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    Where did she find the time? : The Very Industrious Life of Elizabeth Fee

    kelinkbaldridge
    Oct 26, 2022

    Elizabeth Fee was a professor, historian, and major figure in the history of science, medicine, and public health in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Over the last six months, while delving into the tangible remnants of her life and work, I have also learned that she was an attentive mentor, an uplifter, a […]

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    Learn the Law with Bernard G. Segal

    ewittrig
    Oct 19, 2022

    When I first walked around the Biddle Law Archives as a project archivist, I kept seeing boxes with “Segal” written on the outside in faded cursive. I started counting the number of boxes I came across and quickly lost track. I opened a few of the boxes and saw folders labeled with “Lawyers Committee for […]

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    Everyone Has a Grandmother

    Kenneth Cleary
    Oct 7, 2022

    As an archivist, I have learned that collections will often surprise you. In the case of the Doshia Mae and William M. Blackmon photograph collection, I find it interesting how it is both unusual and entirely typical of collections of historical family photographs I have seen. Many people will likely recognize the types of scenes […]

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    The Marvelous Mrs. Rubinstein 

    Kenneth Cleary
    Oct 5, 2022

    I probably would have never heard of Frankie Rubinstein if not for her relationship to Alvin Rubinstein, a distinguished political science professor who taught at Penn for over forty years. When I first began looking through a collection of Rubinstein related diaries, journals, and correspondence, the expectation was that it would provide valuable insight into […]

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    If Today Is Sunday, This Must Be 1798

    Amey Hutchins
    Sep 28, 2022

    A section of a diary kept between 1797 and 1800 by the Quaker farmer Jacob Peirce recently joined the collections of the Penn Libraries as Oversize Ms. Codex 2079, thanks to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.  Peirce was a busy man, but he found time to write brief entries about the work of the […]

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    Fiddle Music, Fishing and Dreaming of Michigan

    Anna Juliar
    Sep 14, 2022

    As a new project processing archivist at Penn Libraries, I had the distinct pleasure of beginning my term at Kislak by processing the H. Owen Reed papers (1920-2016), gifted to Penn by his grandson. Herbert Owen Reed (1910-2014) was an American composer, musician, music educator and author. Born in Odessa, Missouri to musical parents (his […]

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Welcome to Unique at Penn, part of the family of University of Pennsylvania Libraries blogs. This space will feature descriptions and contextualization of items from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. The site focuses on those materials held by Penn which are in some sense “unique” – drawn from both our special and circulating collections, whether a one-of-a-kind medieval manuscript or a twentieth-century popular novel with generations of student notes penciled inside. See the About page for more on the blog and to contact the editor.

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