Using historical maps, books, objects, and textiles, Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014 tells the story of European Jesuits and women religious who arrived in America’s borderlands to serve indigenous and immigrant populations.
Resources Available
- Crossings and Dwellings: Loyola Library webpage and blog about the exhibition
- “Mapping Crossings and Dwellings:” Provides a first attempt at visually representing the movements and settlements of Jesuits and women’s congregations after the restorations
- “Exhibition At a Glance:” Images and artifacts from the exhibition
- Tumblr Blog: Image-focused live blog of the exhibition
- Exhibition Galleries
- Broadsides: Explores three historic broadsides related to the pres-suppression Jesuits on display in the Crossings and Dwellings exhibition
- Blaeu Globes: Focuses on globes created just a few years after the first Jesuit mission to the new world in 1609, the globes represent the world as the early Jesuit missionaries understood it.
- Pierre Jean de Smet Correspondence: Explores correspondence from Jesuit missionary in the Midwest in the 19th c., includes map and timeline visualizations
- Nicolas Point Exhibit: Guided audio tour, including commentary and text descriptions of sketches by Jesuit missionary to Salish (Flathead), Blackfeet, and Coeur d’Alene peoples
- St. Ignatius College Library Provenance Project: Reconstruction of 19th-century Jesuit library now held by Loyola University
- John Padberg Keynote on the Suppression and Restoration of Jesuits: Recording of keynote address on youtube
- “Advanced Digital Methods: Loyola Library Project:” Graduate-level syllabus related to designing the project
Loyola University Museum of Art, Loyola University Libraries
