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Summer 2022 Exhibit: Medieval Portland Explores the Nuremberg Chronicle

June 9, 2022 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

The Liber chronicarum or Weltchronik of 1493, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, is a world history that is one of the most famous early printed books or incunabula. This summer, the PSU Library exhibit presents interpretations of leaves … Continue reading →

Winter 2022 Exhibit: The Art and Social Practice Archive

January 5, 2022 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

Loose Body: A Survey of Ephemera from the Art and Social Practice Archive Part of PSU Library Special Collections & University Archives, the Art and Social Practice Archive was founded in 2018 in collaboration with the PSU Art and … Continue reading →

Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies at Portland State

January 8, 2020 Exhibits

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Portland State’s Black Studies Department (BST) in 2020, Special Collections and University Archives will highlight materials from the department’s papers in a first floor exhibit. The Black Studies Department developed in September 1970 … Continue reading →

Athanasius Kircher and Other Curiosities from Special Collections

April 9, 2019 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

Welcome to Special Collections’ Spring 2019 exhibit: especially for bibliophiles! “Master of a Hundred Arts” Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was regarded as a great intellectual during his lifetime. With insatiable curiosity, access to the expansive knowledge networks of the Jesuit order, … Continue reading →

Autumn Exhibits: Special Collections and University Archives

November 7, 2018 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

What do a rare devotional text, published writing by Portland State students, and arguments aimed at convincing Oregonian voters have in common? The simple answer is that these are all examples of unique artifacts and collections held by Portland State … Continue reading →

Origins of Modern Middle East Studies: Scholarly and Travel Writing Before 1900

March 7, 2018 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

Middle East Studies in the West is informed by centuries of intellectual exchange which includes seminal works by Middle Eastern historians, language and cultural studies developed by European scholars, and popular travel writing, including works by women who toured Egypt, … Continue reading →

“Conservatism in a Revolutionary Era”

May 31, 2017 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

The latest Library exhibit, opening May 31, 2017, presents a less-examined side of political debates and demonstrations during the Vietnam War era. As United States military involvement in Vietnam escalated during the late 1960s, students at colleges and universities around the world … Continue reading →

Never Built: The Past Future of Portland State

January 10, 2017 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

An astronomical observatory on the roof of the Ondine? An elementary school on campus? A student-run television studio? These are just a few of the Portland State projects that campus planners and architects envisioned, designed, and drew… but never built. The … Continue reading →

Viking Yearbooks Digital Collection and Library Exhibit

October 12, 2016 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

Portland State University, founded as Vanport College in 1946, celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2016. This fall, University Archives presents the ultimate Portland State flashback: the complete collection of Viking yearbooks, from 1946 until 1995, can now be read online, searched, and downloaded … Continue reading →

Spring 2016 Exhibit: The Personal Is Political

April 22, 2016 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

PSU Library Special Collections’ spring exhibit features Portland politician and activist Gretchen Kafoury (1942-2015). Through a wide range of materials curated from Kafoury’s papers, the exhibit connects the passion she brought to the causes she fought for to each role she played in … Continue reading →

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