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OPenn: Hosted Repositories

• Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0011 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia (ALF) is the steward of an important collection of art, archives, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, objects and other historic documents related to both the Union League and the Civil War. The collections include materials from the ALF, The Union League of Philadelphia, The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, The Military Order of The Loyal Legion of the United States and The Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The collections are available for research through The Heritage Center of the Union League.
• African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
  Repository ID: 0044 | Metadata format: TEI
  The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was an outgrowth of the African Church of Philadelphia founded in 1792 by the Free African Society, a mutual aid organization, established in 1787 by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen for the purpose of encouraging religion and literacy, and providing destitute members--especially widows and orphans-- with financial assistance. Absalom Jones led the congregation and became the first African American admitted to Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church when Bishop William White ordained him a deacon in 1796 and a priest in 1802. Richard Allen formed Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church which became a separate Methodist denomination. Records consist of vestry minutes, pew rents, birth and baptismal records, as well as some records of the Free African Society.
• American Baptist Historical Society
  Repository ID: 0040 | Metadata format: TEI
  As the oldest Baptist historical organization (founded in 1853), the American Baptist Historical Society serves as guardian of the largest and most diverse collection of Baptist historical material worldwide, including the archives of the American Baptist Churches, USA, the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society/International Ministries, as well as other affiliated agencies and some pan-Baptist organizations. The Society holds unparalleled resources on African American Baptists, the modern missionary movement, women's work, and the social gospel movement. Its manuscript collections include more than 1,200 collections of personal papers of missionaries, pastors, and other notable Baptists. The Society's Samuel Colgate Baptist Historical Library comprises over 40,000 volumes.
• American Philosophical Society
  Repository ID: 0043 | Metadata format: TEI
  The American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purposes of "promoting useful knowledge." In the 21st century, it serves to advance knowledge and promote scholarship in the humanities and social, mathematical, life, and physical sciences. The APS Library and Museum's collections make it among the premier institutions for documenting and exhibiting the history of the American Revolution and founding, the history of science from Newton to NASA, Native American languages and culture, and the development of American anthropology. The Library houses over 13 million manuscripts, 275,000 volumes and bound periodicals, and 250,000 images, fine art and other objects.
• Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection
  Repository ID: 0051 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Benjamin Zucker Family Collection of Ketubot, or Jewish marriage contracts, consists of 249 historical documents of exceptional provenance, written in a variety of Jewish scribal hands, on parchment or paper, many beautifully decorated and some illuminated. The collection presents intimate family heirlooms that are at the same time unique works of art and genealogical records. The range of dates spans from the 17th through the 20th centuries; the geographical expanse extends over three oceans and four continents. The collection was assembled over many decades by Benjamin Zucker, the descendant of illustrious rabbis and three generations of precious gem dealers based in Antwerp, who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to reestablish themselves in New York City. The Zucker family collection of Ketubot embodies Benjamin Zucker's profound respect for cultural differences, based on his personal experiences travelling the world and doing business with people from a variety of backgrounds and faiths. It also reflects a love for family, born out by each precious document found here.
• British Library
  Repository ID: 0047 | Metadata format: TEI
  The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and gives access to the world's most comprehensive research collection. The collection of over 170 million items includes artifacts from every age of written civilization.
• Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0003 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Bryn Mawr College Special Collections includes rare books, manuscripts, the college archives, works of art on paper, and ethnographic and archaeological objects. The rare book collection contains approximately 50,000 volumes, and includes extensive collections of late medieval and early modern works, among them more than 100 medieval manuscript volumes and more than 1000 15th century printed books. These collections are supported by a graphics collection ranging from the 15th century to the present, including 7,300 prints, 3,500 drawings, and 13,000 vintage photographs.
