In 1968 “A Dif­fer­ent Kick” marked a Tri­an­gle mile­stone. It fea­tured the first female under­grad­u­ate to be cast in a Club show, Sue Jean Lee ’70, above, with Fred Davis ’70 (left) and George Cowen ’69 (right).

“Times They Are A-Changin,’ ” the new exhi­bi­tion at the See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library, draws upon the library’s hold­ings to look back on a trans­for­ma­tive era in the University’s his­tory — the years between 1958 and 1983. The exhi­bi­tion opens Fri­day, Feb. 22, and runs through Tues­day, July 15.

Using a mon­tage of pho­tographs, the exhi­bi­tion describes in visual terms the chang­ing order of life on cam­pus: coed­u­ca­tion, the rise of com­put­ing tech­nol­ogy, the for­ma­tion of new aca­d­e­mic depart­ments, the restruc­tur­ing of res­i­den­tial life, polit­i­cal activism by Prince­ton stu­dents dur­ing the 1960s and 1970s, and the vast changes that occurred to the cam­pus phys­i­cally, dur­ing Pres­i­dent Robert Goheen’s tenure particularly.

Notable exhi­bi­tion items drawn from the Uni­ver­sity Archives reflect the vast and var­ied hold­ings of the library itself. These include the Prince­ton flag that landed on the moon at the “Ocean of Storms” in August 1969, car­ried by 1953 alum­nus Charles Con­rad Jr., Princeton’s only lunar astro­naut and com­man­der of Apollo 12. The tome-like “The Edu­ca­tion of Women at Prince­ton” attests to the thor­ough nature of Princeton’s analy­sis in cre­at­ing a coed­u­ca­tional uni­ver­sity. The exhi­bi­tion also includes the 1967 cover of Sports Illus­trated fea­tur­ing 1967 grad­u­ate Gary Wal­ters and 1969 alum­nus Chris Thom­forde, stars of the nation­ally ranked 1966–67 bas­ket­ball team, and a pro­mo­tional poster for Tri­an­gle Club’s per­for­mance of “Break­fast in Bed­lam” in Ger­man. Other inter­est­ing mem­o­ra­bilia include a gold spike, match­book and pro­gram com­mem­o­rat­ing the foot­ball game played between Rut­gers and Prince­ton in 1969, which marked the one hun­dredth anniver­sary of the first inter­col­le­giate foot­ball game ever played.

This exhi­bi­tion also hon­ors and reflects on the expe­ri­ences of the classes of 1958 and 1983, which cel­e­brate their 50th and 25th reunions, respec­tively, May 29-June 1. This por­tion of the exhi­bi­tion draws from a wide vari­ety of pho­tographs, doc­u­ments and mem­o­ra­bilia to recall notable events on cam­pus dur­ing these classes’ tenures.

Among the events and items that are high­lighted for the class of 1958 are The Daily Prince­ton­ian cov­er­age of the “Rock ‘n’ Roll Riot” of 1955, when a mob of stu­dents caused mis­chief on cam­pus while blar­ing the hit song “Rock Around the Clock”; a foot­ball pro­gram hon­or­ing beloved coach Char­lie Cald­well; and the metal sten­cil used to cre­ate the 1958 class jacket.

Events doc­u­mented for the class of 1983 include a Caribbean comic book hon­or­ing the 1979 Nobel Prize win­ner in eco­nom­ics and Prince­ton pro­fes­sor W. Arthur Lewis; a com­i­cal cover designed by 1984 alum­nus Henry Payne for the 1983 Princeton-Columbia foot­ball game; pho­tographs of class­mate and future Olympian Lynn Jen­nings; and of the kick­line from the Tri­an­gle Club num­ber “White Laced and Won­der­ful” from the pro­duc­tion of Under the Influ­ence.

“Times They Are A-Changin’ ” is open to the pub­lic with­out charge from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Mon­day through Fri­day and until 7:45 p.m. Wednes­day. The Mudd Library will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Feb. 23, for Alumni Day and Sat­ur­day, May 31, for Reunions. Begin­ning in June, exhibit hours will be 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Mon­day through Fri­day and until 7:15 p.m. Wednesday.