Month: May 2012
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Ann Perrin’s album is far from commonplace
[ed. note: Penn’s unique collections are used every year by countless scholars and students, beginning with today’s piece we will periodically feature posts from some of these researchers.] Watercolor paintings, pencil drawings, advice essays, and poems by both famous and obscure poets, as well as the signature of a different person on each page…they’re all…
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Mussolini’s Downfall
Since this blog aims to not only showcase items from our special collections division but also unique materials from the library as a whole, I thought it would be fitting to follow up the series of posts on the Orphan’s Asylum with one on a completely different kind of text. I am especially interested in…
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The Records of the Asylum for Orphan Girls (Part V)
In mid-January, in the midst of moving 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts during the renovation of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Penn, I received an e-mail from an agent at Pickering & Chatto, a London-based antiquarian bookseller. He was writing to offer me advance notice of two volumes of daily books and regulations…
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Records of the Asylum for Orphan Girls (Part IV)
In this penultimate post in our series on the Orphan’s Asylum records I thought I would share more about two aspects of daily life for the girls of the Asylum. I was especially pleased in reading through the records to see all sorts of interesting tie-ins with Penn’s strong collections in culinary history. See, for…
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Conundrum of the Week: Unidentified Inscription
Can you identify this inscription? Please leave a comment if you have any information about this! Thanks!
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Rare Book Cataloging at UPenn is Live!
Explore the fantastical and mystical world of Rare Book Cataloging at the University of Pennsylvania. No day is complete without fire breathing lions and knights upon flying horses!