APS Library
May 16, 2022
In 2013, Ellen Lehman, a generous donor to the Library who has given us many works on the Arctic and its peoples, gave us Two...
May 9, 2022
Header Image: Presbyterian Hospital Surgical Alumni (1955). Apgar is fifth from left, in a white coat. Courtesy of Mount Holyoke College and National Library of...
May 2, 2022
Before I joined the Manuscripts Processing team at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum in 2019, I was lucky to gain insight into the...
April 25, 2022
Word lists of Indigenous languages are a very common form of documentation among the APS’s archival collections. At first look, these lists seem like the...
April 18, 2022
The David Rittenhouse Papers are now digitized in their entirety and available to view in the APS’s Digital Library. The collection contains around 30 objects...
April 11, 2022
In a previous blog post, I drew attention to newly described African materials in the American Council of Learned Societies on Native American Languages (ACLS)...
April 4, 2022
Prior to the 1854 Act of Consolidation, which incorporated several districts in Philadelphia County into the City of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties was its own district...
March 28, 2022
One day this past winter, I opened a large cardboard box containing elegant scientific instruments: objectives, or magnifiers, which were contained in their own smaller...