Sienna Craig's Anthropology 7 class "The Values of Medicine" | Materials List |
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American Curmudgeons | 20130107 January 7 - February 28, 2013 | Morgan Swan | Materials List |
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Natural Philosophy in a Time of Revolution | 20121001 October 1 - November 30, 2012 | Ilana Grallert & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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It's Political: Political Action & Ephemera in Special Collections | 20120806 August 6 - September 30, 2012 | Josh Lascell & Peter Carini | |
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Is Not My Word Like Fire? Eleazar Wheelock and the Great Awakening | 20120510 May 10 - July 30, 2012 | Eliz Kirk, Associate Librarian for Information Resources | Materials List |
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Unlocked! Dartmouth’s Chamber of Secrets | 20120307 March 7 - April 30, 2012 | Rich Kremer's "Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science" class | |
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Literary Gentlemen and a Girl Like I | 20111215 December 15, 2011 - February 29, 2012 | Anne Peale, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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The King's English: The 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible | 20110902 September 2 - October 31, 2011 | Anne Peale, Edward Connery Lathem '51 Special Collections Fellow & Eric Esau | Materials List |
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Cultivating Secret Gardens: Frances Hodgson Burnett and Children's Fiction | 20110706 July 6 - August 31, 2011 | Laura Braunstein & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Bringing out the Leaves: Manuscripts and their Meaning | 20110502 May 2 - July 1, 2011 | John M. Burden '11, Benjamin A. Groveman '12, Lia D. Grigg '11, Kevin L. Mallen '11, Olivia Leigh M. Martin '13, Bridgette T. Taylor '13, Madeline L. Sims '12, Emily J. Ulrich '11 & Professor Michelle Warren | Materials List |
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The Original FSP: George Ticknor Brings Spain to New England | 20110302 March 2 - April 30, 2011 | 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 & Professor Noelia Cirnigliaro of Spanish 53 (Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Politics of Language) | Materials List |
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Inspired By: Student/Artist/Book/Work | 20110201 February 1 - February 28, 2011 | Highlights work by students Eve Ahearn, Gitae Lee, Cristina Pellegrini, and Lily Ringler from "The Book Arts Studio Seminar," taught by Alex Halasz, Amy Borezo & Lynne Avadenka | |
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Adventure of the Archives: Detecting Sherlock Holmes in Rauner | 20101101 November 1 - December 22, 2010 | Laura Braunstein | Materials List |
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Cool at Rauner: A Year of Blogging Special Collections | 20100902 September 2 - October 31, 2010 | Joshua Shaw & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Dogs at Dartmouth: A Light-Hearted Look at Dartmouth's Canine Population at Play and at Work | 20100701 July 1 - August 31, 2010 | Mary Donin & Eric Esau | Materials List |
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From the Destruction of Troy: Medieval Chronicles | 20100510 May 10 - June 30, 2010 | Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Surveying the Road Not Taken | 20100301 March 1 - May 1, 2010 | Students in College Course 2 | |
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Animal Magnetism: The Enduring Allure of the Bestiary | 20100106 January 6 - February 28, 2010 | Eliz Kirk, Associate Librarian for Information Resources | Materials List |
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Beasts and Monsters: Discovering Antiquity in New Worlds | 20091104 November 4, 2009 - January 5, 2010 | Pauline M. Gonzales, graduate student in Comparative Literature, & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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An Enduring Passion: The DOC at 100 | 20090901 September 1 - October 31, 2009 | Barbara Krieger & Peter Carini | Materials List |
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American Insight: Charting Terra Incognita | 20090710 July 10 - August 31, 2009 | Josh Lascell & Peter Carini | Materials List |
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Words of Welcome, Words of Farewell | 20090606 June 6 - July 10, 2009 | Barbara Krieger | |
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Research At Rauner: From Inspiration to Publication | 20090420 April 20 - June 5, 2009 | Sarah Hartwell & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Memorial Poems: Civil War Literature in Context | 20090203 February 3 - March 31, 2009 | Virginia Deaton, Nicole LaBombard & David Schmidt of Colleen Boggs's English 71: The Civil War in Literature | Materials List |
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Born in the USA: Stories of American Scientific Instruments & Their Makers | 20081204 December 4, 2008 - January 31, 2009 | Professor Kremer's Physics 7 Seminar class | |
