Browse Exhibits · Duke University Library Exhibits

Our history, our voice: Latinx at Duke // Nuestra historia, nuestra voz: Latinas/os/es/x en Duke

OUR HISTORY, OUR VOICE: LATINX AT DUKE // NUESTRA HISTORIA, NUESTRA VOZ: LATINAS/OS/ES/X EN DUKE

JANUARY 10, 2022 – MAY 29, 2022
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC

"To Stand by the Side of Freedom" - Abraham Lincoln and 19th Century America

Selections from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection

Engraving by Clemens Kohl; Sick Person laying in bed.

Vaccination: 300 Years of Debate

October 28,2019 - March 16,2020
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

This online exhibit includes items originally on display in 2019 that predate the COVID-19 pandemic and more current vaccine debates.

DANTE & HIS AFTERLIVES: "To see the stars again..."

June 25, 2021 – December 12, 2021

The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Celebrating Thirty Years of East Asian Collections

November 16, 2021 - April 14, 2022
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

COMIC BOOK CULTURES

March 3, 2005 - May 16, 2005
Perkins Library Lobby Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Tobaccoland

May 31, 2022 – January 28, 2023
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

The Power of Refined Beauty: Photographing Society Women for Pond's, 1920s-1950s

April 5, 2010 – August 22, 2010

Special Collections Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Maxwell Did It!: Photographing the Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1920s-1950s

January 11, 2006 - March 26, 2006

Special Collections Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Illustrating the Hebrew Bible

April 13, 2010 - July 31, 2010

Perkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

I Take Up My Pen: 19th Century British Women Writers

December 15, 2009 – February 21, 2010

Perkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Abusing Power: Satirical Journals from the Special Collections Library

February 23, 2010 – April 11, 2010

Perkins Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Seeing the Invisible: 50 Years of Macromolecular Visualization

SEEING THE INVISIBLE

50 Years of Macromolecular Visualization

February 7, 2020 – July 21, 2020
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC

Early Studies in Parapsychology at Duke

Early Studies in Parapsychology at Duke

November 16, 2021 – April 14, 2022
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

FOREVER HUMBOLDT!!

October 29, 2019 – June 01, 2020

Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs, 1910-1919

Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs, 1910–1919
Northern India and the North-West Frontier Province

May 7 – August 6, 2012

Photography Gallery
Perkins Library
Duke University

British photographer Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1873) lived in the North-West Frontier Province of British India for over fifty years and travelled extensively throughout the region photographing much of northern India and Central Asia. Holmes took many of the detailed landscapes and topographical photographs in this exhibit when he accompanied the British colonial army during the Third Afghan War in 1919.

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Nation on the Move - the Puerto Rican Diaspora: Photographs by Frank Espada, 1963-1990

Nation on the Move — the Puerto Rican Diaspora Photographs by Frank Espada, 1963–1990

January 16 – April 22, 2012

Special Collections Gallery
Perkins Library
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Forty years after the Farm Security Administration photographic survey of America, Frank Espada traveled from New England to the Pacific Islands photographing the Puerto Rican diaspora. Espada’s photographs document the harsh living and working conditions Puerto Rican migrants endured in the 1970s and 80s as well as their successes in building strong social-cultural-political organizations to improve their quality of life.

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.

Iraq Perspectives: Photographs by Benjamin Lowy

October 24 – December 11, 2011

Rubenstein Library Gallery
Perkins Library
Duke University Libraries
Durham, North Carolina

Looking for a previous version of this exhibit? Use the Internet Archive's stored version of the page.