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October 18, 2019
While working in the oversize collection, I came upon a drawing (pictured above) without a call number to connect it to its collection or accession...
October 18, 2019
While working in the oversize collection, I came upon a drawing (pictured above) without a call number to connect it to its collection or accession...
October 16, 2019
Inspired by its 2020 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is organizing a daylong symposium that explores the nature...
October 11, 2019
The APS has received the papers of physicist Freeman Dyson (APS 1976). In May 2019, Curator of Manuscripts Charles Greifenstein visited Dyson at the Institute...
October 7, 2019
Photo of Wyck by Robert Buzzard Photography The collection provides invaluable primary source material for American History topics c.1690-1970, including Yellow Fever, Horticulture, Brewing, Meteorology...
October 3, 2019
The American Philosophical Society holds many of the papers relating to Elisha Kent Kane, a 19th-century doctor and explorer. In the lead-up to Halloween, I’ll...
September 27, 2019
Athelstan Spilhaus was not only the owner of a truly unique name, he was also a geologist, oceanographer, inventor, science communicator, and president of The...
September 20, 2019
By Sean Keenan Bryn Mawr College, 2019 APS Curatorial Intern Benjamin Franklin’s intellect swept him up in the tides of scientific knowledge of the 18th...