Previous & Online Exhibitions
Wardrobes and Rabbit Holes: A Dark History of Children's Literature
November 7, 2012 - March 22, 2013
Curator: Eisha Neely
June 7, 2012 - December 21, 2012
Curator: Lance Heidig
Collecting Imagination:
Treasures from the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination
June 7, 2012 - October 29, 2012
Curator: Jay Walker
Dawn’s Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography
October 20, 2011 – May 27, 2012
Curator: Jenny Bagert
Animal Legends: From the Trojan Horse to Godzilla
March 4, 2011 - October 14, 2011
Curator: Laurent Ferri
Werner Pfeiffer: Book-Objects and Artist Books
October 20, 2010 - February 25, 2011
Curator: Werner Pfeiffer
The Art & Life of Alison Mason Kingsbury
November 20, 2010 - February 25, 2011
Curator: Jillian Piccirilli
Android Dreams: Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott's Replicant Futures
August 19, 2010 - October 8, 2010
Curator: Gabriel McKee
Known to Everyone - Liked by All: The Business of Being Mark Twain
April 23, 2010 - October 8, 2010
Curator: Lance Heidig
The Lincoln Presidency: Last Full Measure of Devotion
October 20, 2009 - April 16, 2010
Curator: Katherine A. Reagan
Song of the Vine: A History of Wine
June 5, 2008 to February 2, 2009
Curators: Evan Earle and Eileen Heeran
“I Would Found an Institution”: The Ezra Cornell Bicentennial
March 8 to September 20, 2007
Curators: Elaine Engst and Carol Kammen
25 Years of Political Influence: The Records of the Human Rights Campaign
Online
Curator: Brenda J. Marston
Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane
September 29, 2006 to February 24, 2007
Curators: Katherine Reagan and Susan Jaffe Tane
In the Founders’ Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell University Library
June 8 to September 23, 2006
Curator: Katherine Reagan
Vanished Worlds, Enduring People: Cornell University Library's Native American Collection
October 21, 2005 to June 2, 2006
Curator: Mary Dana Marks
Nabokov at Cornell: Celebrating Lolita's Fiftieth Anniversary
September 7 to October 17, 2005
Curator: Katherine Reagan
From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection
June 9 to October 12, 2005
Curators: Margaret Nichols and Katherine Reagan
The Passionate Collector: Willard Fiske and his Libraries
February 10 to May 28, 2005
Curators: Patrick Stevens, Eleanor Brown, Elaine Engst, Susette Newberry and Katherine Reagan
Get Out the Vote!
Campaigning for the U. S. Presidency
October 7, 2004 to February 4, 2005
Curator: Susette Newberry
600 Years of Urban Planning and Development in and around Tianjin
Winter 2004: April 7 - June 4, 2004
Curator: Thomas Hahn
Early Black Women at Cornell: Part and Apart, 1890s-1930s
February 2 - March 31, 2004
Curators: Petrina Jackson and Brenda Marston
Legacy of Leadership | Cornell's Presidents
Fall 2003 - Winter 2004
Curator: Elaine Engst and Susette Newberry
Artifex:
Leonard Baskin & the Gehenna Press
Fall 2003: October 2, 2003 - January 9, 2004
Curator: Susette Newberry
“I will be heard!”:
Abolitionism in America
Summer 2003: June 5, 2003 - September 27, 2003
Curators: Petrina Jackson and Katherine Reagan
Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time
Spring 2003: February 6, 2003 - May 30, 2003
Curators: Katherine Reagan, Neal Zaslaw, Augustus Arnone, Emily Dolan, Wiebke Thormählen, and Lenore Coral
From Manuscript to Print:
The Evolution of the Medieval Book
Fall 2002: October 31, 2002 - January 31, 2003
Curators: Robert Ziomkowski and Katherine Reagan
Not by Bread Alone:
America’s Culinary Heritage
Summer 2002: June 6 - October 4, 2002
Curators: Katherine Reagan, Eleanor Brown, Eileen Keating, Brenda Marston, Margaret Nichols, and Susan Szasz Palmer
Women in the Literary Marketplace:
1800-1900
Spring 2002: February 8 - May 31, 2002
Curator: Katherine Reagan
Treasures of the Asia Collections
Fall/Winter 2001: August 24 - December 21, 2001
Curators: Thomas Hahn (China), Ved Kayastha (South Asia), Frederick Kotas (Japan), and Allen Riedy (Southeast Asia), with Elaine Engst and Susan Szasz Palmer (RMC)
From Domesticity to Modernity:
What Was Home Economics?
Spring/Summer 2001: March 30 - August 17 2001
Curator: Eileen Keating
Vote!
An Exhibition of Political Americana
Winter 2000: October 17 2000 - March 16 2001
Curator: Susan Szasz Palmer
Living and Reliving the Icelandic Sagas
Fall 2000: August 17 - October 10, 2000
Curator: Patrick J. Stevens
Nature’s Garland:
Illustrated Botanical Works from Cornell University Library
Summer 2000: June 8 - August 8, 2000
Curator: Katherine Reagan
William Wordsworth and the Romantic Imagination:
A Scholar’s Collection
Spring 2000: February 7, - May 30, 2000
Curator: Paul F. Betz
Beautiful Birds:
Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection
Summer 1999: June 10 - September 30, 1999
Guest Curator: Jeanne White
The Art of the Book:
500 Years of Printing, Illustration, and Bookbinding
Winter 1998: January - April, 1998
Spring 1999: December - May, 1999
Curator: Katherine Reagan
Laura (Riding) Jackson & the Promise of Language
Fall 1998: October - December, 1998
Curator: Margaret Nichols
The Well-Tempered Collection:
Music Resources at Cornell University
October 17, 1997 - January 10, 1998
Curators: Lenore Coral and Jim Cassaro
I Take This Pen in Hand:
Letters Home From Everyday People
Summer 1997: June - September, 1997
Curator: Lorna Knight
The Instinct of an Artist:
Shaw and the Theatre
Spring 1997: March - June, 1997
Curator: Ann Ferguson
The Prize:
Cornell Nobel Laureates
Winter 1997: February 24 - April 5, 1997
Curator: Elaine Engst and Mark Dimunation
125 Years of Achievement:
A History of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning
Fall 1996: October - December, 1996
Curator: Elaine Engst
A Legacy of Ideas:
Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell Library
Summer 1996: June - September 1996
Curator: Mark Dimunation
Invention & Enterprise:
Ezra Cornell, a Nineteenth-Century Life
Spring 1996: April - June 1996
Curator: Elaine Engst
The Artistry of Elfriede Abbe
Winter 1996: January - March 1996
Curators: Ruth Copans (guest curator; Skidmore College Library), and Donna Hassler (guest curator; City University of New York)
Paper, Leather, Clay, & Stone:
The Written Word Materialized
Fall 1995: September - January 1995
Curators: Mark Dimunation, Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen (guest curator; Ithaca High School), and D. Fairchild Ruggles (guest curator; Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University)
