Beauties of Nature: Flower and Landscape Gardening in Europe, 1700-1850

"Beauties of Nature" traces changes in taste from valuing grandiose formality to emulating nature, and changes in the study of botany from simple observation to a modern science. But it also traces changes in who the people were who practiced flower gardening and landscaping, from soley upper class men to a much wider array of both men and women.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120291/1/Beauties_of_Nature_11.pd

By Land, Sea, and Air: Historic Works from the Transportation History Collection

The University of Michigan's Library's Transportation History Collection now includes thousands of rare and important books and periodicals on railroads (including several thousand volumes on railroad annual reports and other official documents), early air navigation, ships, carriages, automobiles (particularly early 20th century luxury models), and the planning and building of highways, as well as manuscripts and archives, printed ephemera, and a rich collection of prints, drawings, and photographs on these topics. One thing that becomes evident is the deep roots of this collection within an engineering and technological framework. Although many of the items in "By Land, Sea and Air" have great beauty, their importance is most often measured by what they can tell us about technological achievements in transportation.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120292/1/by_land_sea_and_air_07.pd

Challenging Religious Dogma: A History of Free Thought

"Challenging Religious Dogma" traces the roots of freethinking in Europe and the United States back to the ancient world and up to the late 20th century. The early materials illustrate the strength of Special Collections' rare books, with marvelous copies of works by Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo, as well as Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. Most of the 19th and 20th century materials come from the holdings of the Labadie Collection, founded through a generous gift of the personal papers and library of Jo Labadie, the "gentle Anarchist" of Detroit, in 1911. The Labadie Collection is one of the richest assemblages of primary sources of social protest literature in the world.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120294/1/challenging_dogma_97.pd

The Seven Ages of Man: The Human Life Cycle Throughout Medical History: Selected Materials from the Rare Book Room of the Taubman Medical Library

"The Seven Ages of Man" is an opportunity to gather together many famous texts from medical history as people saw them hundreds of years ago. It is also an opportunity to reflect on how important discoveries in medicine have shaped culture and altered human history. The materials remind us vividly of all the life experiences we have in common with ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, as well as physicians, midwives, and scientists from the Middle Ages to the present.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120278/1/seven_ages_of_man_02.pd

Netherlandic Treasures at the University of Michigan Library: An Exhibit

"Netherlandic Treasures" features some of the rarest and most beautiful Netherlandic books and manuscripts held by the University of Michigan Library. This collection is one fo the strongest in the United States and reflects the close ties to the Low Countries the University of Michigan has maintained.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120263/1/netherlandic_treasures_02.pd

Radical Responses to the Great Depression

The Great Depression conjusrs up one of the profound American twentieth-century experiences. It was a time of breadlines, soup kitchens, and shanty settlements, punctuated by large-scale industrial strife as labor organizations received a strong impetus. Drawing on the Labadie Collection of social protest materials, the U-M Special Collections Library presents a range of manuscripts and books, as well as posters, pamphlets, newspapers, buttons, and stamps demonstrating radical responses to this uniquely American crucible.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120273/1/radical_responses_04.pd

Suave Mechanicals

In "Suave Mechanicals" guest curator Julia Miller has created a rich and vibrant array of bindings that tell the history of bookbinding from ancient times to the present through original exemplars of the art dating from as far back as the 12th century.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120282/1/suave_mechanicals_03.pd

Dynamite Voices: The Broadside Press of Detroit, 1985-1998

"Dynamite Vocies" celebrates the acquisition of the archive of the Broadside Press by the University of Michigan Special Collections Library. The archive was acquired from Hilda and Don Vest, owners of the Press from 1985 to 1998, and includes correspondence, business records, grant applications, audio and video recordings, photographs, posters, and publications of the Broadside Press from its beginnings in 1965 to the present.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120247/1/dynamite_voices_01.pd

Portrait of a people: the Jewish Heritage Collection dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris

The Jewish Heritage Collection was a gift made jointly to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the University Library, which aptly reflects the comprehensive and unique nature of this collection. This collection combines materials traditionally found in libraries (e.g., books, pamphlets, printed ephemera, and manuscripts) with objects of museum quality (artwork and historical artifacts) and an assortment of items of humbler nature used in everyday life. The curators have chosen several themes around which to organize the display, in order to demonstrate both interesting items from the collection and topics for study it can easily support. The full Portrait of a People Online Exhibit follows a brief biography of Constance Harris and an excerpt from her book, The Way Jews Lived. as well as essays on how the collection was assembled and how it will be used written by the Elliot Gertel and Erica Lehrer.Special Collections Libraryhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108167/1/Portrait-of-a-people.pd