Archive for 'Archives and Special Collections' Category
New Archives & Special Collections Exhibition
31 March 2008Stop by the Theta Rho room outside Archives & Special Collections to see our latest exhibition: The Art of Illustrating the Book. You’ll see a selection of some interesting items from our collections that trace the development of illustration methods from the Middle Ages to the present. The exhibition also features a selection of local [...]
Pretty Shield Focus of New Exhibit
5 February 2008Montana author Frank Bird Linderman’s life-long fascination with the West comes alive in his books about the frontier, trappers, and Native American lives and legends. A new exhibit on the main floor of the Mansfield Library provides insight into the creation of his 1932 work, Red Mother, the life story of Pretty-shield, a Crow medicine [...]
$3000 Library Research Scholarship Available
23 January 2008The Mansfield Library is pleased to once again offer the Susan Koch Library Research Scholarship. This $3000 Scholarship is given to the student who submits the best paper or project using resources from the Library’s Archives, Special Collections, and/or Government Documents collections. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday April 16, 2008 at 5pm. Guidelines and additional [...]
New Exhibition from Archives & Special Collections
7 December 2007Explore Montana’s mercantile history in Before Box Stores and Supermarkets, a new exhibition on display in the Theta Rho Room on Level 4 of the Mansfield Library. Using items and images drawn from Archives & Special Collections, the exhibition highlights the history of commerce in Montana – from the founding of the area’s earliest trading [...]
Archives and Special Collections Blog
21 November 2007Keep up to date with what’s happening at the Mansfield Library’s Archives and Special Collections with our new blog. We’ll be posting announcements about exhibitions, new acquisitions, and other events, and we’ll also be highlighting some interesting or unusual items from our collections from time to time. You can also find links to descriptions of [...]
New music and art set in Special Collections
14 August 2007Archives and Special Collections at the Mansfield Library now has a set of artwork and music in an edition entitled Eighteen Portraits created by the American artist, Maurice Grosser (1903-1986), and American composer, Virgil Thomson (1896-1989).This set is a lithographed reproduction of the original charcoal drawings and musical portraits of Grosser and Thomson’s mutual friends. [...]