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Paul Schrecker collection of Austrian World War I ephemera and publications, 1914-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.8 linear feet (3 boxes)

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Paul Schrecker (1889-1963) was a philosopher and professor. There is little information on Schrecker's life during World War I, except that he appears to have been a civilian in Vienna. This collection documents a Viennese citizen's home front experience during World War I. Shrecker saved ephemeral material relating to German propaganda, German efforts to finance the war, German war heroes and memorialization of Germany's participation in World War I, prisoner of war experiences, and rationing, as well as election material from 1919.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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W.R. Harrison private journal, 1841-1886 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet (1 box)

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W.R. Harrison was a publisher's representative for A. S. Barnes & Co. and Mather, Case, Tiffany, & Burnham, who sold maps and textbooks to public and private schools and booksellers. This collection consists of a journal kept from October 14, 1841, to February 20, 1844, by W. R. Harrison as well as several items originally laid into the volume, including bills and receipts, a letter, and the lyrics to a few songs.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Diary of a trip from Egypt and Jerusalem, 1848 (inclusive)

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1 volume(s) (+ 1 leaf)

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Travel diary written by an unnamed Englishman recording his journey from Egypt to Jerusalem spanning one month in the spring of 1848. The volume contains detailed visual descriptions, societal observations, and personal perspectives of Cairo, the surrounding sights, and the journey from there to Jerusalem.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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The Lehigh Coal And Navigation Company records, 1826-1913 (inclusive) 1815-1940 (inclusive)

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5.0 linear feet

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Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Frederick P. Lee collection of World War I ephemera, 1914-1919 (inclusive)

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0.33 linear feet (1 box)

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Frederick P. Lee, an insurance agent, was born in 1880, in England. He immigrated to the United States in 1912 and lived in Santa Monica, California. A number of materials in this collection, including pamphlets and magazines, are stamped with the phrase, "With Compliments of Frederick P. Lee, Fellow of Royal Colonial Institute." As an Englishman living in the US during World War I, it is likely that Lee was interested in promoting England's role in the war and even encouraging US participation, since the US did not enter the war until 1917. The materials in this collection would have been part of that promotion/propaganda effort. This World War I collection includes magazines, serials, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, and postcards dated from 1914-1918. Most items are printed in England and concern England's role in the war.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Leroy Marcus Glodell papers, 1918-1986 (inclusive) 1939-1952 (bulk)

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3 linear feet (3 boxes)

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The Leroy Marcus Glodell papers document the wartime and post-war experience of this U.S. Army Intelligence officer and his future wife Frances Grace Knapton Consolves, during his various military assignments in the United States and Central America.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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HMS Endymion and HMS Aurora logbook, 1873 january 1-1874 may 11 (inclusive)

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1 volume(s)

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Frederik Seal Sieveking (1856-1902) was an officer in the British Royal Navy. This logbook contains daily accounts voyages of the HMS Endymion and the HMS Aurora from 1873 through 1874 in the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas recorded and illustrated by Sieveking who was, at the time, a midshipman.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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George William Brown research collection on 19th-century missionary work in India, 1882-1932 (inclusive)

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1.4 linear feet (4 boxes)

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George William Brown (1870-1932) was a professor of Semitic languages and Indology, a founding member of the Linguistic Society of America, and a missionary in India for sixteen years as a member of the Disciples of Christ. This collection consists of materials documenting Brown's career in research, writing, and teaching about religion, missionary work, and linguistics, dating from 1892 to 1932.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) World War II photograph album, 1945 (inclusive)

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0.08 linear feet (1 volume)

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This collection is composed of one volume of photos taken in India by a member of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India), W.A.C. (I), in 1945. A majority of the photographs capture local sights, mostly in Dagshai, Delhi, and New Dehli.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Thomas Hewson Bache chronological sketch of the Netherlands from the earliest times to the reign of the Emp[eror] Charles V, undated

Extent:

1 volume

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Held at: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Contact Us]