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Exhibits

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For Better For Worse

For Better For Worse

Online Exhibit

For Better For Worse

Original post date

May 02, 2023

A collection of early modern, English, conduct books offering helpful advice of the period on conduct, behavior, morals, values, spirituality, education, letter writing, personal relationships, and practical topics. This exhibit is about marriage advice in some of these books.

A Catalog of Early Works in Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection

A Catalog of Early Works in Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection

Original post date

May 02, 2023

For over a half-century the MSU Libraries has been acquiring and building an important collection of materials devoted to early bee keeping. The Baker Collection is especially strong in apiculture works printed in English, although other languages are well represented.

Healing Waters of Bath, United Kingdom

Healing Waters of Bath

Online Exhibit

Healing Waters of Bath

Original post date

May 02, 2023

Bath U.K.’s famous geothermal hot springs have attracted people since prehistoric times.  From the 17th century, people claimed the water had curative properties if one drank or bathed in it. Bath became a popular spa town, a place to live in and vacation at, to see and to be seen. 

Michigan Maps: Goodrich Tires

Footpath to Freeway: The Evolution of Michigan Road Maps

Original post date

May 02, 2023

A systematic review of the maps contained in Clason State Road Maps, touring atlases, and Green Guides reveal that the road legends and other map symbols varied over the years in systematic ways.

Michigan Writers

Michigan Writers

Online Exhibit

Michigan Writers

Original post date

May 02, 2023

The Michigan Writers Collection, located in Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, is devoted to collecting and making accessible all the manuscripts and published works of selected writers with important ties to Michigan. The Michigan Writers Series recognizes and highlights the literary work of important writers who live and work in Michigan.

Defoe and the Plague in London

Defoe and the Plague in London

Original post date

May 02, 2023

Daniel Defoe, 1660?-1731, was a London businessman, journalist, political pamphleteer, spy, and proponent of the novel as a literary genre. As the Second Plague Pandemic approached London in the early 1720’s, Defoe published Journal of the Plague Year and Due Preparations for the Plague to teach people about the experiences English people had had in the plague of 1664-1665.

Clason Road Maps

Clason Road Map & Atlas Site

Online Exhibit

Clason maps

Original post date

May 02, 2023

A systematic review of the maps contained in Clason State Road Maps, touring atlases, and Green Guides reveal that the road legends and other map symbols varied over the years in systematic ways.

The Adventures of K'tonton by Sadie Rose Weilerstein

Telling Family Stories

Online Exhibit

Telling Family Stories

Original post date

May 02, 2023

This exhibit features American Jewish cookbooks and schoolbooks from MSU Libraries’ Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections. American Jews, in their children's books and cookbooks, demonstrated the importance of religion and gender in their families, and asserted themselves as both American and international/multilingual.

Women and Botany in 18th and Early 19th‑Century England

Women and Botany in 18th and Early 19th‑Century England

Original post date

May 02, 2023

In the Enlightenment, learning about science became part of general, polite culture. Many authors wrote books for young children, women, or girls to introduce them to the new scientific discoveries about plants.

Catalogue of Rare Veterinary Books & Allied Subjects in Allied Husbandry in the Michigan State University Library

Catalogue of Rare Veterinary Books & Allied Subjects in Allied Husbandry in the Michigan State University Library

Original post date

May 02, 2023

This catalogue has been compiled to illustrate the extent of the Veterinary Medicine Historical Collection housed in the Special Collections Division of the Michigan State University Library. While this catalogue is by no means exhaustive of the subject, it should be a guide and a finding list for librarians, book dealers, collectors, veterinary faculty, and students.