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Behind the Bookcase | Mexico: Race and Revolution in the Borderlands
Sun, February 23, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
The border between Mexico and the United States has been at the heart of trade, politics, art, and spirituality for centuries. This tour will highlight The Rosenbach’s collections from Mexico and Texas, including materials from the Spanish empire, the early years of Mexican independence,…
Behind the Bookcase | Lewis Carroll
Tue, February 25, 2020
6:30 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Mathematician and cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll. This tour will explore both the man and the author, drawing on letters from Dodgson to his publishers, original drawings by John Tenniel (the illustrator of the Alice books)…
Behind the Bookcase | Fakes and Forgeries
Fri, February 28, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Join us as we explore the notion of authenticity across a range of time periods and media in the museum’s collections. From Shakespearean plays, a mug belonging to George Washington, a Dutch portrait miniature, and a manuscript draft by Poe, there are stories to uncover. How do we know the…
Wesley Stace: A Tribute to John Wesley Harding
Sun, March 1, 2020
7:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Throughout the '90s and ‘00s, which included his tenures at Sire, Rhino and Hollywood records, John Wesley Harding regularly toured in a duo format with noted mandolin, accordion and keyboard player, Robert Lloyd. This was at the very dawn of Unplugged, before even house concerts. Once…
Behind the Bookcase | Book Arts
Wed, March 4, 2020
6:30 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Do you prefer to judge a book by its cover, or does the inside matter more? In this tour of book arts, we’ll take a look at various rare books in The Rosenbach collection, their aesthetics, their functions, how the processes in creating books inform how we use them today, and vice versa.…
Behind the Bookcase | Native American History
Fri, March 6, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
American history is the history of dialogues among the many peoples who have called—and call—America home. Highlighting The Rosenbach’s remarkable collection of books, manuscripts, and printed documents that reveal how Native Americans engaged with European and Euro-American…
Shakespeare Free Read-Aloud Group: Othello
Sat, March 7, 2020
1:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Reading Shakespeare’s plays aloud offers not only a communal way to enjoy these great works but also promotes a deeper understanding of their poetry and wordplay. No acting experience is required to participate—just bring your voice and a copy of the play! This event is completely…
Behind the Bookcase | Castaways: Displacement and Opportunity at Sea
Sun, March 8, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Pirates, enslaved people, shipwreck survivors, emigrants—for centuries people uprooted from lives on land took their chances on the sea. Some have gone willingly, but many had no choice. Look at and handle materials from the 17th to the 19th century by and about a diverse group of…
Behind the Bookcase | The Fabulous Rosenbach Boys
Wed, March 11, 2020
6:30 P.M.
The Rosenbach
In the beginning, there was the Rosenbachs, and they were fabulous. Scroll through The Rosenbach’s storied history to our museum’s origins! Meet young Phil and Abe at the genesis of their dealing and collecting careers! On this tour, we’ll separate fact from fable, see some of…
In Conversation With Lisa Norling | Quaker Wives and Cape Horn Widows: The Women Melville Left on Shore
Thu, March 12, 2020
6:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
There are very few female characters in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Captain Ahab did have a wife. But she never appears in person and she’s mentioned just twice in the whole novel, both times as a symbol of the emotional ties Ahab abandoned when the Pequod set sail. In this lecture, Dr.…
Behind the Bookcase | Herman Melville, American Voyager
Fri, March 13, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
With a warm heart for human nature, a cold eye for the human condition, and prose that would awe a Biblical prophet, Herman Melville was too good for his time. Join us for an odyssey through The Rosenbach’s mighty Melville collection. We’ll chart our voyage toward the source of…
Hands-on History Presents: Picturing Indigenous History. The Story of the “Indian Gallery” at the United States Department of War, and its Lessons for U.S./Indigenous Diplomacy
Sat, March 14, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Explore the long and complex history of the United States federal government’s relationship with the Indigenous peoples of North America by studying the Free Library of Philadelphia Rare Book Department’s copy of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, written by Thomas L.…
Behind the Bookcase | James Joyce and Irish Authors
Sun, March 15, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
The Rosenbach is home to an incredible collection of works by Irish authors. Along with James Joyce’s handwritten manuscript of his modernist masterpiece Ulysses, we’ll also read and handle works by Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, and more! These Irish authors have connections and…
Behind the Bookcase | Marianne Moore
Sun, March 15, 2020
3:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Poet Marianne Moore (born on November 15, 1887) broke free of tradition and reassembled the pieces in a new and sometimes confounding way. In this tour, we will study her letters, clippings and the objects she surrounded herself with to find out more about the sources for her revolutionary and…
Hands-on History Presents: Uncovering the Real James Bond at The Free Library of Philadelphia
Sat, April 11, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
at
Parkway Central Library
In researching his new book about Philadelphian James Bond, whose identity was stolen by Ian Fleming, author Jim Wright found a goldmine the Free Library's Rare Book Department. In the James and Mary Bond archives there, Wright unearthed all sorts of rare images and documents pertaining to…