Record Source: University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Photograph album of a Black Kansas family, 1920s-1940s (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.75 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: This depression-era photograph album of a Black Kansas family features fifty photographs of the family at work, home, and on the road in early 1930s Kansas.

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

Frank Carey papers, 1969-1984 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear feet (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Frank Joseph Carey (1933-1984) was a PhD student in music, who researched 16th century vocal music at the University of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1984. This collection documents his sixteen years of doctoral research from 1969 to 1984, with notes on music theory, analysis, musical transcriptions, and drafts of his dissertation.

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

Sid Neff Jr. collection on Ernest Hemingway, 1997-2003 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. Collection comprises newsletters, news articles, conference documents and correspondence related to Ernest Hemingway. A copy of Robert M. Myers manuscript, Ernest Hemingway: A Compendium of the Persons and Characters in His Fictions, Life, and Times in also included.

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

Colonel Thomas W.E. Christmas collection of Korean War military photographs, 1949-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Colonel Thomas William Ellsworth Christmas was a surgeon in the Army Medical Corps specializing in eye, ear, nose and throats. His collection of photographs comprises images of military hospital installations taken near Pusan during the Korean War. Photographs show hospital facilities, personnel, other army facilities, images of Prison of War Compound #93, nurses, surgeons, Korean Horticultural and the Research Institute in Tongnae.

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

John Mitchell journal, circa 1818-1834 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This journal documents John Mitchell's intimate thoughts on death, depression, and vaccination.

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

Mary Ralph remembrance album, 1835-1855 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Mary Ralph's remembrance album focuses on religion from her time as a missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and New York City 1835-1855.

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

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

Extent:: 3 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract:: 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]

Collection of business invoices, 1838-1917 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: Collection of over 50 invoices, receipts, and engraved and pictorial letterheads from a wide range of American businesses. Businesses represented in the collection include bakeries, dry goods merchants, tobacco shops, patent medicine dealers, railroads, carpet sellers, hardware stores, lumber dealers, iron works and others mostly in Baltimore and Philadelphia, circa 1860s-1880s.

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

Sam Frank photographs, circa 1950s-1970s (inclusive)

Extent:: .8 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Sam Frank (1920-2007) was a Jewish photographer who documented Israel and its people from the 1950s to the 1970s. The collection consists of almost 1500 images (in the forms of print, contact print/sheet, and negative) of many aspects of life in the newly established state of Israel.

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

The Robinson School, Puerto Rico photograph album, 1945-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.17 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: This photograph album chronicles an unidentified woman's time exploring and working in Puerto Rico as a teacher for the Robinson School in 1945-1946.

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

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