10am - 4:30pm | Library Hours
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
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Kathryn Hellerstein created an opportunity for her first-year seminar students to study archival material from a collection donated to the Penn Libraries by her mentor, Israeli scholar Irene Eber.
The history of America is full of women who were pioneers and explorers, but often their stories were overshadowed – or even erased – by the men in their lives. Caroline Fearey Schimmel, CW’67, has spent 50 years working to change that...
Post from Unique at Penn: Stephan Loewentheil and William H. Miller, III, recently gifted the Kislak Center one of the most amazing collections on which I have had the privilege to work … the Edward S. Curtis collection of interpositive glass plates and papers, 1899-1929. Right: Description of and Poem about Curtis’s image “The Vanishing Race.”
Above: Detail of the Rittenhouse Orrery
The accessible entrance of Van pelt-Dietrich Library Center opens into the Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center. This entrance is on the ground floor of the building facing Blanche P. Levy Park and College Hall. A wheelchair accessible doorbell is located on the railing leading toward the door.
