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Marcel Duchamp Research Collection, 1933-2003, undated (inclusive)

Extent:
9 linear feet
Abstract:
The Marcel Duchamp Research Collection is comprised of ephemera, photographs, clippings, writings and correspondence related to the artist Marcel Duchamp, his life, work, and legacy which was collected and compiled by the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Held at: Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives [Contact Us]

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Records of the Chemical Education Material Study Program, 1960-1991 (inclusive) 1963-1983 (bulk)

Extent:
1.8 linear feet (1 record box and 1 hollinger box)
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Correspondence, newsletters, newspaper and journal articles, exams, reports, and other miscellaneous materials documenting the development of the Chemical Education Material Study Program, which were collected and maintained by the program's Executive Director David W. Ridgway.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Barbara Berney research material on health care reform and environmental issues, 1949-2008 (inclusive) 1975-2001 (bulk)

Extent:
3.4 linear feet (4 boxes)
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Barbara Berney is an associate professor of health policy and management at the CUNY School of Public Health. Her work focuses on health disparities, occupational health and safety, and environmental issues. This collection is comprised of materials related to Dr. Berney's research interests in health care reform and environmental issues and may include research related to her work on the documentary Power to Heal.

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

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University of Pennsylvania Dental Medicine Library miscellaneous manuscripts, 1841-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.04 linear feet (3 boxes)
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This material comprised part of the Dental Library's historical collection. It contains material on the history of the Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute School of Dentistry University of Pennsylvania, the profession of dentistry, and biographical information on dentist Thomas W. Evans.

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

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Russell Stetler papers, 1937-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.1 linear ft. (5 boxes)
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This collection contains materials related to Russell Stetler's work regarding the death penalty, primarily related to him videotaping Robert Harris' execution in 1992 which was then submitted as evidence for the Fierro v. Gomez case, which outlawed the use of lethal gas in executions.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Dr. Michael Somogyi Collection, 1912-1981 (inclusive) 1924-1970 (bulk)

Extent:
20.0 linear feet (24 boxes)
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The Dr. Michael Somogyi Collection contains the papers of Hungarian-American clinical chemist Dr. Michael Somogyi. The collection contains laboratory notebooks, research notes, reprints of published articles, photographs, lecture slides, and audio tapes. Also included to a lesser extent are pages from a scrapbook.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Ursula Sternberg-Hertz papers, 1923-2014 (inclusive) 1950-2000 (bulk)

Extent:
23 linear feet (39 boxes)
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Ursula Sternberg-Hertz (1925-2000) was a Philadelphia based artist who lived in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, and Canada before immigrating to the United States in 1971 with her husband, conductor Jonathan Sternberg. The collection documents her artistic career, with artwork ranging from rough sketches to finished pieces, using acrylics, charcoal, markers, pen-and-ink, stamps, watercolor, and other experimental mediums. She produced artwork on paper, metal, fabric, and leather; in sketchbooks; and on objects such as lampshades and boxes. In addition to her artwork, there is also family and personal material; correspondence; diaries, including an extraordinary run of her "visual diaries" from the early 1940s and from the 1970s until her death; and material related to her exhibits.

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

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South Asia press photographs, 1935-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:
.4 linear feet (1 box)
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During the mid-to-late 1970's, South Asia, most especially India and its immediate neighbors, experienced a period of civil and political unrest. This collection consists of French press photos concerning events in South Asia from 1935-1994, with particular emphasis on the turbulent years of the mid-to-late 1970s, in which India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh experienced overlapping civil, political, and environmental crises.

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

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Archives of Form Magazine, 1965-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:
7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet
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Form was an international magazine focused on concrete poetry and kinetic art. Three Cambridge-educated academics, Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, and Stephen Bann, edited the magazine and produced ten issues from 1966 to 1969. The collection includes extensive correspondence between editors, subscribers, and contributors, along with editorial, financial, and administrative files spanning the entire existence of the magazine.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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James G. Spady papers, 1920-2020 (inclusive) 1980-2020 (bulk)

Extent:
12.5 linear feet (21 boxes and 10 3.5 inch floppy disks, 3 dvds, 54 compact disks.) and 2.0 gigabytes
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James Garland Spady (1944-2020) was a writer, activist, journalist, and historian, and is credited for being one of the first scholars to document and study the evolution of Hip Hop. Broadly speaking, this collection reflects Spady's expansive interest in Black history and culture, particularly music, and is comprised of both his own writing and material that he collected on these topics. The collection contains notepads and notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, books, a large variety of articles and essays, interview transcripts, periodicals, audio compact discs, digital media, and ephemera. The collection primarily documents his professional and intellectual work from roughly 1980 until the end of his life, but very little is revealing of his personal life.

