Browse Exhibits

Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance by African American Women
Curated by Adetokunbo Awosanmi, 2019.
The twenty-one books in the exhibit represent how invaluable the Harlem Renaissance was for African American children’s literature.

Commercial Art: Travel Posters in Special Collections
Curated by Allison Overschmidt, Bethany Bade, and Katy Bond, 2020.
This exhibit focuses on nine European travel posters from Spain, France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and Norway. In a century of much social, political, and economic change, these posters functioned as a way to search for national identities and to promote tourism to countries in financial need pre- and post- World Wars.

Hiller Collection
Curated by Yueheng Lyu, 2019.
The Hiller Collection documents cities, industries, farming, and everyday life in China during the second phase of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1948. The part of The Hiller Collection, Drawer Nine, in this exhibit focuses on two cities in Jiangsu Province. It is mainly about two cities in Jiangsu Province of China, Nanking (Nanjing) and Soochow (Suzhou).

John T. McCutcheon: A Cartoonist in his Prime, 1930s
Curated by Allison Cathey, 2021.
Works from American cartoonist John T. McCutcheon in the 1930s.

Preservation Week 2021 and the Adopt-A-Book Program
Curated by Lily Hunter, 2021.
This exhibit contains information on preservation within the library and the Adopt-A-Book program. This was completed in preparation for Preservation Week 2021, at the University of Missouri's Special Collections in Ellis Library.

The Art of Cartography: Cartes-à-figures
Curated by Lily McEwen, 2021.
Cartography is the art and science of map-making. During the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Cartography was experiencing a peak of knowledge intensified by the Dutch Golden Age. The Dutch Golden Age was a period of exploration, navigation, and colonization. The Dutch used their excellent sea-faring and navigational knowledge to traverse across the world reaching uncharted lands providing new geographical insight into Africa, Asia, and the New World. The Dutch were a 17th century global powerhouse. Maps...