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June 21, 2022
Laura Chilton is the David Center for the American Revolution Project Cataloguer. Over the next two years, she will be cataloging not only David Library...
June 13, 2022
In a letter written in the 1920s to Rockefeller Institute director Rufus Ivory Cole, Joseph Leidy—nephew of the famed Philadelphian with whom he shared a...
June 6, 2022
The Long Expedition set out from the Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburgh on May 3, 1819, with goals to both exert American control of western territories...
May 26, 2022
Philadelphia, PA, [May 27, 2022] – Thanks to a generous donation by Graham Arader and Lori Cohen, five rare botanical watercolors, valued at $1.75 million...
May 25, 2022
The American Philosophical Society is pleased to welcome new Members elected to the Society in 2022. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments...
May 23, 2022
If you have not yet visited the 2022 exhibition Becoming Weatherwise, our new team of Museum Guides and Managers is just one additional reason to...
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...