• Christ Church Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0034 | Metadata format: TEI
  Founded in 1695, Christ Church was the first Anglican church to be established in Pennsylvania. This fulfilled the provision outlined by King Charles II in the charter he granted to William Penn in 1681 stipulating that if twenty individuals requested an Anglican clergyman the Bishop of London would appoint one. Accordingly, thirty-nine Philadelphians came together in 1695 to form Christ Church. Located on Second Street, just north of Market Street the Church transitioned from a small frame structure in its early years to the imposing Georgian structure built from 1727-1754 that still stands on the site today. Members of the Continental Congress and early government officials worshipped here and seven signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried on Church property. When the congregation grew too large to be accommodated here the vestry built St. Peter's at the southern edge of the city in 1760 and later St. James. Those United Churches remained a unit until the 1820s and 1830s. Christ Church is an active Episcopal parish today as well as a major historic site. The records consist of vestry minutes, parish records, accounting and financial records, deeds, architectural drawings, photographs, and audiovisual materials. In addition, there are materials from parish organizations and affiliated institutions such as Christ Church Hospital, Episcopal School, Christ Church Burial Ground, and Christ Church Preservation Trust. A detailed finding aid is available on-site.
• College of Physicians of Philadelphia, The Historical Medical Library
  Repository ID: 0027 | Metadata format: TEI
  Established in 1788, the Historical Medical Library was Philadelphia's central medical library for over 150 years, serving its medical schools, hospitals, physicians and other health professionals. Today, it is an independent research library devoted to the history of medicine and the medical humanities, serving hundreds of scholars, health professionals, students and popular writers each year.
• Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  Repository ID: 0032 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Libraries at Columbia are at the heart of the University. The collections serve the research needs of the Columbia faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and the community, while providing a wealth of items for the use of scholars from around the world. The Rare Book and Manuscript Library, largest of Columbia's repositories for the special collections of the University, holds collections spanning more than 4,000 years, from cuneiform tablets to born-digital objects. Some 600,000 printed books and 17 miles of manuscripts, personal papers, and records form the core of the RBML holdings, along with well over one million photographs, prints and drawings, maps, coins, scientific instruments, playing cards, theater set models and other realia, and audio and moving image materials. The collections cover a broad range of subjects, and provide researchers with a great depth of material to study. RBML holds important early manuscripts and printed books in Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and a wide variety of other languages. Particular collecting strengths include the history of English and American literature, journalism, finance and economics, mathematics and astronomy, printing and publishing, theater and the performing arts, photography, American history, Russian and East European Emigré history and culture, Hebraica and Judaica, and Latino arts and activism. RBML is home to one of the oldest oral history collections in the country, and is also the repository for archives that support the mission of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research.
• Columbia University, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
  Repository ID: 0033 | Metadata format: TEI
  The mission of Columbia University's Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary is to identify, acquire, organize, provide access to, interpret, and preserve for the future information in the field of theology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences. One of the largest theological libraries in North America, its holdings of over 700,000 items include numerous western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Ethiopic, and Syriac materials. The collection of Syriac manuscripts in one of the largest in this hemisphere.
• Congregation Mikveh Israel
  Repository ID: 0039 | Metadata format: TEI
  Congregation Mikveh Israel (officially Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel) is also known as the "Synagogue of the American Revolution." The oldest Congregation in Philadelphia, Mikveh Israel was informally established by religious-minded Jews in British America during the 1740s, and has become the second-oldest surviving Congregation in the United States. In Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia in particular, Jews found an environment of tolerance for their religious beliefs and traditions made possible by William Penn's "great experiment." By 1775 a community of 300 strong existed in a city of 35,000. Among items in the archives of Congregation Mikveh Israel are letters written by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and a public subscription list for the 1782 building signed by Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, and other civic leaders.
• Drexel University College of Medicine, Legacy Center
  Repository ID: 0005 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center supports research and investigation of the history of women in medicine, history of homeopathic medicine in the United States, and the history of women's health. The Center is the repository for records documenting the history of the College and its predecessor institutions, including the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. Over 4,000 linear feet of materials date from 1502 to the present, with the bulk of the materials ranging from 1848-1990.
