For immediate use
Exhibit displays UNC Library Treasures from A to Z
Exhibit is on display through April 17
(Chapel Hill, N.C. – Jan. 29, 2015) – From A (“activism”) to Z (“zombies”), the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is full of rare and sometimes surprising treasures.
More than 75 of those documents, books, images, and artifacts are now on view as part of “An Alphabet of Treasures: Special Collections from A to Z.” The free public exhibition opened this week in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room on the third floor of Wilson Library.
Some of the items in the exhibition have a special connection with North Carolina. For example, visitors will be able to see an elementary school composition book belonging to future author Thomas Wolfe (“You are capable of doing English work of the highest quality,” wrote his teacher); a poem by George Moses Horton, a slave in Chatham County who wrote verses for 19th-century UNC-Chapel Hill students; and a script and films cans for a 1960 episode of “The Andy Griffith Show,” starring one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s most beloved alums.
Other items reveal the global scope of UNC-Chapel Hill’s special collections. A 4,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet is among the earliest items in the UNC Library. Copies of “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung” (“known as the “Little Red Book”), Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” and a report on smallpox vaccines by Edward Jenner (the “father of immunology”) represent key moments in world history.
“Whether you have an hour or an afternoon, the A to Z exhibition lets you stop into Wilson Library and discover something wonderful,” said Rachel Reynolds, Coordinator of Special Collections Exhibits and Outreach.
“An Alphabet of Treasures” will be on view through April 17. Contact Wilson Library at (919) 962-3765 or wilsonlibrary@unc.edu for information and hours.
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For more information: http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/news/index.php/2015/01/an-alphabet-of-treasures-special-collections-from-a-to-z/
Library contact: Rachel Reynolds, (919) 962-0104, racrey@email.unc.edu