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Yom Kippur War Newspaper Clippings Collection on Philadelphia Jewish Community Response, 1973-1974 (inclusive)

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.48 linear feet (2 boxes)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

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Yogaratnakara, circa 1750

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1 volume

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Book manuscript, written about 1750 in Pali-Sinhalese on the prepared leaves of a talipot palm. It is a copy of the famous work on Sinhalese medicine originally compiled several centuries before. The painted wooden covers decorated with the sacred bo tree symbols are old, but the binding cord is modern after an early type by a native artist. Item was donated with a contemporary stylus of the type that could have been used to write the text on the palm leaves. (Museum catalog number 961-MISC) Reference: Wade, Ella. "A Curator's Story of the Mütter Museum and College Collections." Transactions and Studies of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Fourth Series 42, no.2 (October 1974): 152.

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

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Yerkes family papers, 1791-1993 (inclusive)

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1.4 linear feet

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The Yerkes family in Hatboro, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, dates back to the early 1800s. They were retail merchants, preachers, politicians, lawyers, hotel owners, medical doctors, farmers, and teachers. The Yerkes family papers, 1791-1993, contains deeds, speeches, correspondence, marriage certificates, newspapers and clippings, an account book, and photographs.

Held at: Millbrook Society [Contact Us]

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Yellow Fever Epidemic Correspondence, 1794-1799 (inclusive)

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1 folder

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In 1793, the yellow fever epidemic gripped Philadelphia, followed by smaller outbreaks in 1794, 1797, and 1798. Over 5,000 residents died during the first outbreak. At this time, the nation's capital was located in Philadelphia. To avoid the "universal terror," George Washington and Congress fled the city for the outlying suburbs. However, most residents did not have the means to re-locate. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), a Philadelphia physician, refused to abandon the city. Rush believed the outbreak stemmed from Philadelphia's unsanitary conditions and rotting vegetables. He performed bloodletting procedures on infected patients, curing about 6,000 people. While Rush was adamant that he had identified the origins of the disease and developed its panacea, it would be another century until the epidemic was linked to a mosquito bite, and a half-century more until a cure was developed. African Americans also played a vital role in attending to the sick. African Americans were believed...(see more)

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

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Yehudit Shadur biblical papercuts, 1976-1983 (inclusive)

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.3 linear feet

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Yehudit Shadur (1928-2011) was a Jewish folk art and decorative artist, author, and printer, known for reviving the practice of Jewish papercutting. The Yehudit Shadur biblical papercuts consist of fourteen biblically themed papercuts, dating from 1976 to 1983.

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

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Yearly Meeting Extracts from their Minutes, 1732-1842, 1971 (inclusive)

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0.63 linear ft. (2 document boxes)

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The collection contains copies of extracts of minutes of meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1732-1799. Topics include church unity and discipline, the growth of Quakerism, slavery, Native Americans, temperance, education, and religious doctrines.

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

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Yearly Meeting Epistles and Extracts, 1668-1944 (inclusive)

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2.1 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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Contemporary copies of epistles and extracts of Yearly Meeting minutes, of Meeting for Sufferings, and of Women Friends, of London, Dublin, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia, Rhode Island from 1698-1944.

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

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Yearly and Monthly Meeting minute extracts, 1759-1887

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0.25 linear ft. (8 folders)

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

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Yeandle Collection of Film Star Photographs, 1918-1949 (inclusive) 1932-1947 (bulk)

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2 items, 91 volumes, and 13.95 linear feet

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consists of scrapbooks of publicity photographs of American motion-picture actors and actresses, mainly of the 1930s and 1940s, collected by Mrs. A. M. Yeandle.

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

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Ye Unofficial Guide to Political Change at Haverford College, 1992

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0.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

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