Space: Exploring the Final Frontier in the Archives

Creator

Leigh McWhite
Christina Streeter

Streaming Media

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Creation Date

1-2020

Description

The exhibit “Space: Exploring the Final Frontier in the Archives” features cases with items that cover a wide array of topics:

• rare astronomy books from the 18^th and 19^th centuries
• Astronomy Department at UM
• handwritten accounts of 19^th century astronomical observations by UM faculty and students
• music with space themes
• Primitive artist Howard Finster’s space visions
• UFO sightings in Pascagoula in 1973
• science fiction
• U.S. space program

Dates: January 2020 and extended through November 2021 due to the pandemic closures in most of 2020 Location: Archives & Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library with one additional case on view in the Science Library and another on the second floor of the J.D. Williams Library

Relational Format

exhibit