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Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration

Featured Images on the Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration

Images of Special Collections materials are displayed on the exterior of the Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration. Photo by James Byard/Washington University

The Newman Tower of Collections and Exploration spans four John M. Olin Library floors. The tower’s exterior features several images of materials in the WashU Libraries’ Special Collections.

Exterior Images on Level 3 of the Tower

1. Illustration for The Tunnel, William H. Gass, undated, Manuscript Collections

2. The Avengers #251, 1985, from Dowd Illustration Research Archive, The Center for the Humanities Comics Collection

3. Student Life, 1880, University Archives

4. Blaeu Atlas Maior, 1665, Rare Book Collections

5. Breviary leaf, 1490-1500, Rare Book Collections

6. “Honk!” from Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson, Dowd Illustration Research Archive

7. Ribbon Map of the Father of the Waters, published in 1866, Rare Book Collections

8. Billie Holiday illustration for the album God Bless the Child, by Cliff Condak, 1972, Cliff Condak Collection, Dowd Illustration Research Archive

9. Photo from the Russell Sturgis Photograph Collection, University Archives

10. Book of Hours, George N. Meissner Collection, Rare Book Collections

11. Ship of Fools, Sebastian Brant, 1509, Rare Book Collections

Exterior Images on Level 1 of the Tower

12. Ordo vniversi et hvmanarvm scientiarvm prima monvmenta, 1591, Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection, Rare Book Collections

13. Book of Hours, George N. Meissner Collection, Rare Book Collections

14. Daredevil #214, Dowd Illustration Research Archive

15. Declaration of Independence broadside, 1776, Rare Book Collections

16. Books Wanted, Charles Buckles Falls, 1918,Louis and Jodi Atkin Family Collection, Dowd Illustration Research Archive

17. Student protests in downtown St. Louis, 1969, University Archives

18. Washington University in St. Louis Commencement, 1998, University Archives

19. Ribbon Map of the Father of the Waters, published in 1866, Rare Book Collections

20. Book of Hours, George N. Meissner Collection, Rare Book Collections

21. Ridgley Library, Washington University in St. Louis, circa 1905, University Archives

22. J.S. Bach Manuscript BWV 747, Gaylord Music Library Special Collections

23. Year of the Monkey, by Seymour Chwast, 2004, Dowd Illustration Research Archive