Musselman Library Exhibits

What are elevator wraps?  Elevator wraps are graphic images that adhere to the outside (and sometimes the inside) of elevator doors.  They are also referred to as “elevator door skins.”  Sometimes the wraps are in the form of an advertisement.

Our new Musselman Library elevator wraps are custom made—all the images, from the lower level to the fourth level, are from our own Special Collections & College Archives.  Here is what you will see on each floor:

Fourth Level Elevator Wrap

Paradise Lost: a Poem, in Twelve Books by John Milton, 1808
Gift of Wilton C. Dinges

Third Level Elevator Wrap

"The Superb Lily," hand colored and color printed mezzotint plate from The Temple of Flora by Robert Thornton, 1799
Gift of Geoffrey Jackson, Class of 1991

Second Level Elevator Wrap

"The Great Wave off Kanagawa," woodblock print from the View of Mount Fuji series by Hokusai Katsushika, ca. 1829-1833
From the estate of Professor Frank Kramer, Class of 1914

Main Level Elevator Wrap

"The Carolina Parrot," chromolithographic print from Birds of America by John James Audubon, Bien edition, 1860
Gift of Geoffrey Jackson, Class of 1991

Lower Level Elevator Wrap

Pair of jade temple altar cranes from China, ca.1661-1722
Gift of Mildred Tabor Keally

Library Stairwell

This stairwell exhibit displays some of the photographs taken by Dan Gilbert, an ethics and management professor at Gettysburg College from 1999-2014, who roamed the campus with his beloved 35mm Canon AE-1 camera.  Dan continues to photograph his environment which is now Claremont, California, where it rains only four months each year.  Maples cannot thrive in southern California!

Through Our Eyes is an exhibition made up of photographs taken by refugee children who are forced to live in the hotspot of Samos, Greece. It shows us the daily life of refugee people from the inside of the camp. We can see their daily struggles, not like the pictures made by photographers or journalists, but from a different point of view. We can see their daily life through their own eyes. The photos were taken by Mazí students; Mazí is a youth center run by the Still I Rise NGO in Samos.

Austin Stiegemeier, Assistant Professor of Art & Art History, arranged to bring this exhibit to the Gettysburg College campus in the spring of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic made this impossible. However, partnering with Musselman Library and project creator Nicoletta Novara, a digital version of the exhibition has been created and is available at https://astiegem.sites.gettysburg.edu/through-our-eyes/.

Library Main Level

Humans have been gazing upon the stars since ancient times. Musselman Library’s Stargazing exhibit takes you from Mayan astronomers in 3114 BCE, to Gettysburg College’s first observatory and guest registry of 1874, to the present day selection of Special Collections “heavenly” rare books, many formerly in the collection of Laurence Marschall, Professor of Physics, Emeritus. The Stargazing exhibit, located in five display cases on the main level by the apse, will be available to view now through the end of the spring 2021 semester.

Library Apse, Main Level

This photography exhibit features a collection of images taken by Stephen Warner, Class of 1968, during the Vietnam War. The photographs and text on display are select reproductions from a collection of photographs, negatives, notebooks, diaries, and letters created by Warner. They were bequeathed to Gettysburg College by Warner, upon his death in Vietnam in 1971.