ABOUT 

This website is meant to accompany the exhibitions on display on the 1st and 4th floors of the Biomedical Library, which are part of a Masters-level course in the Department of Information Studies.  It is entitled "Historiography of Graphics and Visual Culture," and offered during Winter Quarter 2019.  It is taught by Rose Roberto, PhD.  Russell Johnson, Curator of History and Special Collections assisted each student curator with installation. 
 

Each student in this class was assigned an exhibition case. Their job was to curate a topic by researching, designing, and selecting material from different collections in History & Special Collections for the Sciences (a component of UCLA Library Special Collections) to highlight their most interesting discoveries.

The titles of exhibitions and their curators are:  

* Cultivating Motherhood and the Rise of the Eugenics Movement by Claire Gordon 

* Bringing Up Baby: The Life of Infants Illustrated in Baby Books at the Turn of the 20th Century in America by Britany Valdez 

* Innovation and Erased Narratives by Selina Portera 

* Charles Darwin and the Viral Baby Photo by Wen Wen Hsu 

* The Bird Man and the American Woodsman: Scientific and Social Debate in Victorian Ornithological Illustrations by Megan Riley

Each case is accompanied by a brochure and a brief essay about the associated project.  Each of those brochures will be found on this website.