The Old Ballgame: Baseball in American Life
April 17-June 30

Drawing on the major collection of Paul Rogers, SMU Professor of Law and baseball historian, and supplemented by materials from the DeGolyer collections, we will display books, programs, periodicals, photographs, prints, and memorabilia that illustrate the development of baseball in all its forms, from sandlots to the big leagues, and that also comment on the game’s place in the American imagination.

The Eye of Genius: Photographs by Jack Kilby, Inventor of the microchip
July 12 to September 21, 2008 at the Meadows Museum

A quiet, unassuming man, Jack Kilby (1923-2005) had a creative bent that stretched from the invention of the microchip to the creation of photographs of great beauty. The year 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of Kilby’s invention, a year to celebrate and honor the man behind the genius. This exhibit at the Meadows Museum will highlight both Kilby’s photographs as well as documents and museum objects from the Jack Kilby and the Texas Instruments historical archives, at the DeGolyer Library.

From Log Cabin to White House: American Presidential Campaign Biographies
Fall 2008

From the days of the early republic to the present, American political campaigns have made good use of the printed word, and especially the biography, to shape the public’s image of the candidates. This exhibit will explore the relationship between authors, candidates, books, and the broad general audience to which they are directed. Materials will be drawn from the Harlan Crow Collection as well as the DeGolyer Library.

Image: Breck, Joseph. Boys playing baseball, [woodcut]. In The Young Florist; or Conversations on the Culture of Flowers and on Natural History. (Boston: Russell, Odiore & Co., 1833)
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