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Comics on bookshelf.

East Asia Comics Collection

The East Asia Comics Collection embodies the Libraries’ strategic priorities to collect and preserve global voices, and to make accessible materials related to borders and belonging. 

Canal and village view in Hylpen (Dutch: Hindeloopen), Fryslân, with village homes and the spire of the Hindeloopen Grote Kerk in the background.

Frisian Collection

Penn is home to the largest library collection of Frisian-language literature outside of Europe.

Portrait photograph of Marian Anderson looking to her left

Marian Anderson Collection

Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was world-renowned as a contralto. She also challenged racial barriers in the United States.

The front cover of a family album compiled by Florence Josephine Craig Albrecht in 1888

Otto E. Albrecht Collection

Otto Edwin Albrecht (1899-1984) was an internationally known music bibliographer and professor of romance languages and musicology at the University of Pennsylvania.

About a dozen books and pamphlets with colorful covers laid out on a table.

Philadelphia Independent Bookstore Collections

The Libraries work with select local bookstores to collect items that were were written or published locally, that represent the books marketed/sold to specific local communities, or that reflect the interests of local cooperative centers with goals aligned with those of the University.

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Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive

The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive is among the most important resources in the world for the study of Jewish culture, folklore, history, linguistics, and literature through the medium of sound.

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