Collections at University of Pennsylvania

Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg

Selection from Lawrence Schoenberg's collection of illustrated medieval and early modern manuscripts. The collection includes items from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, monastic, university, ...

A Celebration of Women Writers

A Celebration of Women Writers is a collection of electronic text transcriptions (many with illustrations) edited by volunteer Mary Mark Ockerbloom. This sister site to The On-Line Books Page has ...

Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas

"Cultural Readings" attempts to use the internet to review this complex history. The web site originates from two exhibitions of rare printed and manuscript materials held in Philadelphia, ...

Eugene Ormandy: A Centennial Celebration

The exhibition celebrates the centennial of Eugene Ormandy's birth and pays tribute to his extraordinary 64-year career. The materials on display are a part of the Eugene Ormandy Archive, which ...

Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection

One of two digital image collections now available to users from our digital images project, this collection contains over 100,000 metadata records for slides in our fine arts libraries. About 30,000 ...

Horace Howard Furness Collection

Digital surrogates for objects selected from the Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, University of Pennsylvania, which includes both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and ...

Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen

An exhibition from the Esther B. Aresty Collection - a collection of works on the culinary arts spanning five centuries and representing cultures from nearly every part of the world.

The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: Selected from the Collection of Harris N. Hollin

An online exhibit of surrogates for items in the collection of Harris N. Hollin. Including images of more than 40 plates and excerpts from the texts, the exhibit is thematically organized and focuses ...

John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer

Online exhibition that portrays a history of the emergence of modern computing as seen through the eyes of one of its two principal inventors, John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), who worked at the Moore ...

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895

The Keffer Collection of Sheet Music at the University of Pennsylvania contains 2,531 scores ranging in date from ca. 1790 to 1895. The great majority of the items were published in the United States ...

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection is a private library focusing on late medieval and early modern manuscripts. Mr. Schoenberg is a Penn alumnus and past chair of the Library's Board of Overseers. ...

Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter

Exhibition about Leopold Stokowski from the collections in the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity ...

Networking Artists & Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry

Curated by Craig Saper, Assistant Professor, University of the Arts.

Penn Library E-books Project

Oxford University Press/Penn Digital Books project is a collaborative effort by a major publisher and research library to study the impact of digital books on teaching, research, and learning. As an ...

Robert Montgomery Bird: Writer and Artist

Robert Montgomery Bird (1805/6-1854) was a writer of considerable note. Born in New Castle, Delaware, one hundred and ninety years ago (February 5, 1805 or 1806), he was raised there and in ...

The University of Pennsylvania Art Collection

The University of Pennsylvania has a remarkable and eclectic collection of more than 6,000 objects and artifacts acquired over the past 250 years. The collection is exhibited in various buildings and ...