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The Mandeville Special Collections Library at the
University of California, San Diego, is pleased to announce the publication of
two new online exhibitions:
Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political
Cartoons (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm)
displays 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) in the
newspaper PM during the years 1941-43. The cartoons include
caricatures of most of the world's leaders at that time, and many of them were
drawn to encourage support of the war and fundraising efforts such as the War
Savings Bonds & Stamps program. Richard Minear, author of Dr.
Seuss Goes to War, which published 200 of the cartoons included in the
exhibit, has written the introduction to the exhibition. The cartoons are
arranged chronologically and grouped by month. (Topical access will
be added to the site during this summer.)
Weathering the Weather: The Origins of
Atmospheric Science (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/weather/index.htm)
is an exhibit of fifty-three early and important works on meteorology
documenting the origins of atmospheric science. The works are from the
collection of well-known bibliophile Kenneth E. Hill. Hill's interest
in meteorology dates from his service years when he was assigned aboard the
Yorktown as a navigator. The Navy sent him to the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography for additional training under the guidance of the famed ocean
scientists Walter Munk and H.U. Sverdrup. The exhibition is indexed by
author's name.
Other MSCL online exhibitions remain
available:
The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish
Civil War from UCSD's Southworth Collection (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/posters/index.html)
They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by
Spanish Children during the Spanish Civil War, circa 1938 (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html)
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