Photography, Ironwork, Dracula in Philadelphia

Enchanted Tableaus: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Collection of Maurice Sendak

Sendak's collection includes some of the earliest and most sought-after photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Calvert Richard Jones, Gustave LeGray, Roger Fenton, Henri LeSecq, and Nadar, among others.

Devil with a Hammer in his Hand: The Monsters of Samuel Yellin
Featuring the ironwork creations (monsters, gargoyles, & devils) of Philadelphia's foremost artisan in iron. The Yellin forge still operates today in Bryn Mawr, PA, under the direction of Yellin's granddaughter Clare.

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Release the Bats: A Dracula Film & Cultural Festival
A two-week festival unearthing incarnations of vampires in literature, film, visual and performance art, with Bram Stoker's Dracula as its centerpiece. The Rosenbach holds Stoker's research notes and outlines for Dracula. The annual festival is a collaboration with Film at the Prince Music Theater.

A separate Release the Bats press release with further details and a complete schedule of events is available upon request.

Please call or email if you would like more information. Press interviews and digital images are available.

Sugirtha Vivek Stathis
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-2010 DeLancey Place
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: 215.732.1600, ext. 123
Fax: 215.545.7529
Web: www.rosenbach.org