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Watery Grave of the Week: The Horrors of Water
“Horrors of Water– …” Call Number: AB85 C15 L870p The Days’ Doings, November 5, 1870, p. 12.
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R is for Rare Book Cataloging
ot all the books in the Culture Class Collection have decorations, but the ones that do are an absolute pleasure to page through. In the archives world (my area of expertise), although goosebumps still rise on my arms when I see a letter from a founding father, I am now able to suppress the squeals […]
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Signers Day
It’s challenging to try and pick out just one unique item from our collection to celebrate Independence Day. In 1776 the University of Pennsylvania was located just a few blocks away from Independence Hall and several of those present at the Second Continental Congress had ties to the University. It seems fitting then to feature […]
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Watery Grave of the Week: The Timely Rescue
From Emerson Bennett’s Dollar Monthly Call Number: RBC AP85 Em356 860b
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Surprise Sketches
Today’s post again turns from the treasures in our special collections stacks to our general collections to provide a glimpse at a unique volume. As with the annotated Mussolini book from a few weeks ago, this item is not unique in the sense that it is the only known copy of a text but rather […]
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Stokowski’s Podium
This week the Philadelphia Orchestra is commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of Leopold Stokowski’s appointment as music director with a series of concerts in the Academy of Music. In honor of the occasion, there will be an exhibit on display in the lobby of the Academy, featuring several items from the holdings of the Penn Libraries: […]
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