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Online Exhibitions



[This announcement has been cross-posted to several lists.  Please forgive duplicate receipts.]
 
 
 
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)