Repository: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Caspar Wistar lectures on chemistry, circa 1790 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: A volume comprising undated manuscript notes on chemistry kept by Christopher Heydrick, circa 1790.

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Maurice the Maestro Rotenberg record collection, circa 1928-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
Abstract:: Maurice Rotenberg (1897-1952) owned Maurice's, an "Old World" style restaurant wired by technicians from Philco to pipe classical music throughout the dining rooms from 1948 until about 1962. Popular with musical celebrities, the restaurant was run for ten years following Rotenberg's death. This collection consists of sixteen recordings that were probably among the 30,000 classical records that were played in the Rotenberg's restaurant.

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Levant, album of prints and watercolors, circa 1840-1850 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume (0.2 linear foot)
Abstract:: A album consisting of 23 plates and 1 photograph created by Armenian, Turkish artist Bogos Tatikian between 1840 and 1850.

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Guy R. Lambert scrapbook, 1935 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box (0.2 linear foot)
Abstract:: A scrapbook created in 1935 by British soldier Guy R. Lambert consisting of documentation, letters, and photographs concerning the May 31, 1935 Quetta Earthquake and its aftermath.

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Eugene Labiche travel diaries, "Voyage en Italie", 1834 january 26-august 15 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear_foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Eugène Labiche (1815-1888) was a French comic playwright known for popular and amusing comedies who traveled to Italy in 1834 at the age of 18. He recorded the daily experiences of his journey through the south of France, Italy, and Switzerland in 44 rough notebooks and 2 fair copy notebooks. His friend, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), more commonly (and much more famously) known as Nadar, helped Labiche make a fair copy of a portion of his travel diary from his notes and provided a few illustrations in the 2 volumes.

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Eddie Cass collection of traditional drama material, circa 1990-2014 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.8 linear feet (4 boxes)
Abstract:: Eddie Cass (1937-2017), was a British scholar whose studies encompassed many disciplines, but focused particularly on social history, folklore and traditional drama, especially mummers' plays. This collection contains twenty-two bound volumes of photocopies of articles, periodicals, play scripts, and manuscript essays, relating to all aspects of traditional drama.

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Fanfare for a festive occasion : for antiphonal brass choirs with percussion, circa 1981 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.33 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Richard Wernick (1934-) is an American composer and professor of music composition who spent most of his career teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Fanfare for a festive occasion : for antiphonal brass choirs with percussion is a manuscript score written by Wernick for the inauguration of University of Pennsylvania president Sheldon Hackney, circa 1981.

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Der Doktor und der Patient: komisches Duett für 3 Baesse mit begleitung des Pianof, 1845 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803-1883) was an Austrian lawyer, diplomat, author, composer, and singer. Der Doktor und der Patient: komisches Duett für 3 Baesse mit begleitung des Pianof is a music manuscript by Vesque von Püttlingen, written in 1845.

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Ada Rehan papers, circa 1879-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes
Abstract:: The collection consists primarily of correspondence addressed to Ada Rehan but also includes some memorabilia, such as an analysis of Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew in Ada Rehan's hand, clippings, dedications, menus and invitations, and programs and playbills.

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Benjamin Rush lecture notes, 1783-1810, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 4.2 linear feet (5 boxes)
Abstract:: The Benjamin Rush lecture notes consist of 34 notebooks kept by medical students at the University of Pennsylvania, which record the content of academic lectures delivered by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). Rush, a socially and politically prominent physician who lived and practiced in Philadelphia, served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1769 to 1813. The handwritten lecture notes in this collection (recorded between 1783 and 1810) present the era's conventional medical wisdom on the causes, symptoms and cures of a range of diseases and disorders.

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