Month: March 2013
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Moment in Time
Just a brief post this week inspired by the University Archives Digital Photo Collection hosted by the Penn Libraries. I could get lost for hours browsing through some of the 7,000+ photos from Penn’s history available online, finding images of everything from Zane Grey in his Penn baseball uniform, 1896 to the women who programmed…
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Crusoe Conundrums
Written by Ellen Williams Hensle A rich tradition of illustration has developed around the novel Robinson Crusoe in its nearly 300-year publication history. A few years ago, Penn added a special edition of the groundbreaking novel to its collection: an “extra-illustrated” edition that chronicles the novel’s history as an illustrated text. The anonymous creator of…