The San Francisco Public Library will present a new exhibition, “Innocents Abroad: Travels with the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit & Humor.” Opening Sunday, April 1, the exhibit features materials from the library of the late San Francisco bibliophile Nat Schmulowitz, an attorney also known as an authority on Jewish humor. Schmulowitz traveled the world collecting humor books, some 22,000 in all.
Travel journals, scrapbooks, letters, postcards, and humor books from Europe, the Middle East and Asia will be on display. Schmulowitz (1889-1966) bequeathed his collection to the library.
“Innocents Abroad” will be on display through May 31 in the Skylight Gallery of the San Francisco Main Library,
100 Larkin St., S.F. All programs at the library are free. For information, call (415) 557-4277.