When giving tours or talking with people about the Rosenbach, I often get questions about “autographs” and whether the Rosenbach collects them. The word “autograph” comes from the Greek for “self” and “write” and when we talk about an “autograph document” here at the Rosenbach, we are talking about an item that is handwritten by …
We’ve written before on this blog about Dave Burrell and his ongoing five-year series of compositions for the Civil War 150th (see here, here and here); this year’s performances, Listening to Lincoln, will take place next week on Thursday April 10 and Saturday April 12. But this year there’s more–a companion installation, entitled Four Scores …
This February the Rosenbach sent a three-inch object on a three thousand mile voyage. 2014 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known to the art world as El Greco. The city of Toledo, El Greco’s home for almost 40 years, is celebrating with the largest El Greco exhibition ever, entitled …
The current tensions over Crimea perhaps inevitably bring to mind a previous Russian/European conflict over the Black Sea area–the Crimean War of the 1850s. Although the war has generally been little remembered in the West (although apparently in Russia it is another story), one aspect has resounded in popular memory: the charge of the Light …
This Wednesday marked the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. There has been a lot of online hoopla, including this great slideshow from PCMagazine of the earliest websites, as well as an article on predictions that didn’t come true. Given the anniversary, it seemed like a great time to check in on our Networking …
As we all look forward fervently to the thaw, it’s time for many people to start thinking about spring break. One of my favorite places I visited on a spring break was Niagara Falls, which I traveled to in college, many years ago. Even though it was still somewhat cold and not all the tourist …
Although not usually lauded as great literature, dime novels are an interesting part of the Rosenbach collection. The Rosenbach has over 65 dime novels, which is both a sizable number and only a tiny sample of what was produced. The short, generally formulaic, inexpensive tales (often set in the West) were incredibly popular in 19th-century …
The Rosen-blog was out of commission last week due to snow, but we’re back now, so here are the answers to our literary lovers quiz. Romeo & Juliet Petrarch & Laura John Keats & Fanny Brawne Elizabeth Bennett & Fitzwilliam Darcy Odysseus & Penelope Lady Chatterley & Oliver Mellors Paolo & Francesca Beatrice & Benedick …
Photograph by James. Available under Creative Commons 2.0 Generic Licence. It’s February at the Rosenbach, which means it’s our annual celebration of literary love and romance. We will be offering our popular “Love Letters” Hands-on Tour on February 14 and 16 and this year we’re also offering “Date Night at the Rosenbach”–two for one tickets …
It has been a busy week here at the Rosenbach and for our colleagues at in the Rare Book Department at the Free Library. Here at the Rosenbach we’ve opened our new exhibit Networking Before the Net: Sharing Information in the Pre-Digital Age, while at the central branch they have opened Shakespeare for All Time …