Browse Exhibits (7 total)
"A Long, Troublesome, and Dangerous Passage" from England to India
The following exhibition catalogues chaplain Edward Terry's voyage from England to India in the 17th century. It does not document every encounter on his journey, but instead highlights a number of encounters that give readers a glimpse into the life and times of a 17th-century Englishman. The entire journey of Edward Terry can be found in A voyage to East-India: Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader, located in the James Ford Bell Library, item number: 1655 Te
*We are located on Mnisóta Makhóčhe, the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakhóta Oyáte. The University Libraries acknowledges that the United States government failed to uphold the 1805, 1837, and 1851 treaties with the Dakhóta nation, which made possible the founding of our university through the Morrill Land Grant Act.
The James Ford Bell Library, through its exhibitions in the Bell Room Gallery, and through the management of its collection, is dedicated to giving voice to and sharing the stories of those who were marginalized, oppressed, enslaved, and underrepresented within the premodern narratives in our collection.
Captain Cook's Voyages of Discovery
Captain James Cook was the most prominent explorer of the late 18th century, and one of the greatest explorers of all time. His three famous voyages of discovery to the Pacific Ocean made great contributions to Western knowledge of the region, and changed the course of history.
This exhibit looks at the cultural and scientific discoveries of Cook’s voyages as illustrated by images from the collections of the Bell Library.
Exploring the Historic Mississippi River
This exhibit examines maps and drawings of the Mississippi River and its various cultures, focusing on several of the most important explorations in the period of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans through the 19th century.
Mary Read and Anne Bonny: Two of England's Most Notorious Pirates
Two of England's most notorious pirates happened to be women. This is their astonishing, swashbuckling, adventure-filled story.
This exhibit presented by the James Ford Bell Library.
Nagasaki Harbor, 1741: Navigating the Many Dimensions of a Map
![Chinese, Dutch and Japanese ships in harbor from [Manuscript map of Nagasaki, its harbor and surrounding region]. ca. 1741-65.](https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/files/square_thumbnails/857348fe53eefd52973e3be07b181b00.jpg)
Within the James Ford Bell Library rests folded within a thin, square wooden box sits; though the box is small, it once held a colorful, detailed cartographic depiction of a bird's-eye view of Nagasaki Harbor in the middle of the eighteenth century. This is the story of that map.
The Correct Way to Sail from Lisbon to Calicut
From Lisbon to Calicut was translated by Alvin E. Prottengeier, with commentary and notes by John Parker, curator of the James Ford Bell Library from 1953 until his retirement in 1991. It was published in 1956 by the University of Minnesota Press; the copyright is held by the University of Minnesota.
Trade and Commerce in 17th-Century England: Proclamations
The James Ford Bell Library is home to a collection of several printed broadsides from 17th century England representing brief but critical moments that shaped many of the trade and commercial policies that influenced England’s role in the global economy and political sphere through the 17th and 18th centuries.