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This series of photographs are of the Rosenbach brothers’ New York City home, located at 322 E. 57th street. The home was more of a show room the a residence. Many of the objects in these photos are now on display at the museum.

In 1681 Charles II King of England (so handsomely portrayed in the upper left hand corner of this Charter) granted tracks of land to William Penn. This “birth certificate” for what later became the state of Pennsylvania will be on display at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg from March 7-16th. This will mean …

The Rosenbach Museum & Library has one of the largest selections of Robert Burns (1759-96) material in the world. The highlight of the collection, purchased by ASW Rosebach in 1929, is an edition of Burn’s poems which was owned by Mrs. Dunlop. (It is shelved on the western wall of the British collection in the …

Lets take a moment here to examine smoking in the Rosenbach collections! The inspiration for this course of study is greatly inspired by the recent publication of The Joys of Smoking by author James Fitzgerald (who is also my father). The Rosenbach brothers were smokers, their generation was the “smoking generation” when cigarettes became king …

The two shelves to the left of the Holford Defoe collection hold a selection of Fine Press books . This collection (approx. 600 volumes in the Rosenbach collections) provides an overview of the best of the 19th-20th century printing. These presses were interested in the production of the “book beautiful.” In addition to the publications …

Pinouris, Son of Hor perches on top of a column in the east Library. Pa-iu-en-hor, known in Greek as Pinouris, was “God’s Father” and the “Prophet of Amun in Karnak.” Pinouris holds lettuce leaves in his hands, these are symbolic of fertility to the Egyptians. The three columns of text on the back pillar contain …