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Special and Area Studies Collections - Exhibits
This colorful exhibition traces the continued presence of the text and images of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in American culture, by presenting a variety of editions, illustrators, media and artifacts, and showcasing the 1969 portfolio edition illustrated by Salvador Dali. The exhibition opens October 15th in Smathers Library (East) in the second floor exhibit gallery. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and runs through December 15.
Views of Padre Cícero and Brazil’s Northeast Region in the Ralph Della Cava Gift The life and times of Brazil’s Padre Cícero spanned 90 years (1844-1934); those decades were bracketed by massive droughts in the 1870s-1880s and again in 1905. The rugged Northeast interior became the scene of human misery and suffering as its society and infrastructure collapsed in chaos. Government and private relief efforts fell pitifully short as thousands died. Others fled for coastal cities and were swept into the hands of corrupt schemers and uncaring bureaucrats. From all this emerged Padre Cícero – who stayed on in the interior to minister to the suffering. From that good work grew a deep love and respect for him amongst the region’s masses. As the years went by, reports of miracles transferred that public devotion to political influence and power. This exhibit traced these dramatic happenings using materials given generously by Ralph Della Cava to the UF Libraries. Curated by Richard Phillips and Paul Losch. This exhibit was on display from August 15 through October 7; a reception, with Brazilian food and music by the UF campus group Jacaré, was held on September 17.
(Re)Collecting British Women Writers: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers in Special Collections (Re)Collecting British Women Writers focuses on the following themes: children's books, illustrated texts, science and nature, poems and letters, novels, women and girls, biography and Mary, Queen of Scots. The exhibit, prepared by Cathlena Martin, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, opened in conjunction with the fourteenth annual British Women Writers Conference, March 23-26, at the University of Florida. The exhibit is on display through May 21, 2006.
John Ormsbee Simonds Remembered: Visionary Landscape Architect, Planner, Educator, and Environmentalist (1913-2005) This exhibition is a retrospective of the life and career of one of the most influential American landscape architects of the twentieth century. Featuring drawings, plans, writings, photographs, and memorabilia from the John O. Simonds Papers, the exhibition focuses on his contributions to the profession as a practitioneer, author, and educator. Faculty and students of the UF Department of Landscape Architecture collaborated both in the creation of this exhibition and in arranging and describing the Simonds Papers. The exhibition will be on display in the Exhibit Gallery from November 15, 2005 until February 3, 2006.
75 Years of Blondie: 1930-2005 Celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Chic" Young's Blondie newspaper strip, this exhibition explores the early history and formative years of the strip. On display are strips that feature Blondie and Dagwood's tumultuous wedding, the successive birth and development of Cookie and Alexander, and the forgotten characters such as spirited Hiho and Dagwood's wealthy parents. The strips included in the exhibition are from the Don Ault collection, which has a run of the series from 1931 to 1953 and is housed in Special and Area Studies Collections. Contemporary strips are courtesy of The Gainesville Sun and the Little Big Books donated by Penny and Sol Davidson, which are part of the Baldwin Collection of Historical Children's Literature. The exhibition, which was curated by English Department graduate students Stephanie Boluk and "Tof" Eklund with assistance from Mil Willis, was on display during the month of October 2005.
Caribbean Collections in Special Collections This exhibition draws from the exceptional Caribbean rare books and manuscripts held in the Special and Area Studies Collections Department. It attempts to highlight the range of cultures and themes that make up the Caribbean Basin and its life over the past 500 years. Featuring photographs, engravings and etchings, maps, and manuscripts, the exhibition covers such topics as the war for Cuban independence, the Cuban sugar industry, slavery in the West Indies, and the Haitian revolution. The opening of the exhibition coincided with the 50th annual meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), and the exhibits were on display until June 30, 2005.
