The core of the Penn Libraries’ outstanding linguistics collection is the library of August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887), professor of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Halle and first librarian of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.
The core of the Penn Libraries’ outstanding linguistics collection is the library of August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887), professor of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Halle and first librarian of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.
The Penn Libraries Latin American Collection includes a substantial collection of ephemera, books, and audiovisual materials from Central America, focusing on sources for political and social history.
The Robert Dechert Collection includes over 1600 printed books focusing on American travel, exploration, and Native American relations with settlers. Materials date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. French Americana and the writings of Las Casas are particular strengths of the collection. A Dechert fund supports ongoing acquisitions.
This broad collection includes twentieth-century pamphlets and periodicals from across the political spectrum.
Penn Libraries’ collection of Indigenous children’s literature from Latin America is modest but notable.
Penn Libraries has a substantive Indo-Caribbean collection that strives to reveal histories, communities, and cultural expressions that have remained underrepresented in most research libraries.
The Sydney S. Keil Collection contains over 1,000 items from colonial Latin America, including books, pamphlets, broadsides, and maps. A particular focus of the collection is the religious history of Mexico in the colonial period. The collection was presented it to the Penn Libraries by Jeffrey D. Keil in memory of his father in 1986, and it continues to grow thanks to an endowment.