A collection of promotional and educational comic books

In the Collection

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One of the newest additions to Special Collections is a trove of 139 promotional and educational comic books donated by Rob Galford ’74. Mainly aimed at influencing public opinion, burnishing a company’s public image, advertising a product, or promulgating a government message, promotional comics shrewdly cloaked their mission in the popular comic book form. But instead of featuring the sagas of superheroes, they told more prosaic tales.

"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Lutnick Library's Quaker & Special Collections.

Photo: Patrick Montero.

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drift wood on a beach beneath a cloudy sky
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Theo Anderson Photographs: The Great Lakes Landscape 2010 to 2016

Theo Anderson Photographs: The Great Lakes Landscape 2010 to 2016

Through April 26, 2020
Atrium Gallery, Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center

This exhibit gathers 30 of photographer Theo Anderson's large-format color-pigment photographs of the Great Lakes, part of his larger American Episodes series, as a subject commensurate with his capacity for wonder. Details »

Wood, Lake Superior, Whitefish Point, Paradise, Michigan, 2013. Color pigment print, 20 x 13.33"

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Tri-Co Philly participants inside the Masonic Temple
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
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Through the Tri-College Consortium, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore students take classes at all three schools and frequently collaborate on extracurricular activities.

Now in its third semester, the Tri-Co Philly program is educating students on pressing issues through an enlivening set of classes bolstered by extracurricular experiences in the city of Philadelphia.

Spring 2020 Tri-co Philly students during a tour of the Masonic Temple, Library & Museum. Photo by Cole Sansom '19.

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