Month: July 2014
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A “Loochooan” New Testament
Okinawa conjures up many images for people in the 21st century. To mainland Japanese, it might be an exotic vacation destination in their own backyard, a place to feel both at home and abroad at the same time. For some Americans, who have our own colonized Pacific paradise in Hawaiʻi, it is a snapshot of…
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Curtis W. Davis collection on Leopold Stokowski
Written by Ben Rosen, archival processor The University of Pennsylvania already houses a wealth of material related to the orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski. His papers are preserved in Ms. Coll. 381, his musical scores, transcriptions, and arrangements in Ms. Coll. 350 and Ms. Coll. 351, and the research materials of his biographer Oliver Daniel in…
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Padraic and Mary Colum Papers
Written by Jack Dwiggins, archival processor Among the many surprising finds in the Gotham Book Mart collection acquired by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2008 was a trove of papers of Irish literary figures Padraic and Mary Colum. Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, and folklorist, known primarily for his…
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An Independence Day Selection
As readers of this blog know, I like to always do a July 4th post about something related here at Penn. However, instead of picking a particular item or collection as in previous years I thought I’d dip into our rich collection of more than 100 manuscript diaries and journals for some first-hand accounts of Independence…
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The Stewart Culin collection of advertisements
Written by Kevin Lee, archival processor Before the conclusion of my final semester at Penn I had the pleasure of working on the Stewart Culin collection of advertisements. This collection consists of two scrapbooks and 93 loose advertisements, largely for products which were sold at businesses located in Philadelphia, collected between 1884 and 1886 by…