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This week we're highlighting Faith Ringgold's illustrations for Letter from Birmingham City Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. Produced in 2007 for the Limited Editions Club, the book contains eight original serigraphs by Ringgold alongside a beautifully printed text by King. Special Collections has copies 119 and 132 from an edition of 400.
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the University of Missouri’s founding Feb. 11, 1839. Stop by the Student Center for the official kickoff starting at 11 a.m. with a brief program featuring Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, student leaders, Mini Mizzou, free surprises and birthday cake (while supplies last).
Today is the 175th anniversary of the founding of the University of Missouri on February 11, 1839. We're joining in on the celebrations by sharing the very first University of Missouri catalog, one of the oldest items in the University of Missouri Collection. It wasn't issued until 1843 – that's the first year the university had a senior class – but it's an important piece of our history and shows just how far we've come over these 175 years.
As you can see below, the first senior class was made up of five students – two of whom were named Robert Todd. If you've been around Columbia for a year or two, you may recognize some of the other last names on buildings and street signs around town.
There were no majors back then. Everyone took the same course of study, which was divided into three sessions per year.
"The University of Missouri having been permanently organized by the Board of Curators, and being now in successful operation, invites the candid attention of the public to its claims for general patronage."
For more on the history of the university, check out the digital exhibits available through the University Archives.
POYi began as a photographic contest in the spring of 1944 in Columbia, Missouri, when the Missouri School of Journalism sponsored its “First Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition” contest. The entries for book submissions to the contest are given to the Journalism Library every year and kept as a collection in the upstairs of the library. Read more…..
Angus and Betty McDougall were life partners for 70 years. He relied on her to be his best critic and advisor and their devotion to each other was inspirational. Their gift of their entire library includes predictable professional aspects of their lives like photo books but also high school yearbooks and cookbooks. This is a rare opportunity to explore the interests and values of Mac and Betty through the books they valued and kept in their home. Read more….
“Jack and Dorothy Fields were partners in life and partners in journalism. A travel photographer/writer team, they worked extensively in the South Pacific, and also in Europe and Scandinavia, as well as other places around the world. Read more….
Steve Weinberg, MU Emeritus Professor of Journalism, started collecting novels of and by journalists in 1983. He presented the collection to MU libraries in 1989 and periodically supplements the collections with new additions. The collection was housed in Ellis Special Collections until 2008 where it was moved to the MU Journalism Library. Read more…
When Betty Houchin Winfield, PhD, a specialist in political communication and mass media history, retired in 2011, she entrusted her life’s collection of books and videos to the safekeeping of the Journalism Library at the University of Missouri. Read more….
How about a little brainteaser with your Monday manuscript? This is a chess problem from a fourteenth-century manuscript. It's Fragmenta Manuscripta #194. The entire Fragmenta Manuscripta collection is online at the Digital Scriptorium.
