Exhibits
The Libraries have multiple exhibition opportunities to support curricular and co-curricular learning from pop-up exhibits to comprehensive gallery installations. For more information, please consult our proposal guidelines and timeline recommendations. Or, feel free to contact Terry Snyder.
Current Exhibits
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"Elizabeth Gray Vining: A Quaker in Post-War Japan" curated by Ella Culton '23
September 28, 2020—December 18, 2020
Heritage South Reading Room, Lutnick LibraryExplores issues related to U.S-Japanese relations in the post-World War II period through the eyes of Elizabeth Gray Vining. Vining was a Quaker educator and writer who served as the tutor to then-Crown Prince Akihito from 1946 to 1950. Curated by Ella Culton '23, the exhibit features materials from the Elizabeth Gray Vining papers held in Quaker & Special Collections.
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Romanticized Japan: Contextualizing Japan through the Western Gaze
October 19, 2020—February 5, 2021
Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, Lutnick LibraryAn exhibit curated by students in Erin Schoneveld’s Spring 2020 seminar Japanese Modernism Across Media, which examines the revolutionary transformation of Japanese artistic and exhibition practices from the late nineteenth century through the present day.
Digital Exhibits
Hugh D. Vail: "Volunteer Weatherman"
Curated by Grace Thiele '17
This exhibit provides a biography of Hugh D. Vail, a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Haverford College in the 1800s and is comprised of letters, an obituary, a Quaker meeting's genealogy, and a diary entry.
The Letters and Journals of Thomas Scattergood
Curated by Jordan Nieusma '14
This exhibit is made up of important and representative passages from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814).
Quakers and Slavery
Curated by John Anderies and Christopher Densmore
A joint digital project of Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library, this online projected coincided with an international conference on Quakers and slavery. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) was the first corporate body in Britain and North America to fully condemn slavery as both ethically and religiously wrong in all circumstances. It is in Quaker records that we have some of the earliest manifestations of anti-slavery sentiment, dating from the 1600s. After the 1750s, Quakers actively engaged in attempting to sway public opinion in Britain and America against the slave trade and slavery in general. At the same time, Quakers became actively involved in the economic, educational and political well being of the formerly enslaved.
Shakespeare in His Time and for All Time
Curated by Jon Sweitzer-Lamme '14 and co-curated by Thomas Littrell '15
This exhibit celebrates the 450th birthday of William Shakespeare through an exploration of the Shakespeare-related holdings of Haverford College's Special Collections.