Exhibits

A Catalog of Early Works in Ray Stannard Baker Bee Collection
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
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.

Footpath to Freeway: The Evolution of Michigan Road Maps
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
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
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.

Feeding America
2 West
January 26, 2023 – January 28, 2023
The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.The Michigan State University Library and the