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December 20, 2017
The American Philosophical Society offices and library will be closed Saturday December 23 through Monday January 1, 2018. The Society will re-open for normal business...
December 19, 2017
After thoroughly documenting Ben Franklin’s 1760 Book of Common Prayer (see posts one and two of this series), I was ready to begin conservation treatment...
December 12, 2017
While accompanying Theodore M. Davis on archaeological trips to Egypt between 1889-1913, Emma B. Andrews provides rich insights into the field of archeology at the...
December 5, 2017
In April 2016, Benjamin Franklin descendant Mai Duane Harper and her husband, James A. Harper, presented the APS Library with a lectern-sized edition of the...
November 28, 2017
As part of the Center for Digital Scholarship’s Open Data Initiative, we have been reformatting APS Library collections as computational data. We’re happy to announce...
November 21, 2017
As a young man, Benjamin Franklin famously wrote his own epitaph: The Body of B. Franklin, Printer, Like the Cover of an old Book, Its...
November 14, 2017
Behold! A French translation of the Transactions of the Royal Society of London, printed in Paris, and bound by a provincial German binder. One could...
November 7, 2017
In commemoration of the 275 th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society’s founding in 1743 and the birth of its long-time President, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826...