• Drexel University, Archives and Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0004 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Drexel University Archives and Special Collections acquires, preserves and makes available records, manuscripts, visual materials and publications related to the history of Drexel University. The Archives has material related to Drexel's founders as well as Drexel students, faculty, academic departments, administrative offices, and campus organizations. The Special Collections house rare books and manuscript collections, with a focus on incunabula; the history of printing and fine press; the history of Philadelphia; the Drexel family; and the history of education.
• Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives
  Repository ID: 0035 | Metadata format: TEI
  Following the American Revolution, American Anglicans led by the Reverend William White came together to form the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania which once covered the entire Commonwealth. In 1865 and 1871 new dioceses were formed out of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Today the Diocese of Pennsylvania covers Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties. The Archives are the official repository for records of the administration of the Diocese, parishes that have closed and histories of the Diocese, spanning the period from 1784 to the present. Records included in this project are the founding minutes of the Diocese and selected records of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
• Folger Shakespeare Library
  Repository ID: 0053 | Metadata format: TEI
  Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection -- and home to major collections of other Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. The Folger welcomes millions of visitors online and in person. It provides unparalleled access to a huge array of resources, from original sources to modern interpretations. With the Folger, you can experience the power of performance, the wonder of exhibitions, and the excitement of pathbreaking research. The Folger offers the opportunity to see and even work with early modern sources, driving discovery and transforming education for students of all ages. A gift to the American people from Henry and Emily Folger, the Folger opened in 1932 one block from the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
• Franklin & Marshall College Library, Archives & Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0038 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Archives & Special Collections at Franklin & Marshall College Library organizes, preserves, and promotes the visual and written record of the college, faculty and student scholarship, and the digital and special collections of the library. Collections include German-American imprints, manuscripts and rare books, posters, maps, prints, newspapers and photographs, as well as the permanent historical record of Franklin & Marshall College and its related institutions: Franklin College, Marshall College, and Franklin and Marshall Academy.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0023 | Metadata format: TEI
  With more than 6 million visits to its 54 locations and 9 million online visits annually, the Free Library is one of Philadelphia's most widely used educational and cultural institutions. The Free Library's Special Collections feature music, maps, drawings, photographs, fine art prints, and one of the largest rare book collections in an American public library. The Rare Book Department houses thousands of illuminated pre-modern manuscripts and cuttings; first editions and manuscripts of important American and British writers, including some of the largest collections of Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe; early American children's books and original artworks by children's illustrators; hundreds of incunables; and books, manuscripts, and maps relating to the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the Americas.
• German Society of Pennsylvania
  Repository ID: 0017 | Metadata format: TEI
  Founded in 1764, The German Society of Pennsylvania is America's oldest German organization. Its Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library, housed in a beautiful 19th century reading room, holds one of the largest private collections of German-language books in the U.S. The German American Collection contains a wealth of material documenting all aspects of German American life, beginning with the first settlers in Germantown in 1683. In addition to books, the library houses sizable collections of 19th century Philadelphia German newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and manuscripts.
• Gloria Dei Church
  Repository ID: 0041 | Metadata format: TEI
  In the 17th century Swedish settlers landed on the banks of the Delaware River establishing churches in Wilmington, Tinicum and by the mid-17th century in Wicaco outside of what would become Philadelphia. That latter church, Gloria Dei, is Pennsylvania's oldest congregation. The existing church was built between 1698 and 1700 and originally served a Swedish Lutheran congregation. The church today is part of the Episcopal Diocese and a national historic site. Archival records scanned as part of this project include vestry minutes, registers, financial correspondence between the original Swedish parishes and the churches in Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey as well as their "miscellaneous records."
• Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0006 | Metadata format: TEI
  Quaker & Special Collections contains Haverford College's world-renowned Quaker Collection, College archives, rare books and manuscripts, and fine art. The world-renowned Quaker collections illuminate Quaker life, faith, and practice from the earliest days of the Society of Friends to the present day and in many parts of the world. Archival holdings document the history and operations of Haverford College from its founding in 1833 to present. Other strengths include literature, natural history, science, American History, and a small but interesting collection of 13th through 19th-century illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic. The collections are open to all.
