Lewis & Clark College Special Collections is proud to host the final exhibition of a poetry broadside collection assembled by the Friends of William Stafford. The exhibit runs June 5 - July 15 in Hoffman Gallery. Gallery Hours are Thursday 4-8 pm and Saturday/Sunday 12-4 pm. This is the first of a series of events to celebrate the recent gift of the William Stafford Archives to the College from the Stafford Family. Featured printers and publishers include Karla Elling of Mummy Mountain Press, Sandy Tilcock of lone goose press, John Laursen of Press-22, Carlos Reyes of Trask House Book, Prescott Street Press, and Wang Hui-Ming.

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From August through December, 2006, the Aubrey Watzek Library will be showing "The Literature of the Lewis & Clark Expedition," an exhibit that draws from the extensive collection of books, maps, manuscripts, newspapers and literary materials on the expedition at Lewis & Clark College. The exhibit features sixty rare items from the college's collection of expedition-related printed material and is composed of twelve display cases plus a number of framed wall pieces. Highlights include volumes from Lewis and Clark's travelling library, early newspapers and government publications reporting on the expedition, early foreign language editions of Patrick Gass's journal, and a copy of the 1814 Biddle-Allen edition of Lewis and Clark's journals in original boards. This will be the final venue for this exhibit, which has been traveling around the country since the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Bicentennial in 2003. It has been displayed at Monticello; the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; the Louisville Free Public Library; The Boston Athenaeum; the Westfield Memorial Library, Westfield, New Jersey; Fort Mandan; Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society; Denver Public Library; Seattle Public Library; Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton, Oregon; and Idaho State Historical Society.

An exhibit of the works of John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me, is on display in the Library until June. A lecture on Griffin by Jerry Harp, curator of the exhibit, will be given on April 6th at 7:00 pm in Watzek Library. A collection of photographs, political cartoons, and other graphic images depicting the history of the IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, is displayed on the walls near Special Collections in Watzek Library. The exhibit is sponsored by Norm Diamond of the College’s Political Economy Program and will be up through May.

The Library has established a collection of works on gender studies within its Special Collections to honor the work of faculty member, Jean Ward, who founded the Gender Studies Symposium and the Gender Studies Program here at Lewis & Clark. The Jean Ward Collection on Gender Studies currently consists of 37 items, many published in the 19th century. The initial donated items are on display in Watzek Library in the cases near Special Collections.