Help is on the Way! Comic Books and Superheroes in Special Collections Featuring comics selected from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, this exhibition primarily focuses on popular superheroes appearing in DC Comics from 1960 through present day, covering most of the "Silver Age." Displays are organized around heroes including Superman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Aquaman, The Atom, The Martian Manhunter, and Wonder Woman. Along with each hero's history and context, information is provided about the individual comic book issues included in the exhibit.
This exhibition focuses on the botanical illustrations found in works from the Rare Book Collection and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature. The exhibit is divided into six sections: Herbals, Gardening, Botany of Places: The Americas, Individual Plants, Periodicals, and Children's Literature. The various techniques employed to create the illustrations are explained to give some sense of the means used to create the different effects. The Exhibition Catalog is available in PDF format.
African American History in Special Collections This exhibition features a sampling of materials from our Special Collections holdings that document and illuminate the experience of African Americans. The items, selected with care by our curators, suggest a broad coverage of that experience in terms of both chronology and endeavors. We hope that this exhibit will broadcast the department's goal of enhancing our holdings in African American history and that we are interested in obtaining materials from the local to national level.
Cover Story: 19th Century Cloth Book Covers The 19th Century saw the introduction of cloth covered boards as bindings for books. This exhibit, highlighting of the holdings of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, is a chronologically arranged visual trip through the cloth covers of 19th-century American children's books.
Based upon holdings of the Belknap Collection, this exhibit features photographs, posters, memorabilia, publications, and other items highlighting 75 years of Academy Award-winning movie magic.
This exhibit displays selected maps of the Holy Land from 1493 through 1887, including woodcuts, copperplates, lithographs, and steel engravings. They trace mapmaking technologies and collaborations evident from the cradle of printing to the dawn of contemporary society and the digital age. Each map represents a concentrated production (among cartographer, engraver, publisher, patron, etc.) that, until the late nineteenth-century, stressed aesthetic and religious imagery over geographical accuracy.
Exhibits from the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida HistorySt. Augustine & Magnolia, Florida, in March 1888 This portfolio of 72 photographs depicts the hotels and sights of St. Augustine and a trip to Magnolia on the St. Johns in 1888 at the time of the opening of the Ponce de Leon Hotel. Included are images of St. Augustine's churches, the Castillo de San Marcos, the Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, and Casa Monica, views of the beach, and many other interesting shots taken by a private photographer and not published in other sources. From the William and Sue Goza Collection. Jacksonville in Flames! The 1901 Fire in Photographs. May 3, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of the great fire of Jacksonville. To commemorate the event, we present a digitized version of a little-known pamphlet depicting the fire and its aftermath. Joseph A. Ingram captured images of the conflagration shortly after it broke out. In a series of before and after shots, his photographs depict the city, the people who fought to save it, and the ruins left by the flames. A Tour of Central Florida and the Lower West Coast In December, 1865, George F. Thompson commenced a tour through Florida as Inspector, District 5, for the Freedmen's Bureau. His notes and final report, filled with information about the early months of Reconstruction, present lively observations on Gainesville, Ocala, Silver Springs, Tampa, Ft. Myers, Charlotte Harbor, Key West, and South Florida. Images of Alachua in the Age of Sinks and Citrus Explore the marvelous sink holes, prairies, and citrus groves of Alachua County in the 1890s. An online presentation of historic photographs, prints, sketches, and watercolors, including the work of James Calvert Smith. This exhibit was made possible by the E. Ashby Hammond Memorial Fund. Behind Closed Doors: A Television Documentary This web exhibit documents one of the most heinous episodes in modern Florida history, the witch hunt for communists and homosexuals conducted by the Johns Commission during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Produced by Allyson A. Beutke and Scott Litvak at the University of Florida School of Journalism. A videotape of their television program on this subject is also available. Up the St. Marys, an extract from Army Life in a Black Regiment The 1st South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was one of the first black regiments to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War. This exhibit reproduces Higginson's stirring account of the regiment's operations on the St. Marys River, Florida.
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