Looking to liven up your Thanksgiving turkey? Maybe you could serve it with mangoes. That’s an option mentioned in the 1812 American cookery: or, the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables. . . adopted to this country and all grades of life, which is on display in A Taste of History. Here’s the …
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Fame & Food
It’s been a great news week for the Rosenbach. Just in case you missed it, here’s a link to the Philadelphia Inquirer story about our Gratz aquisitions, and here are links to the coverage by KYW and WHYY of our Today in the Civil War blog. Not too shabby. But never content to rest on …
“Today in the Civil War” Blog Launches on Saturday
After a year and a half of preparation, I am pleased to announce that the Rosenbach’s online project Today in the Civil War: Dispatches From the Rosenbach Collection will [finally] begin tomorrow, November 6, on the 150th anniversary of the election of Abraham Lincoln. The project uses a blog format, so you can just hop …
A Big Thank You to the White Gloves Gang!
This week saw the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) meeting in Philadelphia. On Sunday our facilities manager Stacey Hendricks talked about our 2008 gallery relighting project as part of a panel and on Wednesday the Rosenbach were lucky enough to be a project site for the White Gloves Gang, organized by the Registrars Committee of …
If Only There Were More than 24 Hours in a Day
First off, a quick bit of vampire news to go along with tomorrow’s Dracula events. Those of you who followed the Lincoln project last year may recall the Seth Grahame-Smith mash-up novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I just found out that 21st-Century Fox has won the rights to the movie version, to be produced by …
Portraits of Civil War Heroes–An Update
In late August we posted about Dave Burrell’s fourth composition for the Rosenbach, which is entitled Portraits of Civil War Heroes and will premier January 19 & 22. To further whet your appetite, Farrar Fitzgerald, our intrepid Sunstein Family Assistant Director of Education, has filmed a couple of short interviews with Dave about his upcoming …
Going a Bit Batty
First of all, thanks to everyone who made last week’s Banned Books Week a success. If you weren’t at the Authors of Mischief reading, you might enjoy this post from the blogger at “A Quick Succession of Busy Nothings,” who was. Now we are into Dracula season–check out this nice feature from WRTI on our …
Gallery Wordsmiths
Patrick here, giving our tireless Kathy a little break from the blogosphere. It’s only been, oh, almost three years since my last post, so I suppose I’m overdue. My reason for blogging today has to do with some fun gallery activities we’ve built into our recent exhibitions, as well as their fascinating responses that we’ve …
The Answers!
Now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for–the answers to last week’s object quiz! This gizmo is a saddle watch and pedometer manufactured by Ralph Gout around 1800. The horse’s movement causes the watch and outer case to move up and down, forcing the chain to pull on the pedometer mechanism. The lower right …
What is It?
I’m away this week, so I figured I’d turn the tables and make you, the reader, do the work. I’ve pulled some images of unusual or quirky items in our collection. Your job is to figure out what they are. Answers in next week’s post or if you can’t wait you can always use our …