All Things Collected
Objects at Beloit College
1. Woman’s Head, 4th Century
Greek, Chersonese
Marble
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Helen Brace Emerson 10.279
2. Axe Head, Montana
Stone
Logan Museum of Anthropology, ED2002.2.57
3. Crinoid, Mississipian Period
Collected ca. 1940 from Le Grand, Iowa and prepared by Beane
Geological Collection, B.H. Beane Crinoid Collection
4. Two Frames with Labels identifying frame makers and gilders.
Wright Museum of Art
5. Half Scale Bustle Ensemble constructed by Mack Johnson in Advanced Costume Techniques. This dress follows a pattern from an 1880s bustle ensemble.
Neese Theatre Collection
6. Costume from In the Next Room constructed by Mack Johnson and designed by Shelbi Wilkin. The costume was for Mrs. Givings who was played by Sage Green. The dress is based off of various historical garments from the 1880s.
Neese Theatre Collection
7. (2) Wayang Kulit shadow puppets, c. 1800–1816
Bali, Indonesia
Hide, horn and gold leaf
Logan Museum of Anthropology ED2017.1.1
8. Get Behind the Movement, 1968
William Weege
Screenprint
Wright Museum of Art, Purchase 1969.1.3
9. Animal Locomotion, plate 157, 1887
Eadweard Muybridge
Collotype photograph
Wright Museum of Art, Purchase 2017.7.1
10. Boulder from a river pothole
Found in a glacial deposit in Springfield, MS
Looks to be composed of quartzite, which is metamorphic sandstone
Collected in 1938 by E.E. Lochridge (alum 1898)
Geological Collection
11. Gold beaded Edwardian pumps,
ca. 1900-1910
Neese Historic Costume Collection
12. Arsenic green gloves, 19th century
(encapsulated for safety!)
Logan Museum of Anthropology
13. (12) Tsuba (sword guard), 19th century
Japanese
Wright Museum of Art, Gifts of W.F.E. Gurley
14. Prayer Wheel, n.d.
Tibetan
Brass, Copper, and wood
Wright Museum of Art, EDC2017.7.2
15. Samovar
Russian
Brass
Collection of the Beloit College Library
16. Mola Panel
Panama
Cotton and synthetic fabric
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2003.1.23A
17. Teapot, ca. 1900
Japanese
Cloisonne and attached ivory handle
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Nathaniel and Lana Grey1993.5.27
18. Dog effigy vessel, n.d.
Colima ,West Mexico
Ceramic (earthenware)
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2003.1.1
19. Bilum Bag, n.d.
Papua New Guinea
Natural fibers
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2005.1.4
20. Portrait of Rollin D. Salisbury
(1858–1922),
Photograph
Salisbury: Beloit College class of 1881
Taught at BC 1882-91
Trustee BC 1921-22
Department of Geology, Beloit College
21. Fossil: fish fossil from Eocene
(Green River Formation)
Basket: Rumor has it it was used by Salisbury during fieldwork to collect
fossils.
Department of Geology, Beloit College
22. Tapestry weave textile (Gobelins technique), 17th c.
French or Flemish
Wright Museum of Art, Gift from the Carnegie Cooperation 1927.2.32
23. Embroidered textile, Eastern Mediterranean, 19th c.
Turkish
Wright Museum of Art, Gift from the Carnegie Cooperation 1927.2.50
24. Printed textile, 20th c.
Silk flat-weave, mechanically printed
Cotton
Wright Museum of Art, Gift from the Carnegie Cooperation 1927.2.59
25. Batik Fabric, 19th c.
Javanese
Cotton
Wright Museum of Art, Gift from the Carnegie Cooperation 1927.2.38
26. Black Edwardian Era Dress, ca. 1900-1910
Made with an outer layer of cotton polka dot net lace on a silk base layer with heavily beaded neckline and cuffs.
Neese Historic Costume Collection
27. Purple Silk Bustle Dress, ca. 1870s
Neese Historic Costume Collection
28. Miniature (portable) covered shrine, depicting 5 of the 7 Gods of Good Fortune
Japanese
Wood carving
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Minnie McIntyre Wallace 1947.23.1
29. Group of collected insects from IPM (Integrated Pest Management) at the Logan Museum of Anthropology
30. Three pairs of mid-century costume
jewelry earrings.
