Current Be Happy: The work of Barbara ValenzaNov 15 2024 - May 30 2025Kindness, positivity, imagination, hope, and happiness run through Barbara Valenza’s works like golden threads on a beautiful tapestry. In her illustrations and words, Valenza shared her artistic soul while also encouraging readers to embrace and express their own creativity. Belle da Costa Greene at Princeton, 1901–1905Nov 12 2024 - Feb 28 2025Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) is renowned today as the founding director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, where over a 40-year period she built a collection of unparalleled quality. Key to preparing da Costa Greene for her success in the exclusive world of rare books was her position at Princeton University Library, where she launched her career. Credit Line, Please: Photographs by Elizabeth MenziesJun 12 2024 - Mar 31 2025The University Archives owe a great deal of our visual evidence of Princeton University in the mid-twentieth century to local photographer, Elizabeth Menzies (1915-2003). Menzies contributed countless photographs of the Princeton campus to Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine starting in 1936, through World War II, and late into the 1960s. Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century BestiarySep 12 2024 - Dec 8 2024“Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary,” the Library's fall 2024 exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library, will focus on the use of animal and zoological motifs in visual satire between World War I and the Cold War. Powering Up the U.S. Labor Force: Women in Industry During World War II (1940-1945)Nov 25 2024 - Jun 30 2025Helen Baker developed an unparalleled collection of industrial relations material at Princeton University Library. Baker joined the Industrial Relations Section in 1930 as the Section’s first librarian and research assistant, and became the first woman to achieve the rank of associate professor at Princeton in 1948. Upcoming The Most Formidable Weapon Against Errors: The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection & the Age of ReasonFeb 19 2025 - Jun 8 2025Between the 17th and 19th centuries, new conceptions of human liberty, political order, and scientific reasoning emerged in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Sid Lapidus ’59 has devoted many years to building a collection of rare books that demonstrates the emergence of Enlightenment ideas and their influence on politics, medicine, and society. Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th CenturyMay 1 2025 - Mar 31 2026 Past The Problem of Colored Lines: Student Debt and Racial DisparitiesMay 1 2023 - Aug 31 2024Inspired by the charts and maps created by sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois that depict wealth disparities between Blacks and whites, The Dignity + Debt Network and the VizE Lab for Ethnographic Data Visualization at Princeton University visualize the color lines and the social complexities within the urgent issue of student loan debt in this new exhibition. Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and BeyondFeb 21 2024 - Jun 13 2024Princeton University Library (PUL) is delighted to present “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond,” the spring 2024 exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. Curated by Sal Hamerman, Metadata Librarian for Special Collections at PUL, and Javier Rivero Ramos, a recent Ph.D graduate from the Department of Art & Archaeology Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches– Selections from the John Doar PapersApr 24 2023 - Mar 31 2024Opening April 24, 2023, a new exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library showcases photographs and documents from two watershed events during the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement: the Freedom Rides of 1961 and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965. Once Upon New Times: Reimagining Children’s ClassicNov 14 2023 - Mar 31 2024Come see tales transformed at “Once Upon New Times: Reimagining Children’s Classics,” currently on display at the Cotsen Children’s Library! Curated as a companion to the larger exhibit in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library, each item offers a different perspective on a cherished classic. In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to MorrisonSep 6 2023 - Dec 10 2023In honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623, Princeton University Library (PUL) presents “In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison,” in PUL’s Milberg Gallery. Securing the Social Safety Net: Princeton, J. Douglas Brown & the Cornerstone of Economic SecurityOct 7 2022 - Aug 3 2023“Securing the Social Safety Net: Princeton, J. Douglas Brown & the Cornerstone of Economic Security,” was created to help mark the 100-year anniversary of the Industrial Relations (IR) Section at Princeton University. The exhibition showcases the work of labor economist, and Princeton economics professor, J. Douglas Brown '19, *28, (1898-1986). Toni Morrison: Sites of MemoryFeb 22 2023 - Jun 4 2023“Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory” excavates the creative process of writer and former Princeton University Professor and 1993 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Curated by Autumn Womack, associate professor of English and African American Studies, the exhibition is the center of a community-wide exploration of how Morrison’s archive continues to influence us today. Princeton 275May 2 2022 - Mar 27 2023A 2022 exhibition at Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library to celebrate the 275th anniversary of Princeton University's founding. Debt Collectors SeriesNov 10 2021 - Dec 31 2022Conceptualized by Frederick F. Wherry *00 *04, the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton, the “Debt Collectors Series” tells the story of the debt industry, and features re-envisioned artwork by Ari Riggins ’23 and Rachel Mrkaich ’21. Records of ResistanceSep 7 2022 - Dec 11 2022Selma, Lahore, Warsaw, Santiago…”Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021,” captured continuity and change in practices of protest and activism in diverse geographic contexts and around issues that may be particular to an area or of universal concern. Pagination Page 1 Next page ››
