Visual Culture Program News

Wm. A. Selser, Bee Farmer and Breeder of Italian Bees & Queens. Blossom Nectar and Beeswax. Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia: Craig, Finley & Co., ca. 1900).

A Bee Farmer’s Ode to Summer

August 15, 2018/by nscalessa
Aunt Phebe, Mcaboy's, N.C. [graphic].

African Americans and Lost History

September 18, 2017/by nscalessa

Jersey Wash Day

August 7, 2017/by nscalessa
Queen & Co. Standard Eye Colors (Philadelphia: Queen & Co., 1891). Chromolithograph.

Visual Culture and Disability: The Continuing Influence of Common Touch

February 24, 2017/by nscalessa
Case of historical materials related to mathematics and natural history in the nineteenth-century education of the blind. Complements Teresa Jaynes, Gift #5, 2016. Photo by Concetta Barbera.

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind Comes to a Close

February 21, 2017/by nscalessa
Oblique view of extended tunnel book A View of the Tunnel under the Thames, as it will Appear When Completed  (London: S. E. Gouyn, 1828).

Curator’s Favorite: A Tunnel Book by Any Other Name …

July 13, 2016/by nscalessa
Link to Exhibit, Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the BlindExhibit, Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Common Touch: An Artist’s Multi-Sensory Exhibition Exploring the History of the Education of the Blind at the Library Company of Philadelphia

June 7, 2016/by nscalessa
Reception, Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind. Two visitors interact with a sculpture of an owl.

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

April 21, 2016/by nscalessa
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