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

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Dana Richardson collection of Constant Vauclain material, 1898-2008 (inclusive) 1930-2000 (bulk)

Extent:
5 linear feet (8 boxes)
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The Dana Richardson collection of Constant Vauclain material contains sheet music, audio cassettes, essays, notes and analysis of music, correspondence, newspaper clippings, event programs, photographs, poetry and lyrics. Andre Constant Vauclain (1908-2003) was a composer and professor of music who developed a new system of composition that he called, "syntonality." Dana Dimitri Richardson (1953-), is a composer and music theorist who studied under Constant Vauclain from 1971 to 1976.

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

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Heinz Heinemann Papers, 1939-2005 (inclusive)

Extent:
5.5 linear feet (10 boxes.)
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Lectures, correspondence, abstracts, event programs, course notes, publications, overheads, presentations, slides, and reports belonging to German-American chemist Heinz Heinemann.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Papers of Jerome B. Schapiro, 1954-1986 (inclusive) 1983-1986 (inclusive)

Extent:
9.66 linear feet (7 boxes)
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Organizational files collected and maintained by American chemical engineer and dry cleaning industry executive Jerome B. Schapiro. The files in this collection document Schapiro's involvement with several policy making and advocacy organizations concerned with textile product and safety standards, especially as applicable to the dry cleaning industry.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers, circa 1886-1990, undated (inclusive)

Extent:
18 linear feet
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The Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers are comprised of some personal papers of Marcel Duchamp as well as published material documenting the artist and his work that were compiled and organized by his widow, Alexina Duchamp. The collection is comprised of approximately 800 personal photographs; a small portion of Duchamp's correspondence; his lecture notes and transcripts; vital records; transcripts of several interviews with Duchamp; and published material concerning the artist.

Held at: Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives [Contact Us]

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Ashley Bryan papers, 1823-2019 (inclusive) 1928-2019 (bulk)

Extent:
85 linear feet (146 boxes)
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Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) was an artist and storyteller best known for his award-winning children's book illustrations with particular emphasis on African folktales and African-American spirituals. Bryan authored, illustrated, published, and distributed his first book in Kindergarten, later graduating from Cooper Union and Columbia University, being awarded a Fulbright to study at the University of Freiburg, before becoming a professor at Dartmouth College. The collection documents his lifelong devotion to the arts including sketchbooks, artwork, and especially materials relating to the publication process of over sixty book projects. There is also material relating to his professional engagements; certificates, awards, diplomas, and plaques relating to his many achievements; and personal and family materials, notebooks, photographs, greeting cards and postcards, school children thank you cards and artwork, and research files and ephemera. Also included are foundational...(see more)

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

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Department of Politics Records, 1921-2017 (inclusive) 1921-1978 (bulk)

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39 boxes, 4 items, and 1 websites
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The Department of Politics at Princeton University is one of the University's largest academic departments, offering undergraduate and graduate courses touching on nearly every aspect of the discipline of political science. The Department of Politics records document the activities of the Department of Politics and its faculty from the time of its founding in 1924 until the mid-1960s, and contain correspondence, course syllabi and notes, examinations, and subject files.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

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Jean Labatut Papers, 1915-1983 (inclusive) 1920s-1970s (bulk)

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102 boxes and 62.5 linear feet
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The Jean Labatut Papers consists of the professional papers of Jean Labatut (1899-1986), which include correspondence with prominent twentieth-century architects, landscape architects, and designers, the architectural files for his major and minor projects, and the administrative papers and teaching materials that he accumulated while he was the Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture at Princeton University (1928-1967), the position for which he is best remembered. Also included are Labatut's family papers, containing albums of photographs compiled by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, while she helped to operate a convalescence home founded by her husband in France for soldiers in World War I.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Margaret Snyder Papers, 1950-2021 (inclusive) 1970-1990 (bulk)

Extent:
85 boxes and 2 items
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Dr. Margaret Snyder was actively involved in women's economic and development issues in various regions of the world for more than three decades. She served as advisor to Kenya and East African Women's Seminars, Regional Advisor of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Vice President of the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund, co-founded the African Training and Research Center for Women, and was the Founding Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The papers document Dr. Snyder's career, the organizations she worked for, and the projects conducted to help women across the globe.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

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Richard C. Holbrooke Papers, 1912-2017 (inclusive) 1968-2010 (bulk)

Extent:
40 boxes
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Richard C. Holbrooke was an American diplomat who led negotiations at the Dayton Accords for peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995. The Richard C. Holbrooke Papers contain Holbrooke's subject files, records of public statements, correspondence, writings and drafts of writings, articles and periodicals, and audiovisual materials.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

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French Press Photographs, 1930s-1990s (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear foot (1 box)
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Consists of several hundred print photographs (most are captioned) primarily from various French news outlets and agencies documenting people and events of numerous countries and geographic regions spanning the mid to late 20th century.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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