Message-Id: <mailto:199506210132.SAA33279@listserv.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:28:34 -0900 From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: Images of the Southwest new exhibits To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Over the past month, the U of Arizona Library has added three new exhibits to our library's Images of the Southwest Exhibits. If you're interested, please check them out. I would appreciate comments from you via e-mail at mailto:sglogoff@bird.library.arizona.edu (rather than replying to IMAGELIB) or use the feedback form included in most of the exhibits.
The new exhibits in Images of the Southwest are:
Southern Arizona Folk Arts, which includes 57 images from color slides and corresponding text written by the UA Library's folklorist, Dr. James S. Griffith. It features sections on Quilts, Easter Eggs (and Paper and Wood) from Europe, Cowboy and Western Border Art, Chicano Murals in Tucson, Low Riders, and Mexican-American Paperwork.
The Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives, which contains three related exhibits. The first is Jewish Images of the Southwest which documents the experiences of the pioneer Jews who settled in Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas during the mid-nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. The second exhibit is Synagogues of the Southwest. Synagogues are represented in this exhibit from throughout the Southwest, extending from El Paso, Texas, to the San Diego, California area. These synagogues, showing a variety of diverse architectures, served as focal points for Jewish communities and preserved sacred religious objects. Contemporary synagogue architecture shows how traditions are expressed in the Southwest today. Third is an online version of the Bloom Archives quarterly newsletter. These exhibits include over 200 images and will continue to grow as more images are created from the Archives' collections.
Another new exhibit is Maps of the Pimeria: Early Cartography of the Southwest from the University of Arizona Library Map Collection. This exhibit is taken from slides of our maps librarian, Jack Mount, who wrote the accompanying text. It illustrates and describes a selection of original rare and historic maps chosen from the Library's Map Collection. They portray a region of New Spain once called Pimeria and chronicle four centuries of mapping from the earliest map of the region in the collection, a 1556 view of North and South America, up to the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 when Pimeria Alta--or southern Arizona--was acquired by the United States from Mexico.
We have also updated an earlier exhibit, Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert, by changing its linearly designed homepage to an image-map of the Sonoran desert with clickable icons where the missions are located.
You may also be interested in two other U. A. Library exhibits that you are linked to the Images homepage: University of Arizona Photographic History, and Highlights from the Collections of the Center for Creative Photography.
Regards, Stuart
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