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Online Exhibitions and Symposium Proceedings

A PACSCL ONLINE EXHIBITION
Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections
This online exhibition features images of about half of the 80 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts on display March 10 - May 13, 2001 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and September 26, 2001 - January 6, 2002 at the Frist Gallery of the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee.
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A PACSCL ONLINE EXHIBITION
'Beautifully situated on the River Schuylkill': Views of the U.S. Naval Asylum and Hospital from Materials in PACSCL Member Collections. [view exhibition]

Online Exhibitions at Member Library Websites

• Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, University of Pennsylvania Library.
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - University of Pennsylvania Library. An extensive online archive.
• Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Household Words: Women Write from and for the Kitchen - University of Pennsylvania Library
• The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830: selected from the collection of Harris N. Hollin - University of Pennsylvania Library
• John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Treasures in the Penn Library -- University of Pennsylvania Library
• Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - University of Pennsylvania Library. Related online resources include a photo index and a finding aid for Miss Anderson's papers, available via the library's main collections page.
• Eugene Ormandy: A Centennial Celebration - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Networking Artists & Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry (exhibition catalog in PDF format -- requires Adobe Acrobat reader) -University of Pennsylvania Library
• Robert Montgomery Bird: Writer and Artist -University of Pennsylvania Library
• A Chef and His Library: An Exhibition Selected from the collection of Fritz Blank - University of Pennsylvania Library
• "Agents Wanted:" Subscription Publishing in America - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Composing: Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Petrarch at 700: An exhibition of books and manuscripts from the collections of Cornell University Library and the University of Pennsylvania Library
• Sister Carrie: "A Strangely Strong Novel in a Queer Milieu" - University of Pennsylvania Library
• The Penn Library Collections at 250 - University of Pennsylvania Library
• Gallery of Images from the Academy of Natural Sciences
• Nature's Great Masterpiece: The Elephant - Academy of Natural Sciences
• A Delight for the Eye and the Mind - Books on Mollusks and their Shells - Academy of Natural Sciences
• What Eyes Would Be - Academy of Natural Sciences
• Foul and Loathsome Creatures - Academy of Natural Sciences
• Exhibits at the Balch -- Now merged with The Historical Society of Pennsylvania,The Balch's archived exhibitions include selections from the Museum Collections; Preserving Polonia in America; Ethnic Images in the Comics; Ethnic Images in Advertising; Ethnic Images in Toys and Games; Rites of Passage in America; Building the Gold Mountain: Philadelphia's Chinatown.
• Leading Bryn Mawr: An Exhibition in Honor of Nancy J. Vickers - Bryn Mawr College
• Alice and Beyond: English Children's Books, 1860-1940 - Free Library of Philadelphia
• Everyman His Own Doctor: Popular Medicine in Early America - Library Company of Philadelphia
• The Album of Amy Cassey, 1833-1856 (African-Americana) - Library Company of Philadelphia
• Ardent Spirits: The Origin of the American Temperance Movement - Library Company of Philadelphia
• The Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection - Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Department
• A selection from The Vintage Postcards of Philadelphia Collection of The Print and Picture Collection - Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Department
• The John Sartain Collection in The Print and Picture Collection - Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Department
• Philadelphia Trolleys: The John Gibb Smith, Jr. Collection Print and Picture Collection - Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Department
• Philadelphia Architects and Buildings - Athenaeum, University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, other database partners
• American House Museums in the 21st Century: An Athenæum of Philadelphia Symposium - Athenæum of Philadelphia
• Treasures of the American Philosophical Society
• The Hook and the Book - Library Company of Philadelphia
• The Genesis of Republicanism: The Birth and Growth of the Grand Old Party, 1854-1872 - Library Company of Philadelphia
• The Low Road North: Sir Hubert Wilkins' 1931 Polar Expedition - American Philosophical Society
• Southern Nature: Scientific Views of the Colonial American South - American Philosophical Society
• The Old Country in the New World - American Philosophical Society
• Books, Printers, and the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1600 - Bryn Mawr College
• "The Very Best Woman's College There Is": M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus - Bryn Mawr College
• The Sargent Portrait: M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent - Bryn Mawr College
• Dedicated to the Cause: Bryn Mawr Women and the Right to Vote - Bryn Mawr College
• lllustrated Botanical Books - Bryn Mawr College
• Emblem Books - Bryn Mawr College
• European Travel Accounts Printed before 1850 - Bryn Mawr College
• Bryn Mawr Plays: Dramatic Productions at Bryn Mawr College 1889-1920 - Bryn Mawr College
• It's the Ticket: Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding in the British Isles and the United States - Bryn Mawr College
• Foundations of the Faith: Sixteenth Century European Reformers and Their Texts - Presbyterian Historical Society
• Witness the Good News: Our Mission Heritage in Korea - Presbyterian Historical Society
• Presbyterian involvement with "One Great Hour" - Presbyterian Historical Society
• Agricultural Missions in India: "The Gospel and the Plow" - Presbyterian Historical Society
• Church and Community: The Berean Enterprise - Presbyterian Historical Society
• Philadelphia Printers in the Era of Benjamin Franklin - Presbyterian Historical Society
• "Hebraica Veritas?" -- Center for Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Library
• Modern Jewry and The Arts -- Center for Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Library
• "And We Have Revealed to You..." Jewish Biblical Interpretation in a Comparative Context -- Center for Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Library
• From Written to Printed Text: The Transmission of Jewish Tradition -- Center for Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Library
• Chemical Achievers: The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences -- Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Women of the Academy: Their Contribution to Science -- Academy of Natural Sciences
• Strangers in the Land of Strangers: Defining "Americans" in Times of Conflict -- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Liberty on the Anvil 1701-2001: Exploring the Legacies of Pennsylvania's Founding Charters -- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Preserving History's Light: A Concise History of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• The Fairy-tale World of Henry McCook: Illustrations of Anthropomorphic Arthropods in the 19th Century . Academy of Natural Science.
• Thomas Ustick Walter: Historic Architecture for a Modern World. Athenæum of Philadelphia.
• When the President is the Patient. College of Physicians of Philadelphia.