Month: August 2015
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Delivering Justice in the Mail: 6 Postcards on the Dreyfus Affair
[Editor’s note: Today’s post is by David Murrell, a rising junior at Penn studying History and Political Science. Fascinated by all things French, he has spent this summer interning at the Kislak Center and happily sifting through piles of Dreyfus Affair postcards] At first glance, postcards don’t appear to be particularly unique. Mass produced and intended…
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Learning Mathematics in North America
Written by John F. Anderies, archival processor The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan collection of Americana is now available for research. Besides their fine work building the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan collection of Early American Judaica, available to researchers at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Kaplans built a small collection of…
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Catalogs, Colophons, and Curses from the Rāmamālā Library in Bangladesh
Written by Benjamin Fleming Last year I began a project to create an inventory and digital sample of manuscripts from the Rāmamālā Library in Comilla, Bangladesh, sponsored by the British Library’s Endangered Archive Programme and co-sponsored by Penn Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS). My team and I created an inventory of close to…