Online Exhibits
The Special Collections and University Archives department launched the library’s digital exhibits program in 1998 with “Today’s Seeds for Tomorrow’s Harvest.” Since then, the library has developed digital exhibits that help to tell the stories found within the library’s unique, rare, and uncommon materials.
Some of these exhibits are nearly 20 years old. As time passes, websites decay. All of the historical exhibits below include a link to the preserved version of the website in the university archives’ web archives. Be patient, links to web.archive.org are particularily slow to load.
Featured Exhibits
Special Projects
All Exhibits
Botanist, Basketball Player, and Budding Conservationist: Ada Hayden's Student Years at Iowa State
Diamond Reflections: Iowa State's Baseball Tradition, 1892-2001
From Prairie Sod to Campus Cornerstones: Building Our Campus History
Inspiring Students to Become Their Best: The Legacy of George Washington Carver
Iowa State University Sesquicentennial Exhibit: 1858-2008, 150 Years of Excellence
John Vincent Atanasoff
Visit the Historical Exhibit (currently unavailable)
Let's Go State! Cyclone Artifacts and Memorabilia from the 20th Century
Ringing in the Hearts of All: Centennial Celebration of the ISU Campanile
The Road I Grew Up On: A Rural History Project
The Three Founders of Botany: Images of Rare Works from Special Collections
2013 version (Internet Archive)
"...The Times They Are A-Changing": Political Protests--Iowa State University--May 1970
Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest: The Impact of Women Nutritionists
Twentieth Century Women of Iowa State
