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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...
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...