The Penn Library collections at 250 : from Franklin to the Web

Folger bibliographic ID: 115492
Folger call number: Z733.P416 P466 2000
Folger holdings ID: 110394

General notes

Essays published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania

Contents

A library in retrospect / Michael T. Ryan -- Henry Charles Lea and the libraries within a library / Edward M. Peters -- The Furness Memorial Library / Daniel Traister -- The case for American literary manuscripts / by Nancy M. Shawcross -- Philadelphia's musical legacy / Marjorie Hassen -- Architecture books in the service of learning : persuasion and argument in the Perkins Library / William B. Keller -- Alchemy, metallurgy, and pharmacy : Edgar Fahs Smith and the history of chemistry / Lynne Farrington -- The Daniel Garrison Brinton Collection / John M. Weeks -- The professionalization of wisdom : the legacy of Dropsie College and its library / Arthur Kiron -- The Penniman-Gribbel Collection of Sanskrit Manuscripts / David N. Nelson -- The Present : a postscript / Dennis Hyde

Extended title: The Penn Library collections at 250 : from Franklin to the Web

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 University of Pennsylvania. Library University of Pennsylvania

subject: Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912
subject: University of Pennsylvania. Library
subject: University of Pennsylvania
associated with: Mosher, Paul H
associated with: Ryan, Michael T
associated with: Peters, Edward, 1936-
associated with: Traister, Daniel
associated with: Shawcross, Nancy M
associated with: Hassen, Marjorie, 1956-
associated with: Keller, William B. (William Bradford), 1950-
associated with: Farrington, Lynne
associated with: Weeks, John M
associated with: Kiron, Athur
associated with: Nelson, David N., 1951-
associated with: Hyde, Dennis