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The Dartmouth Jack-o-Lantern: 100 Years of Attitude | 20081015 October 15 - November 30, 2008 | Jack-O-Lantern staff & Peter Carini | |
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Frontier Fantasies: Imagining the American West in the Dime Novel | 20080815 August 15 - October 14, 2008 | Laura Braunstein | Materials List |
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The Poet Present: In Robert Frost's Hand and Voice | 20080607 June 7 - August 15, 2008 | Jay Satterfield | |
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Slavic Connections: Selections from the Holdings of Rauner Special Collections Library | 20080414 April 14 - May 31, 2008 | Eric Esau & John DeSantis | |
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Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Galvanometer: Finding Clues in Scientific Instruments | 20080304 March 4 - April 11, 2008 | Professor Kremer's Physics 7 Seminar class | |
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Fitzgerald's Lost Weekend: Winter Carnival 1939 | 20080201 February 1 - March 3, 2008 | Jay Satterfield & Peter Carini | Materials List |
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Engraved by the Hands of Angels: The Literary Illustrations of William Blake | 20071127 November 27, 2007 - January 31, 2008 | Laura Braunstein | Materials List |
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Atlantic Exchange: Books, Ideas, and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture | 20071001 October 1 - November 23, 2007 | Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Inspired Editions: John Bunyan and His Illustrators | 20070803 August 3 - September 30, 2007 | Patti Houghton & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Navigating the Northwest Passage: Just Missing The Ice | 20070525 May 25, 2007 - July 31, 2007 | Tiffany Chang '09 & Nicole Stuckenberger | Materials List |
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200 Years of the Handel Society at Dartmouth: To Improve and Promote True and Genuine Music | 20070401 April 1 - May 24, 2007 | Barbara Krieger | Materials List |
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice's Adventures in Rauner | 20070209 February 9 - March 31, 2007 | Patti Houghton, Barbara Krieger & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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In the Name of Service: Margaret A. Otto, 1937-2006 | 20061215 December 15, 2006 - January 31, 2007 | Rauner staff | |
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This Book is Condemned: A Look at the Notorious Career of Thomas James Wise | 20061027 October 27 - November 30, 2006 | Patti Houghton | |
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Documenting Invention: Patents and the Protection of the Useful Arts | 20060801 August 1 - September 30, 2006 | Eric Esau & Barbara Krieger | Materials List |
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Reinventing Dartmouth: In John Kemeny's Words | 20060601 June 1 - July 31, 2006 | Mary Donin & Peter Carini | |
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Uncle Tomitudes | 20060403 April 3 - May 31, 2006 | Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Romance in Rauner | 20060207 February 7 - March 31, 2006 | Jay Satterfield, Barbara Krieger & Patti Houghton | |
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The 09's and Their Toys: The Changing Face of Science at Dartmouth | 20051129 November 29, 2005 - January 31, 2006 | Rich Kremer's "Material Culture of Science" class | |
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Beauty in Use: 50 Years of the Janus Press | 20051101 November 1, 2005-November 28, 2005 | Patti Houghton & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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"Green Grass Everywhere": Walt Whitman at Dartmouth | 20051010 September 10, 2005 - October 31, 2005 | Laura Braunstein & Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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Dartmouth Mysteries | 20050801 August 1, 2005 - September 9, 2005 | Barbara Krieger & Patti Houghton | Materials List |
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A Masque of "Ours": The Rise of Pageantry in America | 20050610 June 10, 2005 - July 29, 2005 | Jay Satterfield | Materials List |
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The Legacy of Errol Gaston Hill | 20050510 May 10, 2005 - June 9, 2005 | Bonnie Wallin | |
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Dartmouth Icons | 20050307 March 7, 2005 - May 9, 2005 | Rich Kremer's Physics 7 class | |
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Finding "Neverland" in Special Collections: Peter Pan on Stage and Page | 20050210 February 10, 2005 - March 3, 2005 | Patti Houghton & Bonnie Wallin | |
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A Tribute to Trina: Trina Schart Hyman, 1939-2004 | 20041201 December 1, 2004 - January 31, 2005 | Patti Houghton | |
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Getting Out the Vote: Political Broadsides and Campaign Literature in Special Collections | 20041030 October 30, 2004 - November 31, 2004 | Barbara Krieger |
