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Exhibitions

Current and upcoming
collage, header, APS,

Treasures of the American Philosophical Society

2018
Online Exhibition
map of great alachua

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic

April 12–December 29, 2019
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Exhibitions archive
map of great alachua

Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic

April 12–December 29, 2019
104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
image of bespectacled woman

Mildred Cohn: Trailblazer

2018
collage, header, APS,

Treasures of the American Philosophical Society

2018
Online Exhibition
Image of woman in a long dress showing a child the detail of a large, flowered bush.

Enlightened Conversation in the "Kennebec Kingdom" of Sarah Manning Vaughan (1753-1834)

2015
Online Only
Greuze portrait of Benjamin Franklin

In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society

April 13-November 15, 2018
104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA
Eastern State

Eastern Apps: Visualizing Historic Prison Data

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
peale self portrait

Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia

April 7-December 30, 2017
104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA
Baruch Blumberg in lab

A Journey of Inquiry: Exploring the Scientific Process through the Manuscript Collection of Baruch S. Blumberg

2017
Center for Digital Scholarship
advertisement for prize applications

America's First Scientific Award: The Magellanic Premium of the APS

Online only
19th-century coal miners outside of mine

Old Country in the New World: Saint Clair, a 19th-Century Coal Community

Online only
Children watching a plane go by

Too Near Where History Is Being Made: Henry Howard Houston II in a Time of War

2015
Center for Digital Scholarship
Drawing of groundhog

No Taxonomy without Representation

2013
Lobby exhibition
Photograph of seated man with spirit woman behind him

Beyond the Grave: A Brief History of Spirit Photography

Online only
Letter with burned edges

Colonization in the Foulke Papers

Center for Digital Scholarship
Drawing of people reading pamphlet

Joining the Fray: Mapping a World of Paine

2015
Center for Digital Scholarship