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 
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Goldstein Gallery 
Research account
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Subject specialists

Noteworthy

Kaplan Collection trade card
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica
"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
Front cover of 2020 Kislak Center Annual Report, showing Marian Anderson by Richard Avedon
Kislak Center Annual Report 2020

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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
Printer’s device of Nikolas Brylinger (“Basler Büchermarken” no. 171 (IV)) from title leaf of Agostino Steuco’s “De Perenni Philosophia Libri X” (1542)
Special Collections Processing: Lions on the Clock II: Six Owners, Five Marks of Provenance, One Book (and Two Lawsuits)
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939
Marian Anderson Collection, Newly Digitized by the Penn Libraries, Now Accessible Online
Willa Cather titles from the Caroline Schimmel Collection
Making Lemonade out of Mrs. Lemmon: An Interview with Caroline Schimmel
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
In the beginning text from UPenn LJS 188
Manuscript Monday: LJS 188 – Ynstruction of the ephimeredes
Kaplan Collection manuscript and corresponding data (OPenn)
"Just Make the Data Available": Exploring Manuscripts with OPenn
Photograph of Ilan Stavans
The Ilan Stavans Collection of Jewish Latin American History, Culture, and Literature
Arthur Tress with camera
Penn Libraries receives gift of works by renowned photographer Arthur Tress

Staff

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