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Images from the Fairman Rogers Collection - A set of twelve notecards
These notecards feature six different images of horses from the Fairman Rogers Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Fairman Rogers (1833-1900) was a Penn Alumnus (A.B. 1853, A.M. 1856), Professor of Civil Engineering (1855-1871), co-founder of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and internationally recognized horseman. These images are from works in the collection, given to the University and consisting of medical guides as well as books on the shoeing, harnessing, training, riding, and racing of horses. The collection serves as an important resource for research into the role of the horse in the technical, scientific, and social evolution of Europe and North America through the end of the nineteenth century.
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(01-18-2013) |
Fairman Rogers |
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This exhibition surveys European book illustration during the sixteenth century from Penn's rich collections. Their wide variety of styles and subjects illuminate what early modern book
illustrators provided readers in an environment visually far less rich than the one we take for granted. Religion, labor, science, warfare, costume, medicine, portraits, exotic places, and more - all these topics found their way not only into
words but also into pictures.
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(03-01-2010) |
Reading Pictures |
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Images of the Holy Land - A set of twelve notecards
This set of notecards features twelve images of the Holy Land selected from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography at the Penn Libraries. The Lenkin Collection contains more than 3,700 original photographs of the Holy Land taken from 1850 to 1937.
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(08-15-2012) |
Images of the Holy Land |
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(03-14-2012) |
Wonders of the Microscope |
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Astrology and Labors - A Medieval Year 2013 Calendar
The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, donated to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Penn Libraries Board members Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C53, WG56), embodies the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval world. This thirteen-month wall calendar features illustrations selected from two astronomical treatises dating from the 1400s (LJS 463 and LJS 449).
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(08-15-2012) |
Astrology and Labors |
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(10-01-2011) |
Birds of Mark Catesby |
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etween 1572 and 1617, Georg Braun, editor, and Franz Hogenberg, engraver, produced the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume collection of views of cities of the world published to complement the first modern atlas, Abraham
Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, a map collection first published in 1570. A selection from collector Jack Sosiak's large group of Braun and Hogenberg's city views are exhibited.
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(03-14-2011) |
Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar |
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An exploration of Wharton Esherick's artistic evolution during the early decades of the twentieth century. Based on the 2010-2011 exhibition in the Kamin and Kroiz Galleries of the
University of Pennsylvania, this catalog includes over 300 images as well as an essay by Paul Eisenhauer, Curator of the Wharton Esherick Museum, expanding upon the exhibition's themes.
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(09-07-2010) |
Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern |
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Zen Classics for the Modern World contains three Chinese Zen texts from different traditions and eras: the 8th century Northern Zen poetic masterpiece Enjoying the Way; Ten Oxherding
Pictures, poems from the 12th century Rinzai tradition; and Exhortations for Those Who Don't Arouse the Doubt from the early 17th century SC4tC4 tradition. This edition includes authoritative commentary revealing the depth and diversity
of Zen Buddhism as a living tradition.
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(04-26-2011) |
Zen Classics for the Modern World |
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This collection of pamphlets published in Philadelphia during and immediately after the Civil War provides fresh perspectives on the views of urban Union supporters. From the challenge
to political liberties, to the future of freed slaves, to the medical treatment of soldiers, these accounts provide contemporary points of view from this time of national crisis and reform. Pamphlets in this volume have been selected from the
collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and are reproduced as high-quality facsimiles.
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(01-15-2011) |
Our Beloved Country |
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(09-01-2009) |
Good Education of Youth |
