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PennRare and Unique at Penn … better together!
I am delighted to announce that Unique at Penn has a new look and new-ish content! And we are super excited to think that future content will show the full spectrum of our special collections community … from those who acquire, to those who make available, to those who teach with and use the material. […]
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Alexanders & Anderson
On February 8th, the PBS series American Masters aired a brand-new two-hour documentary on Marian Anderson called “Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands.” The production staff reviewed over 600 photographs, 400 documents and 18 audio recordings from Penn Libraries Marian Anderson Collection. The result is a visually and aurally rich sotribute to one […]
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“A Book Is Best! Absolutely!”
Presented without comment, jacket copy from the first American edition of Australian writer Charlotte Jay‘s thriller The Voice of the Crab (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), held in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness at Penn’s Kislak Center (Schimmel Fiction 6057): A Book Is Best!Absolutely! It really is. […]
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Postcard from Ramonaland
I recently cataloged an early twentieth-century postcard in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness of potential interest to both deltiologists and aficionados of the mythology of Southern California. The image on the card is a square sepia photograph of a Native American woman seated with her hands in her […]
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The World through Ursula Sternberg’s Eyes
One of my favorite parts of my job as an archivist is to be able to step into the shoes of someone long gone and see the world through their eyes. This probably stems from my girlhood (and if I am honest, adulthood) crush on Atticus Finch, who told Scout, “you never really understand a […]
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The World of Nadar … at your fingertips
Research collections are not usually my favorite collections to process … I recognize their usefulness; but I miss the personal components that allow me to get to know the creator and the worlds in which they lived. The Thomas Waldman research collection on Nadar, however, is amazing … it is a French intellectual history class […]
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