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September 5, 2023
The Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society supports a diverse community of scholars working on a wide-range of projects in fields including early...
August 28, 2023
Daily work as a cataloger at the APS involves frequently consulting bibliographies for citation references. One fundamental source that I cite from is A Dictionary...
August 21, 2023
Header image: Detail from handwritten page of Florence Rena Sabin’s list of women in science. APS. In my work on the American Philosophical Society’s latest...
August 14, 2023
By: Joseph DiLullo and Sabrina Bocanegra The Charles Thomas Jackson Papers are on the road to being accessible. The papers began arriving at the American...
August 7, 2023
HMS Jersey drawing is from Recollections of Life on the Prison Ship Jersey . APS. The American Philosophical Society houses the Sol Feinstone Collection, a...
July 31, 2023
The Center for Digital Scholarship’s project Visualizing Women in Science highlights forgotten women scientists in the collections of the American Philosophical Society. In making this...
July 24, 2023
I found a box with a note saying “Duane Papers” attached to it, containing conserved manuscripts, photos, and engravings that were waiting to be placed...
July 17, 2023
In 2021, the APS Library & Museum’s Dr. Franklin: Citizen Scientist exhibition featured a copy of the 1737 Poor Richard’s Almanac open to page 4...