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> From: Wood, Thomas [SMTP:Wood.Thomas@UIS.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 5:29 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Exhibiting controversial materials
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> My predecessor here (ca. 1985) put on a small exhibit of Walt Whitman
> material. One of the items exhibited was a 1913 illustrated edition of
> Leaves of Grass, featuring a drawing of two nude young men. This
> apparently
> caused so much consternation that the archives' display case was
> permanently
> banished from its location near the library's circulation desk to the
> archives itself.
>
> It's odd that artistic nudity that was acceptable in 1913 was deemed
> offensive in 1985. Tempora mutantur.
>
> Thomas J. Wood
> Archivist
> Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
> University of Illinois at Springfield
> P.O. Box 19243
> Springfield IL 62794-9243
> 217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/~lib-arch
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