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"My Desire of Breathing a Free Air”: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Letter as an "enemy alien,” December 1941

The recently processed Trustees of the University records improves researchers access to the minutes and supporting documents that document the administrative history of the University dating back to the establishment of the Academy and Charity School. Meeting minutes from 1749 through 1969 can now be accessed online. The records also chart the changes in how […]


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The International Appeal of Musicals

Growing up, I was a theater kid, but not in the traditional sense of the term. I grew up watching the Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story on repeat. In high school, I played violin in the pit orchestra for my community theater group for the musicals Oliver!, Les Misérables, […]


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Scrapped: The Curious Case of Penn’s Missing 2,000lb Computer

In 1970, researchers at the Society for Data Educators set out to find the first computer at an educational institution. The society’s founder, Enoch Haga, wrote to the University of Pennsylvania archivist claiming that the “first American difference engine,” and therefore, “the first ‘computer’ to be owned by an American university,” was at Penn (UPP […]


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How to Get Around 19th Century Philadelphia

The Moses A. Dropsie papers mainly consists of legal cases and documents pertaining to the city of Philadelphia, its infrastructure and its transportation system. Moses A. Dropsie (1821-1905) was a lawyer, president of two railroad companies, and the main benefactor of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. The railroad companies that Dropsie headed were […]


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Jews in Medicine: From Riga, Latvia to Pune, India

The Wahrman collection of Jews and medicine consists of over 1,000 items pertaining to Jewish hospitals, pharmacies, nurses and physicians in Europe, Africa, South Asia and Israel, dating from 1862 to 1986. With so much material within such a large geographical range, there are so many interesting items to see in this collection, from quarantine […]


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