Elyse Poinsett here, the official stand for the Special Events and Marketing hats at the Rosenbach. Most of you probably know me best as the voice behind our e-newsletter (sign up here!), facebook page, and Twitter feed. As a relatively new Rosenbacher, I was pretty overwhelmed by my first Bloomsday and I’ve decided to steal …
Things are busy around here today, so no time for a long post. If you haven’t already started, there probably isn’t time to read Ulysses by tomorrow, but you can always check out the BBC’s Cheat’s Guide to Ulysses if you missed Bloomsday 101 last night (plus it features a comment from Stephen Fry). You …
As you may have noticed, the temperature and humidity in Philadelphia have been a bit, shall we say, variable over the past week. Such swings are not good for books and art, since it can cause them to expand and contract, soak up moisture, etc. So we do our best to keep everything as stable …
Last week we talked about a couple of projects around the web; this week I wanted to mention a couple of performance projects around town which have come to my (wandering) attention. First off is Gibraltar, at Plays and Players. Last week we talked about Ulysses Seen, which is Ulysses adapted as a graphic novel; …
Who knows if the internet makes us smarter or dumber, but it sure is fun. Here are a couple of new items from across the web which have a bit more literary worth than your average video of dancing kittens. Don Quixote:Don Quixote was Dr. Rosenbach’s favorite book and not only do we have many …
Two weeks ago, a group of our hardworking Rosenbach docents embarked on the annual docent trip. For the first time, this was an overnight adventure, with the Hudson River Valley as their destination. Rosenbach docent Susan Sklaroff has kindly given me permission to repost her blog entry about the excursion. Photographs are thanks to docents …
Here are a selection of floral tidbits from across the Rosenbach collection on this beautiful May day. A wallpaper cover for a 1743 Poor Richard’s pocket almanac.[Benjamin Franklin], A pocket almanac for the year 1743. . . By R. Saunders, philom. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, [1742] 742p A watercolor painted by Marianne Moore in …
Anyone who has taken our Philadelphia Artists hands-on-tour has seen some of the copper plates from American Entomology by Thomas Say, which was published in 1824 by the Academy of Natural Sciences, just up the street from us. Many of the plates are from drawings by Titian Peale, the youngest son of Charles Willson Peale. …
For those of you who missed last weekend’s Civil War History Consortium parade (luckily, it did not actually rain during the parade, although it was quite windy), here is a slideshow of photos from the event. The first image is of Robert Hicks, the director of the Mütter Museum, decked out in his surgeon’s uniform–here’s …
The Rosenbach started early with our Civil War 150th commemoration–our programming began on the anniversary of the election of Abraham Lincoln–but this week marked the 150th anniversary of the opening shots at Fort Sumter. Citation: Charleston Mercury extra. Charleston, 13 April 1861. AN .C477 Join the Rosenbach and other Philadelphia-area history organizations this Saturday for …