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Penn Library Store Recent Publications |
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December 10, 2013, Volume 60, No. 16
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Below is a sample of items available at the Penn Library Store. They canbe purchased in the Exhibition Office, room 502, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center with cash or check only. Credit card sales must go through the online store at www.pennlibrarystore.com
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Prehistoric Wessex: Towards a Deep Map —exhibition catalog. Curated by David Platt, Kathryn Schaeffer and Jon Shaw. When novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) fictionalized the region of England in which he lived, he revived the name of a long extinct Anglo-Saxon kingdom. His Wessex was a rich combination of old and new, showing rural life under assault from industrialization. The region’s monuments that were a key element of his semi-imaginary geography had already been the object of study by artists, antiquarians, historians and archaeologists. Materials from Penn’s collections exhibit the ways in which people engaged with Wessex before Hardy’s time and the role Wessex has continued to play in our imagination since. List price: $40. |
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A La Mode—Parisian Fashions 2014 Calendar—Journal des dames et des modes, published in Paris between 1912 and 1914, reflected the taste of the highest echelons of Parisian society. The publisher of the Journal differentiated his publication from other early twentieth-century fashion magazines by using original illustrations of clothes by top designers, drawn by the leading commercial artists of the day. The last issue was released on August 1, 1914, on the eve of the First World War. This 13-month wall calendar features illustrations selected from the nearly complete run of this work in Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. The calendar is designed by Andrea Gottschalk. List price: $14.99. |
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A set of 12 notecards are available featuring Images of the Holyland selected by curator Arthur Kiron from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography at the Penn Librarie. The Lenkin Collection contains more than 3,700 original photographs of the Holy Land taken from 1850 to 1937. List price: $12.99.
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Another set of 12 notecards features six different images of horses from the Fairman Rogers Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Fairman Rogers (1833-1900) was a Penn alumnus (AB 1853, AM 1856), professor of civil engineering (1855-1871), co-founder of the School of Veterinary Medicine and internationally recognized horseman. These images are from works in the collection, given to the University and consisting of medical guides as well as books on the shoeing, harnessing, training, riding and racing of horses. The collection serves as an important resource for research into the role of the horse in the technical, scientific and social evolution of Europe and North America through the end of the nineteenth century. List price: $12.99. |
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