Neese Theatre Collection
31. Sarira Pagoda Scroll , n.d.
Japanese
Characters from sutra. Elephant is the vehicle of Fugen Bosatsu (Samantabhadra Bodhisattva)
Wright Museum of Art, Purchase 2019.8.1
32. Section of Drawer 8: Brachiopoda, Articulata, Spiriferda from the Geological Collection
33. Prussian Blue, Manganese Violet,
Cochineal; Pigment Collection, Chemistry Department
34. Azurite mineral Specimen
Geological Collection
35. Flute, n.d
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED 2002.1.22
36. Beaded Whimsy, n.d.
Iroquois
Logan Museum of Anthropology, ED2011.1.4
37. Double Comb, early 20th century
Chinese
Bamboo/Buffalo Horn
Wright Museum of Art
10.321
38. Mother of Pearl/Shell Snuff Bottle, 19th century, Chinese, 1992.15.64
Mother of Pearl/Shell, Tongzhi Period (1862–1873), Chinese, 1988.1.6
Wright Museum of Art
39. Abalone shell, from a marine snail
Mineralogy is aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate. Iridescent inside of
shell is Mother of Pearl (aka nacre), same material pearls are composed.
Modern in age
Geological Collection
40. Model, Zinc Blende Structure, Chemisty Department
41. Various portraits, Ambrotypes and
Daguerreotypes, ca. 1850s
Wright Museum of Art, 1985.3.43,
1985.3.47, 1985.3.26
42. 1938 International Exhibit of Paintings Carnegie Institute Pittsburg
Exhibition Catalog
Beloit College Archives
43. Holiday greeting to Helen Brace Emerson (Founder of Beloit's Art collection) from Chicago-based artist Bertha E. Jaques; includes small etching by Jaques
Beloit College Archives
44. Reproduction Mayan Codex
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2008.1.11
45. Czechoslovakian Book, 1550/1600
Incunabula
Ink, Paper, Leather
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of the Family of Chester Rabas 2000.7.1
46. Dolls with advanced plastic deterioration
Logan Museum of Anthropology
47. Biwa, n.d.
Japan (Masashiro Nakata)
Wood
Logan Museum of Anthropology, ED2010.5.7
48. Jar, n.d.
Jemez Pueblo
Ceramic
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2007.9.1
49. Cylindrical Vessel (Replica)
Maya
Ceramic
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
ED2019.1.1
50. Illustrated Journal by Laura Aldrich Neese (Beloit College graduate, artist, and art collection benefactor)
Beloit College Archives
51. 2 Off white sheer linen shirtwaist blouses c. 1900-1910
52. Brown silk bodice, ca. late 1870s to be worn with a bustle skirt.
Neese Historic Costume Collection
53. Pauk-Arny, 1978
Victor Vasarely
Sreenprint
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pazdan 1984.3.2
54. Light-show Lamp
Doug Henthorn
Collection of the Beloit College Library
55. Teapot, n.d.
Chinese
Red clay
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. Poor EDC 2010.4.8
56. Zines from the Collection of the Beloit College Library:
Dr. Neptune (fiction)
(hearing blue), poetry
Not Straight, Not White, Not Male (Gender,
Sex., and Race)
When the white man gives You money, Nia King (Gender, Sex., and Race)
Better Late than Pregnant (womyn’s health)
Round Things Roll #4 (travel)
The Prince Zine, Joshua James Amberson (music)
Domestic Times (personal)
57. Yearbooks and Round Tables from the Collection of the Beloit College Library:
1920
1931
1943
1961
1970
1972
1995
58. Historic Lab equipment, Chemistry Department
59. Scleractinian Coral (brain coral)
Mineralogy is aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate.
Modern in age
Geological Collection
60. Model Molecule kits,
Chemistry Department
61. Bioma Figure, n.d.
Papua New Guinea
Pigment and wood
Logan Museum of Anthropology,
2006.28.19
62. Walnut Cabinet, 1450/1585
Italian
Wood
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Elbert Neese, the Misses Mouat, Kathryn Adams, and Mrs. John E. Jenkins 1933.1
63. Sage and Himotoshi Netsuke, n.d.
Japanese
Carved Walnut Shell
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of W.F.E. Gurley 1944.1.513
64. In the Gallery, 19th century
Ladislaus Bakalowicz
Oil on panel
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of the Pitkin Family
65. Adoration of the Magi, late 16th century
Italian, follower of Antonio da Correggio
Oil on copper
Wright Museum of Art, Gift of W.F.E. Gurley