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American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott was born on this day in 1832 in Germantown. This gilded

This charming piece of marginalia is from a bound manuscript of four devotional works created in Eng

Ivory Memorandum Book (Ms. Coll. 1237) [England? between 1750 and 1850] Sarah Guérin, UPenn Dept. of

Detail from a set of five trading cards from Levi Strauss and Company. Created in San Francisco circ

LJS 185 contains the unbound leaves of an Egyptian psalter from the monastery of Saint Anthony on th

This #throwbackthursday we’re looking back to 2016 (December the 22nd, to be exact), when @atelier.a

Our contribution this week to the #librarywonderland challenge this week comes from our 2017 calenda

All this month we’ve loved exploring the #librarywonderland tag and find ourselves in the midst of m

While being inside with books offers some respite from cold temperatures, it’s easy to be drawn in b

An idyllic scene from “The Parlour Teacher”, a reader published in 1804 by Jacob Johnson

We couldn’t resist sharing one more #boatsinthelibrary image as the summer seems to float away

Detail of blueprints from an experimental investigation conducted on the use of magnetic coils carri

We’ve fallen in love with this buffalo, his eye makes such soulful promises…He is the s

A ship, a train, and a collective of sage travelers circle the eternal compass in this montage of Ki

Playful figures and creatures spring to life among the foliate borders of this beautiful manuscript

There is a rich history behind the tranquil gaze of this girl posing in a gesture of prayer. This st

Jun’ichi Yano 矢野準一 was born in 1911 or 1912 in Kyoto, Japan as the youngest child of the Yano family

This piece of juvenile literature is titled “London Cries for Children” and was publishe

This fascinating piece of our Indic manuscript collection was featured in the 2015 exhibit *This Boo

Here, in a copy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Ethics, the scribe appears to have gotten somewhat di

In honor of the first night of Hanukkah celebrations, here is a detail from “The Story of Hanukkah”,

LJS 46 is a manuscript that contains very little text and many botanical illustrations, mainly consi

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner!This is a drawing of Venus and Cupid from a heavily

The Philadelphia family of Proctors and Wallis’s documented their lives—a lot! Mary Wallis, on

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