The entries below are in reverse chronological order. See Publications in Print for a list of available exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition Title and Curator
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2005 November 7
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2006 May 1
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"Eyre Apparent: An Exhibition Celebrating Charlotte Brontë’s Classic Novel."
Curators: John Buchtel and Barbara Heritage.
Description.
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2005 May 16
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Oct 31
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"The Call of the Wild: Character Building and the Boy Scout Handbook."
Curator: William Ingram '05. Description.
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2004 April 25
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Nov 1
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"116 Years of Corks & Curls."
Curator: Whitney Spivey '05. Description.
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2003 June 1
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Oct 31
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"Reading with and without Dick and Jane: The Politics of Literacy in c20 America."
Curator: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer ('03 CLAS). Description.
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2003 Jan 17
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May 1
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"The Lives of the Autograph Collectors."
Curator: Nathaniel Adams ('03 CLAS). Description.
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2002 July 15
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Oct 31
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"Printed Flower Gardens: The Bookbindings of Margaret Armstrong."
Curator: Sarah Hagelin. Description.
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2001 July 16
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Oct 28
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"Intentional Miscataloging: The Pedagogical Uses of Ephemera in the Rare
Book School Collections." Curator: Edmund Berkeley, Jr. Description.
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2000 June 5
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2001 Jan 31
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"Eureka! There's Gold in Them Thar Books." Curator: Calvin P. Otto | Exhibition brochure (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
1999 May
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Oct
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"Two for a Nickel: Ephemera Concerning Thomas Jefferson and Monticello";
mounted in cooperation with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
Elliot Tally (UVa '99), curator.
Description.
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1999 Feb 10
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Apr 30
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Exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the death of George
Washington, curated by UVa's George Washington Papers Project.
Description.
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1998 Oct 17
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Feb 6
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"You CAN Sell a Book by Its Cover: Optimism in
American Publishing." Description.
Darby Kimball ('00 SEAS), Curator.
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1998 May 25
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Oct 12
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"The Boy Who Never Grew Up: Dinosaur Books and Realia from the
Collection of Edward J. Valauskas." Description.
Edward
J. Valauskas, curator.
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1998 Jan 21
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May 8
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"Separate Pieces: All Printed Books are Different." Description.
Terry Belanger and John Buchtel, curators.
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1997 Sep 19
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Dec 22
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"Only in Cloth: Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910, from the
Collections of Calvin P. Otto." Calvin P Otto, curator. | Printed catalog (published by the Book Arts Press)
1997 Jun 20
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Sep 14
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"Devil's Toyshop: The Teaching Resources of the Book Arts Press."
Terry Belanger, curator.
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1997 Feb
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May 27
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"It Is Impossible to Sell Animal Stories in America, Mr
Orwell: George Orwell and His Publishers." Drawing on the collection
of Daniel J. Leab. Daniel J. Leab, curator. | brochure and catalog
1996 Sep 16
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Dec 16
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"A Doré Gallery: Wood-Engravings by Gustave
Doré."
Terry Belanger and Shawnee Sequeira (UVa '95), curators. | brochure
1996 Apr 20
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Sep 10
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"Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in World War
II." Daniel J. Miller (UVa '96), curator. | printed catalog virtual catalog
1996 Jan 18
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Apr 15
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"UVa in 1921: The Corks & Curls View." Terry Belanger, curator.
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1995 Oct 19
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Dec 21
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"Wastebasket Archaeology: American Ephemera 1876-1995
from the Collections of Calvin P. Otto." Calvin P. Otto, curator.
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1995 Sep 29
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Oct 16
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"Woodcuts of Rural America by J. J. Lankes." Peter
A. Agelasto III, with Welford D. Taylor, curators.
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1995 Jul 11
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Sep 23
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"Lucile's Adventures in America, 1860-1910: Orchids,
Gold Leaf, and Padded Leather." Sidney F. Huttner and Elizabeth Stege
Huttner, curators.
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1995 Mar 30
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Jun 30
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"Charlottesville: A Book Town." Terry Belanger, curator.
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1995 Jan 22
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Mar 24
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"Daniel Melcher on Melcher: From Boyhood to Bowker and
Beyond" [Daniel Melcher of the R. R. Bowker Company.] Jared
Loewenstein, curator. | catalog (published by the UVa Library)
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