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University of Illinois Main Library, courtesy of Killivalavan Solai, Wikimedia Commons
  • RBML Main Website
  • Exhibits
  • The Viceroyalty of Peru
    • Encounter/Clash of Empires
    • Early Empire, Exploration, and Conquest
    • Law, Religion, and Economy
    • Gazing at the Spanish Viceroyalty from Afar
    • Letters from the Conde de Montemar Collection
    • Glossary
  • Building a Library
    • Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani, Collector
    • Sciences
    • Social Life and Customs
    • Genealogy and Heraldry
    • The Arts
    • Archivio Cavagna Sangiuliani in Zelada
  • In Search of Lost Time
    • Religious Chronologics
    • Fossils and the Record of Previous Worlds
    • History in the Layers of the Earth
    • Maps and Cross-Sections
    • Earth’s Chronology from “Geotheory”
    • Radioactivity and the Science of Geochronology
  • Chez La Veuve
    • Education
    • Religion and Moral Instruction
    • Women as Skilled Printers
    • Popular Literature
    • Rabble Rousers
  • Starkiller to Skywalker
    • Script Context
    • Word Count Comparison
    • Dialogue Adjustments
    • Deleted and Rearranged Scenes
    • Han and Greedo
    • Other Changes
    • Bibliography for the Making of Star Wars
  • Once Upon a Time
    • American Indian Legends
    • Andersen's Fairy Tales and Legends
    • The Arabian Nights Entertainments
    • A Story, A Story: An African Tale
    • East of the Sun and West of the Moon
    • Indian Fairy Tales
    • Kinder- und Hausmärchen
    • Little Red Riding Hood
    • Perrault's Fairy Tales
    • Princess Splendor: The Wood Cutter's Daughter
    • Skazki: Tales and Legends of Old Russia
    • Sources and Fairy Tale Resources
  • Divine Madness
    • Heavenly Bodies
    • Beyond Frontiers
    • A Gram of Truth
    • Sailing with Sea Monsters
    • The Pursuit of More
    • Fantastic Creatures
  • Making Mr. Darcy
    • The Art of Dress
    • First Editions and Contemporary Works
    • Education and Occupation
    • Sports
    • Politics, Satire, and the Prince Regent
    • Scandal, Sex, and Romance
  • Crymes and Rhymes
    • The Broadside Ballad
    • Criminal Celebrities
    • More Bloody Versicles
  • Geographies of Risk: An Exhibition of Early Modern Conceptions and Representations of Risk
    • Gender and Risk
    • Politics And Risk
    • Privacy and Risk
    • Exploration and Risk
    • Managing Natural Risk
  • Release the Stars: Plato's Timaeus in the Renaissance
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • We are each other's harvest: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
    • Annie Allen
    • Ms. Gwendolyn 'Pulitzer' Brooks
    • Black Literary History
    • Brooks Anthologized
    • Black Bibliography
    • Brooks in Art

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The collage featured on the RBML digital exhibit site features items from past exhibits held in RBML. For more about past exhibits, see the Legacy Exhibitions page on the RBML main website.

List of Items

The Protean Figure and Metamorphic Costumes

From Making Mr. Darcy

Almagestum Novum

From Divine Madness

Portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks, circa 1980s

From Matter in the Margins: Gwendolyn Brooks at 100

Portrait of H. G. Wells, circa 1891-2

From H.G. Wells Time Traveler

Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani's Monogram

From Building a Library: The Cavagna Sangiuliani Collection at Illinois

The Time Machine and the Man Who Could Work Miracles, 1953

From H.G. Wells Time Traveler

The Time Machine, 1963

From H.G. Wells Time Traveler

Sommario delle vite de' duchi di Milano

From Building a Library: The Cavagna Sangiuliani Collection at Illinois

Portrait of Proust from A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

From Marcel Proust: Writing Without End

Sadducismus triumphatus

From Fire Burne & Cauldron Bubble: Witchcraft at the Dawn of Modernity