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H. Ehlers Ahmednagar prisoner of war camp photograph album, circa 1914-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.2 linear feet (1 box)

Abstract:

Ahmednagar, a city and fort in India, was the site of one of Great Britain's prisoner of war camps during World War I. This camp held both prisoners of war and German and Austrian civilians from 1914 and 1918. This photograph album, belonging to H. Ehlers, contains 54 photographs that document life at Ahmednagar. The landscape surrounding the camp; the buildings; the inhabitants (both military and civilian prisoners); and the prisoners' pastimes, espeically sports and cultural activities are particularly well represented.

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

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Photograph album by a British soldier, 1945 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 volume

Abstract:

Photograph album by an unknown British soldier in 1945. The album contains black-and-white snapshots of the soldier's journey from Italy to Quetta, Pakistan.

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

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Sammlung Hogarthischer Kupferstiche (William Hogarth images, engraved by Riepenhausen), 1794 (inclusive)

Extent:

9 volumes

Abstract:

Between 1794 and 1834, the printer Joh. Christ. Dieterich published in Göttingen a set of volumes called Ausfürliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche. It included included twelve volumes of images by the English painter and egraver William Hogarth, along with popular commentaries on the images written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a local Physics professor. This collection is comprised of nine of the twelve graphic volumes. The plates are "good copies" of Hogarth's originals by the German engraver Ernst Riepenhausen.

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

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American and British ballads, circa 18th-19th centuries (inclusive)

Extent:

1.1 linear feet (3 boxes)

Abstract:

Broadside ballads are single sheets of paper printed on one side with song lyrics. These ballads were about love, religion, legends, current events, etc. and were printed and circulated in large quantities. They were popular from the 16th through the 19th centuries in England, Ireland, and North America.

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

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Martha Crary Halpern Research Papers, tbd (inclusive)

Extent:

31 linear feet

Abstract:

None available.

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

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Undergraduate Alumni Records, Non-graduates, Undated

Extent:

7 boxes

Abstract:

This finding aid contains a list of former undergraduate students of Princeton University who did not graduate, and whose dates of attendance are unknown.

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

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Charles B. Shaw Papers, ? (inclusive)

Extent:

0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Abstract:

Copy of "Seeing Things in Print" Popular Lectures on Typographic History

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Correspondence and Printed Material about Gettysburg National Cemetery

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The collection contains printed material, clippings and correspondence on the development of the Gettysburg (Pa.) Soldiers' National Cemetery during the American Civil War. Correspondence is mainly between John R. Bartlett, the Secretary of the Cemetery Commission and David Wills, President of the Cemetery Commission but other state representatives are also included.

Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Philadelphia Surveyor John H. Levering Ledger

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This folio itemizes an interesting view into the northwestward expansion of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in an era of growth in the mid-19th century. What is shown by the surveying entries is the incorporation, by the 1854 Act of Consolidation, of Roxborough Township and the Borough of Manayunk into the City of Philadelphia's 21st Ward. A list of landowners requiring surveying services reflects on Lehigh University's collection of 18th and 19th century industrial collections with client names such as Wetherill, Packer, Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and the Schuylkill Navigation System. Also, a surprisingly large list of women landowners is displayed within the ledger entries.

Held at: Lehigh University Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Blair Birdsall Papers, Inclusive Dates

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This collection contains the technical and professional documents of consulting engineer Blair Birdsall. Most of the collection are documents pertaining to the multitude of bridges he worked on, including the Golden Gate, Chesapeake Bay, and Brooklyn Bridges, as a consulting engineer or as a design engineer. The collection spans from 1900 to 2002 covering his entire career and also early Steinman Boynton Gronquist & Birdsall and John A. Roebling Sons Engineering companies.

Held at: Lehigh University Grant Projects [Contact Us]