Exhibits –

Library / George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives

Current Exhibits

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January 25, 2017 – June 5, 2017
Second Floor Gallery, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

Students in assistant professor Dana Byrd’s Fall 2016 art history course researched extensively in and collaborated with the College’s Special Collections & Archives to identify themes and curate unique photographic materials for this exhibition.

Past Exhibits

An online exhibition of rare books and 19th c. magazines commemorating the centenary of the extinction of the North American passenger pigeon in 2014

An online exhibition of notable works

An online version of a Bowdoin College Library exhibit, showing many of the fine bindings included in the Bliss Collection.

An online version of the exhibition displayed Spring Semester, 2011, which featured over 150 items from the 1,800 volume Harold M. Goralnick (Class of 1971) Pop-up Book Collection, which was donated to the College in 2008.