Tag: Penn Rare
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“A Book Is Best! Absolutely!”
Presented without comment, jacket copy from the first American edition of Australian writer Charlotte Jay‘s thriller The Voice of the Crab (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), held in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness at Penn’s Kislak Center (Schimmel Fiction 6057): A Book Is Best!Absolutely! It really is.…
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Postcard from Ramonaland
I recently cataloged an early twentieth-century postcard in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness of potential interest to both deltiologists and aficionados of the mythology of Southern California. The image on the card is a square sepia photograph of a Native American woman seated with her hands in her…
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The World through Ursula Sternberg’s Eyes
One of my favorite parts of my job as an archivist is to be able to step into the shoes of someone long gone and see the world through their eyes. This probably stems from my girlhood (and if I am honest, adulthood) crush on Atticus Finch, who told Scout, “you never really understand a…
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The World of Nadar … at your fingertips
Research collections are not usually my favorite collections to process … I recognize their usefulness; but I miss the personal components that allow me to get to know the creator and the worlds in which they lived. The Thomas Waldman research collection on Nadar, however, is amazing … it is a French intellectual history class…
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Japanese Soldiers and Civilians during the Second Sino-Japanese War
In 1937, the Empire of Japan invaded the Republic of China, setting off the Second Sino-Japanese War. This conflict–later a part of the much larger Pacific War, the Asian theater of World War II–was the result of many years of Japanese imperialist expansion into Chinese territory, which was fragmented and under the control of various…
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Lemons or Lemonade? Thomas H. Jones picks Lemonade
It will probably come as no surprise to faithful readers of this blog that I have fallen in love again. My newest historical boyfriend is Thomas H. Jones, a Black soldier in the 4407th Quartermasters Service Company who served in Europe during World War II. We know, from plenty of evidence, that Blacks were not…
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