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About Our Collections

Our collections represent the Penn Libraries’ vast information resources as well as the preservation of those resources in many forms. Books, journals, and other printed and digital materials join carefully curated artifacts of cultural and human heritage to advance research and scholarship at Penn and beyond.

Students look at special collection folios in the Museum Library.
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Collage of Manuscripts from the Collection.
Vintage advertising card featuring a blue-toned illustration of two children and a turtle on a brown background. One child on the left bends forward watching a turtle standing upright on its hind legs, while a child on the right plays a horn. A label at the top reads: “Eckstein Brush Co., Henry D. Moore, Jr., 412 Arch St., Philad’a.” The image is printed in blue and cream inks with a textured, nineteenth-century lithograph style.
Two student curators interact with an exhibit alongside a Kislak staff member
A lecture in the Henry Charles Lea Library.

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