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11.30.09Raymond Biswanger Slide Collection at UPenn Rare Books LibraryThe University of Pennsylvania Rare Books Library has a series of excellent image collections on their website for anyone to view. I stumbled upon the Raymond Biswanger collection of literary landscapes today, which absolutely blew my mind. Biswanger's hobby was photographing the places that authors either visited during their lifetimes or wrote about in their novels. Featured are picture collections of Poe, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and the Brontes, among others. I highly recommend the pictures taken of Poe's romps around Philadelphia, shot in the 1950's.
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11.30.09The Devil in the City of Brotherly Love: Dr. H.H. Holmes in PhiladelphiaI read Devil in the White City by Erik Larson while living in Chicago and went on a mission to visit the sites associated with the book. I went to the Museum of Science and Industry to visit the remaining site of the World's Fair, I visited Daniel Burnham's elevated buildings in the Loop, and I took a bus down to the corner of 63rd and Edgewood, the site of serial killer H.H. Holmes' "Murder Castle," a three-story, block long structure that held multiple soundproof rounds, lime pits, and a crematorium -- all for the purpose of disposing of his ...
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11.29.09Independence HallGingerbread Independence1229 Originally uploaded by erglantz
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11.29.09Interesting Philadelphia Literary Odds and Ends: #1Poet Laureates with Ties to Philadelphia William Carlos Williams Joseph Auslander Maxine Kumin Caldecott Medal Recipients With Ties to Philadelphia Trina Schart Hyman David Wiesner Maurice Sendak Books With Broad Street in the Title Walking Together Forever: Broad Street Bullies Then and Now The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera The Jewish Community Around North Broad Street Broad Street Bully Walking Broad: Looking for the Heart of Brotherly Love Books With Camac Street in the Title Murder on Camac Books Called The Waffle Man: And Other Memories of South Philadelphia That Inexplicably Cost $455 Dollars And Have Unknown Binding The Waffle Man: And Other Memories of South Philadelphia
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11.27.09Amsterdam Bookstorellibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam - HDR Originally uploaded by MorBCN
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11.27.09Gothic Mysteries in the City of Brotherly LoveBy the 1840's, Philadelphia was the epicenter of the gothic novel. In addition to Edgar Allan Poe, Philadelphia was home to writers Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland Focus, Robert Montgomery Bird, and George Lippard, all of whom explored the lurid underbelly of American life. A new exhibit at the Library Company explores Philadelphia's role in gothic fiction throughout the 19th century, paying particular attention to the novelists who lived here and wrote about the city. Charles Brockden Brown wrote successfully about Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic and was one of the first literary stars of the gothic movement. My favorite Brown trivia bit is this: He lived in a ...