| 0 items selected.
Select all items:
|
|  | Hands-On Tours | James Joyce & Irish Authors | Wed, 06/19/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | The Rosenbach is well known for the works of James Joyce and Bram Stoker, but the “English Literature” collections include many other... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Besotted: Wine and Words | Fri, 06/21/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Yes, besotted can mean ‘drunk,’ but it’s also a feeling of infatuation and fascination. On this tour we’ll handle intoxicating artifacts... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Shakespeare | Sun, 06/23/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | When is Shakespeare not Shakespeare? And what is a folio, anyway? After seeing some of Shakespeare’s earliest printings and books that... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Reading Group | The Last of the Mohicans | Repeats every month on the last Wednesday until Thu Jun 27 2013 . Wed, 06/26/2013 - 6:00pm - 7:45pm | The Last of the Mohicans—extremely popular when published and still read throughout the world today –was foundational in shaping popular... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson | Fri, 06/28/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Mathematician and cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll. This tour will explore both... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Founding Fathers | Sun, 06/30/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | From George Washington’s earliest known letter (he was just 17!) to a meticulously folded page containing a scientific observation made by... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Sleuths & Spies | Fri, 07/05/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | The game is afoot to ferret out the realm of detective and spy literature at the Rosenbach. Your mission, should you choose to accept it,... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Love Letters | Fri, 07/12/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Join us for this rare peek into some of the most personal and emotional writing in our collections. From the aching yearnings of poet John... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | The Sea | Sun, 07/14/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | “Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever”, from Moby Dick. Throughout history authors have used the Sea as a... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Founding Fathers | Fri, 07/19/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | From George Washington’s earliest known letter (he was just 17!) to a meticulously folded page containing a scientific observation made by... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Early Hebrew Books | Sun, 07/21/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Scattered among the Rosenbach’s collection of 15th-century, printed books known by bibliophiles as incunabula are among the first books... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | The Growth of Stoker’s Dracula | Fri, 07/26/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Get up close and personal with Bram Stoker's hand-written notes for the novel as Rosenbach staff discuss what it takes to create an... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Made in Philadelphia | Sun, 07/28/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | This intimate tour focuses on decorative arts made here in Philadelphia between 1750 and 1850. Visitors will be invited to look closely and... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Magic: From Hermes to Houdini | Fri, 08/02/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Incomprehensible incantations, mysterious symbols, and sleight-of-hand illusions abound on this tour about the history of magic in print.... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Marianne Moore, Modernist Poet | Sun, 08/04/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Marianne Moore, like Pablo Picasso, broke free of tradition and reassembled the pieces in a new and sometimes confounding way. In this tour... | farrar | Yes | |
|  | Hands-On Tours | Charles Dickens | Fri, 08/09/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Even if you’ve never read a line of Charles Dickens’s work, you know some of his creations. In this tour we’ll look at the original... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Besotted: Wine and Words | Sun, 08/11/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Yes, besotted can mean ‘drunk,’ but it’s also a feeling of infatuation and fascination. On this tour we’ll handle intoxicating artifacts... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Marianne Moore, Modernist Poet | Fri, 08/16/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Marianne Moore, like Pablo Picasso, broke free of tradition and reassembled the pieces in a new and sometimes confounding way. In this tour... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Founding Fathers | Sun, 08/18/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | From George Washington’s earliest known letter (he was just 17!) to a meticulously folded page containing a scientific observation made by... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | The Sea | Fri, 08/23/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | “Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever”, from Moby Dick. Throughout history authors have used the Sea as a... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Love Letters | Sun, 08/25/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Join us for this rare peek into some of the most personal and emotional writing in our collections. From the aching yearnings of poet John... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson | Fri, 09/06/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Mathematician and cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll. This tour will explore both... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Marianne Moore, Modernist Poet | Sun, 09/08/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Marianne Moore, like Pablo Picasso, broke free of tradition and reassembled the pieces in a new and sometimes confounding way. In this tour... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | Magic: From Hermes to Houdini | Fri, 09/13/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Incomprehensible incantations, mysterious symbols, and sleight-of-hand illusions abound on this tour about the history of magic in print.... | farrar | Yes | |
| | Hands-On Tours | James Joyce & Irish Authors | Sun, 09/15/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm | The Rosenbach is well known for the works of James Joyce and Bram Stoker, but the “English Literature” collections include many other... | farrar | Yes | |