Month: November 2013
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Happy Thanksgiving, circa early 1960s
Holiday cards are always fun finds in archival collections and handmade cards are even better! While I am quite used to finding Christmas cards, thanksgiving cards are a bit less common. So, the day before Thanksgiving in 2013, I share a thanksgiving greeting from Virginia Mauchly (born 1954) to her mother, Kathleen R. Mauchly. Viriginia,…
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Lincolniana and the Electoral College
As this week marks the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address it’s only fitting to highlight a collection here at Penn which is full of material relating to Abraham Lincoln for which we just completed a new online guide. The Gordon Block Collection of Lincolniana (Ms. Coll. 941) was compiled by the Philadelphia lawyer and…