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The image for this month in the Kislak Center wall calendar comes from an 1865 edition of *Gulliver’

It seems that this title belonged to a chained library, a method which began to appear in the Middl

Stewart Culin (1858-1929) was a Philadelphia-born ethnographer and author who collected many things,

Penn’s holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western Hemisphere with more than 3,000 i

This intricately illustrated bookplate is from a bound selection of texts and chants for use in a Fr

Map of Antarctica, taken from volume one of “The South Pole” by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1

Indian clubs were a popular method of exercise in the 19th century. Some fitness enthusiasts are rev

*Labeculae Vivae: Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts* is cu

The circulatory system of a cow, as found in Andrew A. Gardenier’s *Handbook of Ready Reference.* Th

Frank Lloyd Wright, father of Organic Architecture, was born on this day in 1867. The design of this

Detail from a French textbook on physics created between 1787 and 1788. This work includes diagrams

A universal message of encouragement from the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporati

This is a bound collection of works about scholastic philosophy created by a student in early 18th-c

Next Friday, October 27th we are holding the opening reception for *The Worlds Between* on the sixth

Hooray! Economist Clement Wilson likely drew this giraffe as the personification of his relief at an

A tufted ring-necked budget pecker is a rare breed indeed, conceived in the mind of economist Clemen

To continue our exploration of #awesomeLetterheads, we’re sharing another object from the Georgij Sa

In honor of Edward Gorey’s birthday tomorrow, we are looking at some of the artist and author’s rare

Here’s a #shelfie of tomes from the Lea Library. Founded by historian and publisher Henry Charles L

This #shelfie is from the display case of the Dembo Juvenile Literature Collection held on the secon

This florid, beautiful script can be found in the pages of a ledger of expenses of Fabbio Giunigi, B

Such a great dress! #whatthelibrarianwore “Beautiful means ‘full of beauty.’ Beautiful is not about

Double decker dress ❤️ #whatthelibrarianwore “Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, wh

#whatthelibrarianwore “Autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most pe

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