Hi there, Joyceans! This is Judy Guston, Curator and Director of Collections at the Rosenbach starting a new addition to Ulysses Every Day! This Bloomsday will be my 22nd at the Rosenbach! This year, from now through our virtual Bloomsday, my Collections teammates and I will be sharing with you some illustrated stories about the …
[This week’s post is by our able collections intern Jessica Walthew] Today’s post, on this beautiful, sunny day, is in celebration of Earth Day. Founded 40 years ago, Earth Day was created as a day for us to think about our planet and how we treat it. Here at the Rosenbach we’ve been enjoying our …
Today is not only tax day, but also the 145 anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 while attending a performance of Our American Cousin, lingered through the night without regaining consciousness, and died at 7:22 A.M. on April 15, 1865. One of the items in our current …
Meet Jobi Zink and her dog Bourbon! Jobi has been the registrar at The Rosenbach since 2014. What is a registrar you ask? “Well,” says Jobi, “much like a university registrar keeps all the files on all the students a museum registrar keeps all the files on all the museum’s objects.” Jobi studied art history …
I like dinosaurs. I always have. I grew up in Stamford, CT and therefore was ideally placed to enjoy the dinosaurs at the Peabody Museum at Yale (click here to see some old-school Peabody postcards from the Marianne Moore collection) and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I guess I was destined for …
A few nights ago I was reading through a parenting magazine that I somehow became subscribed to (I think it may have come free with something I bought on Amazon?) and I saw an ad for the new version of the Electric Company on PBS. Some of you may remember the original Electric Company,which aired …
This has been a fairly odds-and-ends week for me–a little cataloging, several public tours, reading applications for summer internships, tracking down object sizes for this summer’s Westward Ho! exhibit. Nothing especially noteworthy, so I thought I’d devote this blog entry to some really cool Internet finds that have come across my desk. First, courtesy of …
After last weekend’s cold and gloom, it has been a beautiful sunny week here in Philadelphia–the kind of week that makes me glad that I work only three blocks from Rittenhouse Square and can soak in the sun on my lunch break. It’s also the kind of weather that gets me in the mood for …
Our fabulous collection intern Joanna Hoover has been going through our Civil-War-era newspapers and creating summaries, to be used in our upcoming Civil War 150 web project (coming this fall to a computer near you!). She admitted to me that she wasn’t expecting much from this January 26, 1861 issue of The New York Herald–after …
In my last post I noted that I will be giving three Carroll-themed hands-on tours this month in honor of the movie. However I incorrectly gave the third date as March 17th, when it really should be March 19th (I think my mind was somewhere through the looking glass as I was typing furiously to …