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

General information

Kislak Center 
Reading Room 
Goldstein Gallery 
Research account
Reader services
Reprographics
Room reservation
Subject specialists

Noteworthy

Kaplan Collection trade card
Arthur and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
Joanna Banks in her library, ca 2018
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books
"Master B.F.,” Decorated letter P from the Santi Angelo e Niccolò at Villanova Sillaro choirbooks; Lombardy, ca. 1500. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E M 76:52
Online exhibit: Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries
Online exhibit: Remarkable Figures: Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan
Online exhibit: Remarkable Figures: Women in the Art of Ashley Bryan

Events

Publications

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News

Photo of Ashley Bryan by Heather Khalif, staff Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 5, 2019
Renowned African American author and artist is honored with a new archive at Penn
Cookie and littlun, Tehon Collection
Special Collections Processing: Holiday Cards for the New Year
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939
Marian Anderson Collection, Newly Digitized by the Penn Libraries, Now Accessible Online
See what we are cooking, follow us on instagram: <em>Pearl's Kitchen</em>, 1974. Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks
See what we are cooking, follow us on Instagram: Pearl's Kitchen, 1974. Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks
French woman's coiffure, from Ouvrages en cheveux idéal (manuscript 1878)
Unique at Penn blog: "Hair It Is," a newly-acquired 19th c. manuscript album of ideal coiffures
LJS 393, Sharḥ Fuṣūl Buqurāṭ.
Manuscript Monday: LJS 393 – Medical commentaries

Staff

Sam Allingham
April James
Barbara Kitamura
Dot Porter
Douglas Emery
Abigail Lang
Nicholas Herman
Seth Quimby
Donna Brandolisio
Emma Cawlfield
Sam Sfirri
Amey Hutchins
Jackie Parascandola
Lynn Ransom
Lauren Rile
Dan Traister
Liz Broadwell
Regan Kladstrup
David McKnight
Gerald Leska
Mitch Fraas
John Pollack
Jessica Dummer
Holly Mengel
Lynne Farrington
Eric Dillalogue
Kelly Tuttle
Dennis Mullen
Shelby Wolfe
Devinne Melecki