• The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
  Repository ID: 0048 | Metadata format: Custom
  The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), located at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, holds the world's largest archive of manuscript photographs in both microfilm and digital format. HMML identifies manuscript collections around the world that need photographic preservation. HMML's archives now contain more than 300,000 complete manuscripts, ranging in size from large codices of hundreds of folios to brief documents consisting of just a few leaves. Hosted on OPenn is a palimpsest leaf from HMML, SJU MS Frag 32.
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  Repository ID: 0009 | Metadata format: TEI
  The collections of Historical Society of Pennsylvania range from genealogical and family papers to business and organizational records to collections of items such as photographs, postcards, sheet music, menus, and trade cards. HSP's library contains a wealth of published material, including books, pamphlets, serials, and newspapers. Our collections span from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries, and they touch upon numerous topics, from social and economic issues during the nation's founding to the effects of the Industrial Revolution to the immigrant experience of recent decades. While our collections generally focus on Philadelphia, Eastern Pennsylvania, and the greater Delaware Valley, we also have books from other states East of the Mississippi River, maps from different parts of the world, and manuscripts from national and international leaders.
• The Huntington Library
  Repository ID: 0022 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Huntington Library is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in its fields of specialization. The Library's collection of rare books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps, and other materials in the fields of British and American history and literature totals more than nine million items. OPenn hosts one item from The Huntington Library, the *Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,(Autograph manuscript signed), 1771-1789.*
• Independence Seaport Museum, J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library
  Repository ID: 0015 | Metadata format: TEI
  Independence Seaport Museum's J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library is one of the nation's premier regional maritime research facilities. With a rich repository of regional documents, 12,000 ship plans, a significant collection of rare books and manuscripts; maps and charts; photographs, and a 15,000 volume research library, the J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library boasts an impressive range of materials. The collections are dedicated to a deeper understanding, appreciation, and experience of Philadelphia's regional waterways and the Delaware watershed area for everyone. They carry national and international significance.
• La Salle University, Department of Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0049 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Department of Special Collections in the Connelly Library houses a diverse range of materials, from 15th century illuminated devotionals to subject collections treating contemporary social issues. Bodies of work include literature, music, films, art, archival material and ephemera. The collections explore a variety of themes in aural, narrative and illustrative form. Special Collections maintains a focus on acquiring, cataloging and housing unique material that is tied to undergraduate pedagogy and is freely available to researchers. The Department of Special Collections is a proud member of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries.
• Lehigh University Libraries, Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0007 | Metadata format: TEI
  Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections serves as the repository for the University's collections of rare books and manuscripts as well as for holdings relating to Lehigh's institutional and cultural history. The catalog encompasses over 40,000 volumes, including first editions of English and American literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and represents diverse topics such as travel and exploration, natural history, and ornithology. A special focus on the history of science and technology includes an expansive assortment of material related to large-scale construction and the use of iron and steel in industrial life, as well as a collection of classic and seminal works relating to bridge building and design. University materials include official documents and publications of the school administration, papers and publications of faculty members, theses and dissertations composed by graduate students, and memorabilia from the broad spectrum of campus life.
• The Library Company of Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0012 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Open to the public free of charge, the Library Company houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art.
• Library of Congress
  Repository ID: 0042 | Metadata format: TEI
  Today's Library of Congress is an unparalleled world resource. The enormous size and variety of its collections make it the largest library in the world. The collection of more than 168 million items includes more than 39 million catalogued books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 72 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.
• Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0010 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia is the Northeast Regional Archives (Region 7) for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It carries on the work of its predecessors in the first Lutheran Church organization in America, the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States, founded on August 15, 1748 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. The archives was recognized as a part of the church organization in 1792. Collections include personal papers of Lutheran clergy, theologians, and church workers; archives of church organizations; and records of congregations.
