Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center

Kislak Center

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Noteworthy

Soup can of Warhol @ Penn
Andy Warhol @ Penn Again: Exhibitions and programs
Quill pen and signatures of Declaration signers
America 250 at Penn
Page from the diary of David Ralston Stief describing his suffering from the 1918 influenza pandemic while stationed in France during World War I
Penn COVID-19 Community Archiving Project
Online exhibit: Remarkable Figures: Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan
Online exhibit: Remarkable Figures: Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan

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News

Photo of Ashley Bryan by Heather Khalif, staff Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 5, 2019
In memoriam: Ashley Bryan, 1923-2022
Postcard, ca. 1907-1909, with portrait of Ramona Lubo (ca. 1865-1922; photographer unknown)
Special Collections Processing: Decipering a Postcard's Many Meanings
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939
Marian Anderson Collection, Newly Digitized by the Penn Libraries, Now Accessible Online
Willa Cather titles from the Caroline Schimmel Collection
Making Lemonade out of Mrs. Lemmon: An Interview with Caroline Schimmel
A pair of 18th-century oil portraits of Moses Michael Hays and his wife Rachel Myers Hays, attributed to Gilbert Stuart
New Acquisition: A Pair of 18th Century American Jewish Portrait Paintings
Edward S. Curtis, Plate 347: "Yákotlūs - Quatsino" (1914)
University of Pennsylvania Libraries Receives Major Gift of Photographic Plates by Edward S. Curtis
Photograph of Ilan Stavans
The Ilan Stavans Collection of Jewish Latin American History, Culture, and Literature
Arthur Tress with camera
Penn Libraries receives gift of works by renowned photographer Arthur Tress
Illuminated Initial P from UPenn LJS 101
Exploring the History of the Liberal Arts with SIMS Fellow Christine Bachman
The 48th volume of the Daihannya haramitta-kyō, unfolded.
Penn Libraries Acquires 15th Century Printing of the Sūtra of Perfection of Wisdom

Staff

Shelby Wolfe
Lynn Ransom
Dan Traister
Sam Sfirri
Abigail Lang
John Pollack
Amey Hutchins
Barbara Kitamura
Sam Allingham
Sean Quimby
Nicholas Herman
Holly Mengel
Eric Dillalogue
Liz Broadwell
Mitch Fraas
Lynne Farrington
Jackie Parascandola
Samantha Hill
Lauren Rile
Regan Kladstrup
Gerald Leska
Dot Porter