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January 30, 2020
This winter’s weather has been remarkably mild in Philadelphia, so it may be the perfect time to share an artifact in our Print Collection showing...
January 24, 2020
I met one of my favorite collection items at the APS on the day I interviewed for my job as assistant conservator. Patrick Spero, the...
January 17, 2020
Now available to view in the Digital Library, the Samuel George Morton Papers have been digitized in their entirety. Samuel George Morton (1799-1851, APS 1828)...
January 10, 2020
Susan Laquer joined the APS last May after 21 years as archivist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As we reviewed applicants for the archivist...
January 6, 2020
The APS Library & Museum is a proud partner of National History Day Philly (NHD Philly). This year, middle and high school students are presented...
January 3, 2020
When I visited the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library in mid-August 2019, I was on a mining expedition for documents that would help me determine...
December 17, 2019
Top image: Surveyor's Instruments, c. 1765 APS. This post is part two in Erin Holmes's series "A Few Technical Items: Questions about 18th Century Surveying...
December 12, 2019
As an interdisciplinary scholar, I am a historian of a lot of things. I am a historian of Early America, slavery, social, cultural, and political...