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 
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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

Events

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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

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