New Exhibit Spotlights the Mighty Peanut

Submitted by Jan Hebbard on

Photograph of Maston O'Neal

What do the U.S. Navy, the National School Lunch Program, and the former Soviet Union have in common? Why, peanuts of course!

A new installation inside Russell Library Gallery explores Georgia's second largest cash crop through the lenses of our six key collecting areas: politics, public good, social relations, environment, economy, and peace and war. Assembled by volunteer researcher Bill Hugunine, the selection of items on display provides a series of stories about peanuts, from World War II through the 1990s, found in the Russell Library’s collections. A fun assemblage of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera from a variety of our collections, the exhibit will remain on display through June 2018. Be sure to stop by on your next visit to the Special Collections Building

Do you have a suggestion for what topic we should take on next in the gallery? Tweet your idea to @RussellLibrary and it may be the next to appear!