Date: 6/4/08
Contact: Eric Jome
Photographic prints and artifacts from explorer and geographer John Wesley Powell’s 19th century expeditions in the American West are currently on display at Illinois State University’s Milner Library. The displays, on all six floors of the library, are free and open to the public.
Powell, a Civil War veteran and Illinois State Normal University’s first professor of geology, explored the Colorado and Green Rivers and the Grand Canyon in 1871-72. Displays in Milner Library contain prints of photos taken by J.K. Hillers, the legendary American photographer who accompanied Powell on the expedition. Native American artifacts collected by Powell, letters, maps, and monographs are also included in the collection.
Items on display are on loan from the Illinois State University Archives, Milner Library’s Special Collections area, the David Davis Mansion, Illinois State’s Department of Geography-Geology and from the personal collection of Geography-Geology Professor Emeritus Robert C. Corbett.
