Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing contrasting different periods of time. In the top two panels, Wilson is shown first speaking to a cheering crowd in contrast to speaking inside a room with unenthusiastic people listening. In the middle two panels, the Arc de Triomphe is shown first in a barren landscape in contrast with lots of people marching in a procession through the Arc, cheering and waving flags. The final two panels shows a boy reading "A Story of the Plains" while sitting on a haystack in contrast to a boy reading the same story on a comfortable chair.

This top panel of this cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin walking outside in Paris, France. Benjamin Franklin held the title of Commissioner to France from 1776 to 1785, while he served as an ambassador to France during and after the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin is walking in a busy market place and passes an "epicere", which can be translated from French to mean a grocery. The bottom panel shows Woodrow Wilson passing through the streets of Paris in a parade. Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris in 1919 after the fighting in WWI had ceased. Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference, which would eventually produce the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles is the treaty that formally concluded WWII. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

12mo (19.6 x 13.1 cm, 7.75 x 5.125"). [1] f.Paris was the center of Bible production in the 13th century, with the text having been standardized there, and the University attracting scholars who wished to have just such a small Bible as this leaf came from—a new thing in the 13th century. [BEING QUERIED: The text here is I Samuel 22:15-25:8, including the pursuit of David by King Saul and the famous scene where David sneaks up and cuts off part of the king's cloak, later showing it to Saul as proof of his good faith, that when he could have killed him, he forebore doing so.]nnThis leaf is of fine quality (i.e., thin) vellum, with the text in two columns per page of 57 lines each, ruled in lead, the top line written below the top rule. The pricking for the rules is still present on the outside edge of the leaf. The scribe has written very small in black ink in compact Gothic script of the style typical of Bibles and other scholarly manuscripts of the 13th century, though it shows a few characteristics of later cursive Gothic. The running headers are in red and blue letters with a little pen tracery. The numbers heading each chapter (XXIII, XXIIII, and XXV) are likewise in red and blue, and there are 3 two-line initials (one on the recto and two on the verso) heading each chapter, a red E, a blue A (with a long descender), and a red M, each with elaborate and long tracery in the contrasting color. There are also notes to the rubricator on the edges.nnProvenance: Ex-Zion Research Foundation (later known as the Endowment for Biblical Research); very likely to Zion from Ege. nnSome spots of staining in the margins, and remnants of adhesive with vellum thinned where it was removed.,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439261/datastream/PDF/view

"Bifolium. Manuscript on vellum, 12mo (17.7 x 23.7 cm, 7 x 9.25"). [2] fA double-page spread from a small Paris Bible. Paris was the center of Bible production in the 13th century, with the text having been standardized there, and the University attracting scholars who wished to have just such a small Bible as this double leaf came from—a new thing in the 13th century. The texts on this bifolium are Ezekiel 27:11-30:3, containing prophecies against Tyre and Egypt, and Ezekiel 44:17-47:4, with directions for restoring the life of a just and righteous Israel and the beginning of Ezekiel's vision of water pouring forth from the temple.nnThis leaf is of very fine paper-thin vellum. The text is in two columns per page of 53 lines, faintly ruled in lead, the top line written above the top rule. The outer edge of the second leaf retains its prickings. Text is written in black ink in a very small and compact Gothic script of the style typical of Bibles and other scholarly manuscripts of the 13th century. The running headers are in red and blue ink, the numbers heading each chapter are likewise in red and blue, and there are 1 ten-line initial I (in red with blue tracery), 1 four-line initial H (in blue with red tracery), and 4 two-line initials (in red or blue with tracery in the contrasting color). Key initials in the text are lined in red. Some corrections have likewise been made in the text, in black or red, and there is some marginalia in black and red in an early hand.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439250/datastream/PDF/view

12mo (17 x 12.3 cm, 6.75 x 4.875"). [1] f.A "Peaceable Kingdom" leaf from a small Bible: Paris was the center of Bible production in the 13th century, with the text having been standardized there, and the University attracting scholars who wished to have just such a small Bible as this leaf came from—a new thing in the 13th century. The text here is Isaiah 61:3-66:10, containing a prophecy of the restoration of Jerusalem, including the well-known Isaiah 65:25: "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpents meat. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord."(KJV)nnThis leaf is of very fine paper-thin vellum. The text is in two columns per page of 53 lines, faintly ruled in lead, the top line written below the top rule; it is written in black ink in an extremely small and compact Gothic script of the style typical of Bibles and other scholarly manuscripts of the 13th century. The running headers are in red and blue ink, the numbers heading each chapter are likewise in red and blue, and the 5 two-to-three-line initials (3 on the recto, and 2 on the verso) beginning each chapter are in red or blue, the Q's with long descenders, and all with elaborate long tracery in the contrasting color. A few instructions to the rubricator are to be found in the gutters.nnParchment with slight cockling. Some letters rubbed, affecting legibility in one place. Two pieces of cloth tape, likely for mounting, have been attached in the inner margin of the verso, running beyond the edge of the leaf. The quality and thinness of the parchment, the minuteness of the writing, and quality of the decoration make this a particularly fine, beautiful, and delicate piece.,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439258/datastream/PDF/view