Category Archives: exhibits

Stella Yoh, Class of 2014 has curated a wonderful exhibit of the African photography of Peter Stanley. To quote from her introduction: "Hapa na Pale (“here and there” in Swahili) is an exhibition aimed at challenging the preconceived notions of “Africa,” by focusing on one African country, Tanzania, and honestly reflecting the authentic daily lives of the people. Captured in photos by freelance photographer Peter Stanley, the exhibition delivers a non-distorted version of Tanzania. The photos can be divided into mainly 4 categories: the urban scenes of the capital city Dar es Salaam; the rural scenes of Inner Tanzania; photos of the Masaai tribe; and photos of the Island of Zanzibar." The exhibit can be viewed on the fifth floor of Case Geyer. While you are here check out the exquisite display of John Gould’s images of hummingbirds from around the world. That exhibit is on the second floor of Case Geyer.

The Special Collections department invites you to check out our Summer 2010 exhibit of early postcards of Colgate (on Level 2 at Case).

It’s interesting to note that these are printed color images of Colgate, a technology that was not common to American postcard publishers until around 1930. All of the cards in this exhibit date from prior to or just after the First World War — that is, prior to 1919. How is this possible? As it happened, German printers were far ahead of the rest of the printing world in their ability to print colored cards. The original images for each card were obviously made in Hamilton, then shipped to Germany to be transferred to linen cards.

The postcards depict a Colgate both familiar and foreign. Whitnall field has stood the test of time, but what happened to the old Gymnasium that used to stand next to it, where J.C.C. is now? Are those bushy things next to Taylor Lake the same towering willows we walk past today?

We hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the exhibit, explore the images and find out what strikes you as the biggest change, and what has remained the same on our beautiful campus.

The new exhibit on Level 2 of Case-Geyer includes books, photographs, letters, and illustrations from the Victorian age. There are some Aubrey Beardsley illustrations, and Oscar Wilde letters, a 1st edition copy of On the Origin of the Species with a photogravure of Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, and many fine examples of the book arts.

There are two new movies coming out this Spring about this time period, Creation (about Darwin and the theory of evolution) and The Young Victoria. If you’re interested in them, you might check out the exhibit to immerse yourself a little further in Victoriana.

Photographs, cartoons, and other ephemera of George Bernard Shaw, all taken from the Richard S. Weiner Shaw Collection.  The exhibit features photographs taken by Shaw, one of his many photographic diaries, photographs by noted photographers such as Steichen and Karsh, cartoons by Max Beerbohm, and other amusing items, including a photograph of Shaw and William Crawshaw, former Colgate dean and professor of English.  It will be on view at Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology from October 15th until December 1.

A corresponding article on Shaw appears in the Colgate Scene, Summer 2009,  based on materials from Special Collections along with an interview with Carl Peterson, Head of Special Collections and University Archivist.

The attached photograph is Shaw and Sir Robert Ho Tung (right), the Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist, and grandfather of Colgate alumnus and benefactor Robert H.N. Ho ’56.

Mrs. James C. Colgate was one of the original 500 subscribers who helped finance Curtis’ decade-long expedition in the American west and northwest.  She gave this collection to Colgate in the 1950’s.  The set consists of 20 encyclopedia volumes, all on display, along with 20 portfolio volumes of larger photogravures.  A selection of these larger images is currently on display at the Picker Gallery.