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1 photograph; 10 x 12 cm (4 x 5 in)
Depicts two students (one being an African American) studying in an alcove

1 photograph; 10 x 12 cm (4 x 5 in)
Depicts two students (one being an African American) studying in an alcove

Portrait of Justin Winsor (1831-1897), author, librarian, and first president of the American Library Association.

digital color photograph of interior of Fisher Fine Arts Library

A color photograph of the exterior front of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania

Aphorism: "O blessed letters! That combine in one all ages past and make one live with all / By you we do confer with who are gone, and the dead--living unto counsel call." Samuel Daniel

"Haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfungiam praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur." Cicero, Arch. 7

"These studies sustain…

"Art hath an enemy called ignorance."

Aphorism: "There is no time so miserable but a man may be true." Shakespeare, Timon, IV.iii.462