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Tales from the Crypt: Cemetery-Related Notes on Library Company of Philadelphia Research

Tales from the Crypt: Cemetery-Related Notes on Library Company of Philadelphia Research of Philadelphia," was designed to disseminate awareness of the breadth and depth of the Library Company's visual culture collections, the importance of visual materials as primary sources, and the methods scholars could pursue to perform graphically oriented research. The presenters were Alison Klaum, PhD candidate in English at the University of Delaware; Aaron Wunsch, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Program; and Anne Verplanck, associate professor of American and heritage studies at Penn State University. The presenters described the collections they used and why, the insights and conclusions they formed from their work with the materials, and the outcomes from their research. Klaum, currently completing her dissertation "Pressing Flowers: Floral Discourses and the Development of American Print Culture, 1790­1860," discussed her work at the library for a chapter of her dissertation focused on the historical importance of the interrelationship of graphic depictions and textual descriptions of flowers in understanding nineteenth-century botanical education. Wunsch focused on the Library Company's defining role in forming his understanding of the iconography and construction of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, which he has been researching for over a decade. Verplanck outlined her research at the library for her current project, "The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Penn State University Press

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of Philadelphia," was designed to disseminate awareness of the breadth and depth of the Library Company's visual culture collections, the importance of visual materials as primary sources, and the methods scholars could pursue to perform graphically oriented research. The presenters were Alison Klaum, PhD candidate in English at the University of Delaware; Aaron Wunsch, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania's Historic Preservation Program; and Anne Verplanck, associate professor of American and heritage studies at Penn State University. The presenters described the collections they used and why, the insights and conclusions they formed from their work with the materials, and the outcomes from their research. Klaum, currently completing her dissertation "Pressing Flowers: Floral Discourses and the Development of American Print Culture, 1790­1860," discussed her work at the library for a chapter of her dissertation focused on the historical importance of the interrelationship of graphic depictions and textual descriptions of flowers in understanding nineteenth-century botanical education. Wunsch focused on the Library Company's defining role in forming his understanding of the iconography and construction of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, which he has been researching for over a decade. Verplanck outlined her research at the library for her current project, "The

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Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies – Penn State University Press

Published: Jul 19, 2012

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