• Palmer Family Collection
  Repository ID: 0052 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Palmer Family Collection consists of 253 images of documents, textiles, jewelry, and visual artwork connected to the life of Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa Ducarel (1758-1822), a Mughal woman who was born in modern-day Bihar, India and who died in Gloucestershire, England. This rare collection includes letters and documents in Mughal Persian, English, and French dating from the early 1780s to the early 1800s. The collection includes Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa's penmanship journal (1795-6), where she taught herself to write cursive English script and practiced the epistolary arts of an English lady. Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa cohabitated with Gerard Gustavus Ducarel (1745-1800), giving birth to several children and eventually following Ducarel and her children to England in 1784. She took on the name Elizabeth Ducarel and, unusual for relationships of this kind, she formally married Gerard Gustavus Ducarel in England in 1787. She lived the remainder of her life in England, even after G.G. Ducarel's death in 1800. After her husband's death, she lived with her son Philip John Ducarel (1778-1855) in the family estate at Newland in Gloucestershire. Rumored during her lifetime to be the daughter of a Hindu Maharaja, her brothers' letters and her wax seal indicate that Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa came from a Muslim family. This collection was collected by Lord and Lady Palmer after having been preserved by family members for generations. Lord Palmer is a descendant of Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa.
• Philadelphia City Archives
  Repository ID: 0055 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Philadelphia City Archives preserves historical City records and provides access to the public. The Archives was established in 1952 under the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  Repository ID: 0031 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art houses a world-renowned collection in a landmark building. Highlights of the collection include: the largest and most importnat collection of works by Marcel Duchamp; the greatest collection of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi outside Europe. The finest public collection of Auguste Rodin's sculpture in the United States; superb Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas; exceptional American painting, sculpture, furniture, silver, and ceramics that reflect Philadelphia's central role in American history; and extraordinary "period rooms" and architectural ensembles from around the world. The museum's landmark building, opened in 1928 at the western end of Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The other buildings that make up its campus include the Perelman Building, the Rodin Museum, and the two great eighteenth-century houses in Fairmount Park, Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove.
• Presbyterian Historical Society
  Repository ID: 0036 | Metadata format: TEI
  Organized in 1852, the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia is the oldest denominational archives in the United States. PHS serves as the national archives of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and exists to collect, preserve, and share the story of the American Presbyterian and Reformed experience with Presbyterians, the scholarly community, and the general public. The society's holdings include over 30,000 cubic feet of records from congregations, presbyteries, and synods from across the country, and from national agencies charged with overseeing Presbyterian mission work both in the United States and abroad. The PHS collection also includes personal papers and a library of over 250,000 titles germane to Reformed history from the sixteenth century to the present.
• Princeton University Library
  Repository ID: 0050 | Metadata format: TEI
  Princeton University Library (PUL) has more than 11 million holdings, and encompasses 12 buildings on the campus. One of the largest open-stack libraries in the world, the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library functions as the main library on campus and assumes primary responsibility for the humanities and social sciences. PUL's Special Collections span five millennia and five continents, and include around 300,000 rare books; 30,000 linear feet of manuscript materials, ranging from cuneiform tablets to contemporary texts; a wealth of prints, drawings, photographs, maps, coins, and other visual materials. Special Collections includes the Cotsen Children's Library, the Scheide Library, the Public Policy Papers and the Princeton University Archives.
• Private Collection A
  Repository ID: 0014 | Metadata format: Custom
  Documents from a private collection: the Archimedes Palimpsest and the Galen Syriac Palimpsest. Data and metadata from both are available under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
• Rosenbach Museum & Library
  Repository ID: 0028 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Rosenbach Museum & Library seeks to foster inquiry, learning and creative thought by engaging audiences in programs, exhibitions, and research inspired by our collections of nearly 400,000 rare books, manuscripts, and fine and decorative art objects, including some of the best-known literary and historical objects in the world. In December 2013, the Rosenbach Museum & Library became affiliated with the Free Library of Philadelphia, bringing together two of the world's preeminent collections of rare books, manuscripts, Americana and art. The combined holdings of the Rosenbach Museum & Library and the Free Library of Philadelphia inspire unique exhibitions and programs throughout the year.
