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The Marian holy card collection contains over 18,000 Catholic holy cards dating from circa 1675 through the present day. Materials in this collection depict the Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child, events in the life of Jesus and Mary, Marian titles, and Marian shrines.
This faculty-selected exhibit features rare and near-priceless first editions, manuscripts, galley proofs, papyri and illustrations spanning the scholarly spectrum from philosophy to physics. The items in this exhibit archive are part of the collection of Stuart Rose, a Dayton-area businessman who has assembled one of the most accomplished collections of its kind in private hands.
A collection of medieval manuscripts from the Marian Library and University Archives. The collection features full codices and individual leaves.
For almost a century (1912-2001), a church with a distinctive green dome could be seen high on a hill overlooking Cincinnati’s Mill Creek Valley. This distinctive edifice was part of a complex originally known as Our Lady of the Woods, later Convent of the Good Shepherd, and then Girls’ Town of America, that also included school buildings, industrial training facilities, and housing for nuns and resident girls.
The University photographs depict the lives and activities of the students, staff, and alumni of the University of Dayton and illustrate the functions of the University, including classroom instruction and laboratory research. The photographs date from the late 1890s to the present, documenting the evolution of St. Mary's Institute, a small, private grammar school for boys, into a well-known Catholic and Marianist institution of higher education and research. The school changed names several times between its founding in 1850 and 1920, when it was renamed the University of Dayton.
This gallery contains illustrations by the Italian artist Ezio Anichini. They appear on postcards, magazine covers, and other media, often depicting the Blessed Mother, Bible stories, and scenes from literature including Dante's Divine Comedy and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Anichini also produced illustrations commissioned by the Italian government.