Milner Library Special Collections

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A visual spectacle to behold, ISU Milner Library's Special Collections houses the Circus & Allied Arts, Children’s Literature & Historical Textbooks, Lincoln, and Rare Book collections. 201 N. School Street, Normal, Illinois 61761 bit.ly/m/MilnerLibSPC

Video montage of still images shows a selfie of two women in front of a finished exhibit display; a display case with a green, sequined spaceman costume and helmet with a round, mirrored antenna and a tiger costume; programs open to an aerial view of the spectacle show and to the front cover showing rocket ship and performers; and closeup views of costume pieces.
Print showing a scene with a tree-lined walkway leading up the hill to a monumental building façade. Fireworks stream from behind the building. In the foreground figures in another building drop banners from the windows. Crowds gathered or arriving fill grandstand seating areas and stand in the streets. Horse-drawn carriages arrive with aristocratic figures while people on the streets run, point, and gesture.
Watercolor painting showing a woman in a gold and pink gown with white puffed sleeves and an undershirt with a high collar. The woman's hair is pinned up with a pink headband holding it back. The gown pools on the floor at the back. There is a correction to the painting adhered as a piece of paper with a portion of the design that runs across the shoulder and chest portion of the dress. The label on this watercolor painting reads Elda - 1er [first] Costume a' après le manuscrit de Louise de Savoie.
Book page showing scenes from a dance of death, dance macabre. The scene appears in a border around the prayers occupying the center of the page. Skeletons laid flat on tombs and piles of human bones alongside shovels join two figures of death, represented as animated skeletons, leading away a woman labeled as “The Creepie” and the “The Poore Woman.” Death touches each woman, lifting her or holding her hand as it leads her away.
Flyer with a round headshot photo at the top showing a speaker wearing glasses and red lipstick while looking at the camera. The graphic in the center of the flyer shows a collage of a sepia-toned historical photo of a group of performers wearing sequined jackets in front of a more modern and color-saturated photo of a red and white tent against a bright blue sky. A descriptive paragraph about the subject of the advertised talk appears below the image.
1920s photos of people on car trips. In various images they change a flat tire, go to the beach, sit in cars with the tops down, and have picnics with friends.
Tabby cat lying on its side on a brown carpet while staring into the camera.
Large octopus on shore with a tentacle wrapped around the arm of a man in a suit. A ship is visible in the distance.
Arthur Rackham illustration from the Wind in the Willows showing a badger dressed in shoes and a long velvet coat talking to two rabbits with heads sticking out from their burrows.
Exhibit display case with books showing children's stories and exhibit labels.
Photograph of a lecturer at a podium speaking into a microphone.
Photograph of a lecturer at a podium gesturing with arms up to emphasize a point.
Handwritten documents and typed transcripts of the text in those documents.
Photo of a woman standing at a podium next to a screen showing a PowerPoint slide. The slide shows the home page of Scholarly Digital Storytelling.org, and the web address of the same name.
Photo of a woman wearing glasses standing at a podium with hands raised as she gestures for emphasis while speaking.
A woman in a yellow sweater and pink shirt stands behind a mannequin adjusting the collar on a green velvet costume with beads and sequins.
Two women dress a mannequin in a green circus costume with sequins, beads, and a high collar. The woman in a yellow sweater sits on the floor adjusting the bottom of the tunic will the woman in a green sweater reaches forward to assist.
3 images showing a map and exhibit pages made using the Omeka digital content platform. A purple box in the center reads Intro to Omeka.
Collage of data visualizations and binary code, cropped and overlapping.
Collage of an ambrotype portrait photograph of a seated woman and two views of different pages of a handwritten diary.
Collage of prints, ferns, a circus poster, diary, and ambrotype photograph of a woman.
Print showing three columns that contain agricultural, farming, and construction tools, including a beehive, shovels, hoes, saws, ropes, yokes, wheels, baskets, axes, scythes, weights, and pitchforks.
Watercolor of a cabaret dancer on the page of a book
Short clips showing people at workshops, software and code, and digital projects such as interactive maps and letters next to typed transcripts on a computer screen.
Video shows clips of an open book with various flowers pressed between the pages.
A woman in a library pulls open drawers, removes books from shelves, hangs up a tote bag, and fans out promotional bookmarks.