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


 

A Home Away From Home

A Home Away From Home

View the Home Away from Home Exhibit

We Are ISU: Snapshots of Student Life Online Exhibit

We Are ISU: Snapshots of Student Life

View the We are ISU Exhibit

Screen shot of Ada Hayden web page

Activist Agriculture: Farm protest in Iowa, 1929 - 1969

View the Activist Argriculture Exhibit

Special Projects


 

2019 4-H Youth Conference

2019 4-H Youth Conference

View the 2019 4-H Youth Conference Exhibit

LGBT+ Student Life at Iowa State University: 1970-1999

LGBT+ Student Life at Iowa State University: 1970-1999

View the LGBT+ Exhibit

Women's experience at Iowa State from 1960-1979

Women’s Experience at Iowa State from 1960-1979

View the Women's Experience Exhibit

All Exhibits


2019 4-H Youth Conference

2019 4-H Youth Conference

View the 2019 4-H Youth Conference Exhibit

Screen shot of Ada Hayden web page

Activist Agriculture: Farm protest in Iowa, 1929 - 1969

View the Activist Argriculture Exhibit

Screen shot of Ada Hayden web page

Botanist, Basketball Player, and Budding Conservationist: Ada Hayden's Student Years at Iowa State

View the Ada Hayden Student Years Exhibit

Christian Petersen: Artist and Teacher

Christian Petersen: Artist and Teacher

View the Christian Petersen Exhibit


Descartes Pascal Glass Plate Negative Collection: A Digitization Project

Descartes Pascal Glass Plate Negative Collection: A Digitization Project

View the Descartes Pascal Exhibit

Diamond Reflections: Iowa State's Baseball Tradition, 1892-2001

Diamond Reflections: Iowa State's Baseball Tradition, 1892-2001

View the ISU Baseball Exhibit

2001 version (Internet Archive)

Fifty Years of Cy, Our Iowa State Mascot

Fifty Years of Cy, Our Iowa State Mascot

View the 50 years of Cy Exhibit

2004 version (Internet Archive)



Iowa State Parks

Iowa State Parks 2017

View the Iowa State Parks Exhibit

Iowa State University Sesquicentennial Exhibit: 1858-2008, 150 Years of Excellence

Iowa State University Sesquicentennial Exhibit: 1858-2008, 150 Years of Excellence

View the ISU Sesquicentennial Exhibit

2007 version of "Iowa State University Sesquicentennial..." (Internet Archive)

John Vincent Atanasoff

John Vincent Atanasoff

View the John Vincent Atanasoff Exhibit

Visit the Historical Exhibit (currently unavailable)

revised 2005 version of "John Vincent Atanasoff" (Internet Archive)

Let's Go State! Cyclone Artifacts and Memorabilia from the 20th Century

Let's Go State! Cyclone Artifacts and Memorabilia from the 20th Century

View the Cyclone Artifacts and Memorabilia Exhibit

1999/revised 2005 version (Internet Archive)



Reflections on ISU Extension

Reflections on ISU Extension

View the ISU Extension Exhibit

Ringing in the Hearts of All: Centennial Celebration of the ISU Campanile

Ringing in the Hearts of All: Centennial Celebration of the ISU Campanile

View the ISU Campanile Exhibit

1999 version (Internet Archive)


The Three Founders of Botany: Images of Rare Works from Special Collections

The Three Founders of Botany: Images of Rare Works from Special Collections

View the Three Founders of Botany Exhibit

2013 version of "The Three Founders of Botany..." (Internet Archive)

...The Times They Are A-Changing

"...The Times They Are A-Changing": Political Protests--Iowa State University--May 1970

View the ISU Political Protests Exhibit

2002/revised 2005 version (Internet Archive)

Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest: The Impact of Women Nutritionists

Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest: The Impact of Women Nutritionists

 View the Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest Exhibit

1998 version (Internet Archive)


VEISHEA: Iowa State's Rite of Spring

VEISHEA: Iowa State's Rite of Spring

View the VEISHEA Exhibit

2010 version (Internet Archive)

Visions of Scientific Beauty: Selected Botanical and Butterfly Images from Rare Book Collections

Visions of Scientific Beauty: Selected Botanical and Butterfly Images from Rare Book Collections

View the Botanical and Butterfly Images Exhibit

2003 version (Internet Archive)

We Are ISU: Snapshots of Student Life Online Exhibit

We Are ISU: Snapshots of Student Life

View the We are ISU Exhibit