Now We Are Five

This week marks the 5th anniversary of the Rosen-blog, which began on Thursday August 25, 2005. In lieu of my regular post, I encourage our loyal readers to revisit the blog archives and see where we’ve been. Here are some of my favorites from deep storage [none written by me], to get you started: Black …

Something New

As promised, the “something new” this week is our new Westward Ho! exhibit, which opened on Wednesday. The exhibit got a nice shout out in the City Paper yesterday, so thanks to them for that. This show, like pretty much everything we do here at the Rosenbach, was a real team effort:it was co-curated by …

Something Blue

Picking up on last week’s theme of “something old”, I’m jumping to the end of the rhyme to highlight a few of my favorite “something blue” items in our collection. Patch box. 1954.2058 First off is this lovely blue box, which dates from the late eighteenth-century (ca 1790-1800). The picture doesn’t do it justice, but …

Poetry

As one last follow up on the Declaration of Independence, I’d like to give a hat-tip to our friends at Independence National Historical Park for their annual reading of the Declaration, which happens every July 8, the day the Declaration was first read publicly. It has become a bit of a collections department tradition to …

More on the Declaration

After I published last week’s musings on our copy of the Declaration I heard this story on NPR about the Library of Congress’s use of hyperspectral imaging to determine word changes in Jefferson’s rough draft. Apparently Jefferson changed the word “subjects” to “citizens,” no small matter. Here’s the official LC news release on the topic.