Tag: Manuscripts
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Old Friends Reunited
Earlier this month, Middle East Studies Librarian David Giovacchini brought a Turkish manuscript to the Special Collections Processing Center for cataloging. David had already created the core of a catalog record for the manuscript, identifying the author, text, and the source manuscript from which this manuscript had been copied. But there was also a bit…
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The Titanic … remembering those who survived
When I think of the Titanic sinking, my first thoughts go to the 1,500 people who died in the freezing cold North Atlantic waters on the night of April 14, 1912. Everything we know about the disastrous event comes from the 700 people who survived, but oddly enough, their accounts have always seemed only to…
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Humor during World War 1: French Propaganda in the archive of Richard Norris Williams
Written by Aleth Tisseau des Escotais, archival processor The Special Collections Processing Center is pleased to welcome Aleth Tisseau des Escotais. Aleth, a student at École Nationale Superiéure des Sciences de l’Information et des Bibliothèques in France, is working with us from February to April, as part of her training in libraries. She will be…
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If John Mauchly was a superhero …
… he would have been called DATAMAN! What he did with data (collecting, creating, analyzing, and saving) certainly required skills that are beyond the typical human. To provide a little background, Mauchly was the co-inventer of the first computer, ENIAC, which was developed here at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering in 1946. …
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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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