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The Rosenbach is a Philadelphia museum and library located within two 19th-century townhouses. Established as a testamentary gift in 1954. [1] [2] The historic houses contain the donated collections of Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach and his brother Philip H. Rosenbach.
Rosenbach expanded on this collection throughout the years and donated it to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1947, where it formed the beginning of the library's collection of early American children's books. [6] The Rosenbach Company originally operated out of the entire building at the former location of Philip Rosenbach's gift shop.
He then returned to Philadelphia to work with A. S. W. Rosenbach, the bookseller and bibliophile who attained a worldwide reputation. at his rare book firm, the Rosenbach Company. Wolf joined the United States Army during World War II (1943–1946), and was stationed in Europe where he participated in the recovery of ancient and rare books ...
The 1974 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography was devoted to the fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies." [ 4 ] The university's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in collaboration with their Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts are the current location of the lectures.
In 1968, Sendak lent the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, the bulk of his work including nearly 10,000 works of art, manuscripts, books, and ephemera. From May 6, 2008, through May 3, 2009, the Rosenbach presented There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak. The major retrospective of over 130 pieces pulled from the museum's vast ...
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
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Rosenbach may refer to: The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia; Rosenbach, Görlitz, a town in eastern Saxony, Germany; Rosenbach, Vogtland, a town in western Saxony, Germany; Rosenbach, Austria, a village in Carinthia; Rosenbach (White Elster), a river of Saxony, Germany, tributary of the White Elster