Americana Hands-On Tour

Tourists & Their Travels

Hands-On Tours
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

How did people travel in 19th-century America? In this new hands-on tour we hear from gold rush emigrants, settlers, soldiers, Indians, and European tourists. Examine the travel papers they left behind-maps, advertisements, broadsides, letters home, guidebooks, and scrap books-and see where they went and what they saw.

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An Unblushing Impudence
Wed, 02/15/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Rockwell Kent illustration for Moby-Dick. 1930 Random House Edition. AL1.M531mo
Reading Group

Reading Group: Moby-Dick
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Rockwell Kent, The Masthead, illustration for Moby Dick, Random House edition.19
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The Sea
Fri, 02/17/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Dudley Adams, Celestial Globe. London, ca. 1800. 1954.0324.001.
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Tourists & their Travels
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Exhibitions

Inquiring Minds
Rosenbach Researchers Report Back
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - Sunday, March 25, 2012
Each year, hundreds of on- and off-site researchers make use of the Rosenbach’s collections. Inquiring Minds is the first of its kind: an exhibition that shows a cross-section of our researchers’ projects from concept to completion. More
War Declared broadside. A 861w

The Civil War Begins
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - Sunday, July 17, 2011
The Rosenbach kicks off its commemoration of Civil War 150 with this exhibition focusing on the war’s causes and earliest days, from the pre-war wrangling over abolition and states’ rights to the bombing of Fort Sumter and the first pitched battles. More

Gallery

Charleston Mercury. Charleston ,S.C., 13 April 1861 AN .C477
Photograph of Elmer Ellsworth. ca 1860-1861. AMs 811/2.1
War Declared! [Potosi, Mo., 1861] A 861w
Robert E. Lee, autograph letter signed to Winfield Scott. 20 April 1861. AMs 359/23
The Civil War Begins
Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God …, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Samuel Gree
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1733. Philadelphia, 1732. A732p
Nakahama Manjiro. Drifting: illustrated manuscript. Japan, 1852.
War Declared!! Friends of the South and justice, to arms!! [Potosi?, Missouri: 1
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“Lincoln mourning badge. 1865. 2005.2”
“Abraham Lincoln, Baltimore address: holograph manuscript. [not after 18 Apr. 18
“Daniel J. Pound, engraver, after photograph by Matthew Brady, Abraham Lincoln.
“Maira Kalman, Lincoln Memorial: final text overlay. 2009.”
Finding Lincoln
ARCHIVE, photograph of Lincoln dress. 2008
Maira Kalman, Finding Lincoln: Flag. 2009.
21st-Century Abe document viewer. 2009
Order of procession for the inauguration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg
21st-Century Abe

Artist Projects

Bryce Dessner

The Lincoln Shuffle
Maira Kalman

Finding Lincoln

Collections

Nova Britannia. London: Printed by Samuel Macham, 1609. A609a (detail)

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