Month: September 2015
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“I Do Not Propose To Sit Idly Down And Be Made To Suffer”: The Curious Case of the Two Mrs. Pigotts
Among the volumes presented to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Caroline F. Schimmel as part of her Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness is an inscribed copy of That Dakota Girl by Stella Gilman, a Western romance published in 1892 to tepid reviews: “The pony that always figures in stories of Western…
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What’s missing in magazines
What is it that you read when you read a print copy of a magazine in a library or as a digital photograph from an online source? Though plenty of strange things happen to monographs, bindings are removed, plates sometimes missing or not scanned, fold-outs mangled, periodicals are particularly fluid material texts, often intended to…
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Photographs of Faith: A Souvenir of the 1937 Eucharistic Congress
Written by Rive Cadwallader, archival processor This week, as Philadelphia prepares for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, I have been researching another significant Catholic gathering: the National Eucharistic Congress of India held in Chennai (then Madras) in 1937. A beautiful scrapbook in the Kislak Center’s collection documents this event, and illuminates the magnitude of…