The Duane G. Meyer Library is hosting two traveling exhibits from the Missouri State Archives this semester. The first, Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collection of the Missouri State Archives, is located on the Lower Level of the library. Mapping Missouri features reproductions of over 100 maps from the State Archives, some of which have never been shown before this display. The images range from a land survey map made by Antoine Soulard in St. Louis from 1796-1806 to the computer generated Lewis and Clark maps created by Jim Harlan and the University of Missouri's Geographic Resources Center in 2002. The exhibit explores the history of cartography in Missouri and the role maps have played in our everyday lives.
Also on display is Ozark Light: The Photographs of Charles Elliott Gill. Located on the Third Level of Meyer Library, Ozark Light features images from the Gill Collection housed in the Missouri State Archives. Gill was an amateur photographer who spent decades documenting life in the upper Ozarks with his 1906 Seroco extended view camera.
The exhibits are viewable during regular library hours. Hours for Meyer Library are at http://library.missouristate.edu/hours/index.htm. For more information on Mapping Missouri, call the Maps Department at 417-836-4534. For more on Ozark Light, call Special Collections at 417-836-5428. Both exhibits continue through December 11, 2009.
