Date: October 20, 2025
All-day event
Location: Library, second floor

Come check out two new archival exhibits on the library’s second floor! The first, Hollins History in Objects: The Tiffany Clock, 1890, shows the history of a luxurious gift made by the Hollins faculty to college President Charles Lewis Cocke and his wife Suzanna on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Deadly Dosage: Poisonous Plants in Hollins’ Books explores danger in rare books and a student thesis from the library’s Special Collections. Deadly Dosage was created by Ari Carter (’27) during an internship in the Hollins Archives.

Antique books with botanical drawings in a display case. One black and white plant photograph and one modern book with a color photo of a plant with yellow flowers.