Browse Exhibits (18 total)
ARHI 130 Modern Latinx American Art
In this virtual display, curated for the Pomona College ARHI 130 class, you will find selected materials from Special Collections and other digitized resources from outside collections. Session 1 includes images of Pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American materials, ranging from Mesoamerican painted manuscripts, maps, and engravings. Session 2 includes images from archival collections, featuring graphic imagery and posters. Please click on the options to your right to explore the collections.
ART 136 The Artists' Book: Summer 2020
In this virtual display, curated for the Scripps ART 136 class, you will find selected materials from Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library. Materials from Special Collections feature zines and prints, highlighting different formats, materials, and techniques. Please click the options to your right to explore the two collections.
AMST 180 American Studies Seminar
In this virtual display, curated for the AMST 180 American Studies Seminar, you will find selected materials from Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library. Materials from Special Collections feature digital items from the Claremont Colleges Digital Library.
HSA 10 Intro to the History of the Book: Class Materials
In this virtual display, you will find selections from Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library. You will also find digitized primary resources from other collections.
ART 136 Artist's Book: Class Materials
In this virtual display, curated for the Scripps ART 136 class, you will find selected materials from Special Collections and the Asian Library at The Claremont Colleges Library. Materials from Special Collections feature print portfolios and poetry broadsides. Materials from the Asian Library feature East Asian rare books, ancient woodblock plates, and movable types. Please click the options to your right to explore the two collections.
HIST 300 Intro to Doing History & to Being an Historian
Curated for HIST 300, this virtual exhibit contains digitized versions of materials found in Special Collections. These items are to help course students "read" primary sources and think about related secondary sources.
Materials in this virtual exhibit include primary sources spanning 1601/2 to 2020 on a variety of topics including American missionaries imprisoned by the Japanese in China, California as an island, the COVID-19 pandemic, English Privy Council correspondence, Frederick Douglass and civil rights, Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the United States, the Nicaragua Task Force (NTF), the Sanctuary Movement in the United States, Soviet Union propaganda, and the Spanish Civil War.
Formats include an artists' book, an audio recording, a book, manuscripts, maps, and printed ephemera.
HIST 40 History of Africa to 1800
In this virtual display, curated for the Pomona College HIST 40 class, you will find selected materials from Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library. Materials from Special Collections include manuscripts, maps, and travelers' accounts. You will also find the slide deck and in-class activity for the class session. Please click the options to your right to explore the class exhibit.
HIST 182 Human Health and Disease in American History
Curated for HIST 182, this virtual exhibit contains digitized versions of materials found in Special Collections. These items are to help course students complete their Primary Source Analysis Paper assignment.
Materials in this virtual exhibit include primary sources spanning 1865 to 2014 on a variety of health and medical topics including the 1918 flu pandemic, smallpox, AIDS, transexualism, Native Americans, diet, hygiene, Women's health, and mental health.