• Saint George's United Methodist Church of Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0046 | Metadata format: TEI
  Historic St. George's United Methodist Church of Philadelphia is the oldest Methodist Church in America. Located in Philadelphia, the church was founded by Captain Thomas Webb and the Methodist Society of Philadelphia in 1769 for the purpose of practicing the Methodist religion. In December of 1769, Joseph Pilmore, a missionary of John Wesley, held the first prayer meeting at the church followed later by Thomas Coke and Bishop Francis Asbury. Bishop Asbury was the first pastor of St. George's United Methodist Church and ordained as many as 35 ministers in the Methodist faith within America during his travels. Two African Americans, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, licensed as lay preachers of Methodism, eventually left the church because of racial tensions and formed two new congregations. Richard Allen formed Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Absalom Jones turned to the Episcopal faith and established St. Thomas' African Episcopal Church. St. George's is known as "the church that moved the bridge," as the Benjamin Franklin Bridge was rerouted in the 1920s so the church would not be demolished by its construction. St. George's records consist of conference letters; account books; baptism, death, and marriage records; as well as journals, diaries, etc.
• Science History Institute, Othmer Library
  Repository ID: 0025 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Science History Institute's Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History collects, preserves, and makes accessible materials relating to the history of science, technology, and medicine with an emphasis on chemical and material sciences and technologies from ancient to modern times. The Othmer Library was founded in 1988 when Dr. and Mrs. Othmer announced their challenge grant to be given for the creation of a library which would work to preserve the history of the chemical sciences. The Othmer Library now houses approximately 160,000 print and microform volumes, rare books & manuscripts, significant archival materials, and historical photographs of great value to researchers and our cultural heritage. Together these collections form an unrivaled resource for the history of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries.
• St. Peter's Church of Philadelphia
  Repository ID: 0045 | Metadata format: TEI
  In 1758 the vestry of Christ Church authorized the construction of a new chapel at Third and Pine Streets to accomodate its members living in the southern section of the city. St. Peter's Church and Christ Church shared the same vestry, ministers, and records and until they formally separated in 1832 were known as the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's. The formal separation agreement stipulated that records created prior to 1832 were to be maintained by Christ Church so researchers looking for pre-1832 information should check Christ Church's collections. Records created after 1832 are maintained by St. Peter's, an active parish. Scanned for this project are minutes, pew rents and registers.
• State Library of Pennsylvania, Rare Collections Library
  Repository ID: 0013 | Metadata format: TEI
  The State Library of Pennsylvania collects and preserves the written heritage of the Commonwealth through materials published for, by, and about Pennsylvania. The strengths of the Rare Collections Library include Pennsylvania imprints, government documents, original newspapers, pamphlets, maps and atlases, and rare works of Pennsylvania religion, natural history, and genealogy.
• Swarthmore College, Friends Historical Library
  Repository ID: 0008 | Metadata format: TEI
  Established in 1871 at Swarthmore College, two years after the College opened, the Friends Historical Library documents the history of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from their mid-seventeenth century origins to the present. As the largest Quaker library in the world, it includes materials on women's suffrage, the rights of Native Americans, the anti-slavery movement, social activism, and the peace movement.
• Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
  Repository ID: 0030 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is the principal repository for and steward of the Libraries' rare books, manuscripts, archives and University records. The SCRC collects, preserves, and makes accessible primary resources and rare or unique materials, to stimulate, enrich, and support research, teaching, learning, and administration at Temple University. SCRC makes these resources available to a broad constituency as part of the University's engagement with the larger community of scholars and independent researchers.
• University of Delaware Library
  Repository ID: 0029 | Metadata format: TEI
  Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library collects, preserves, and makes accessible rare and unique materials such as rare books, artists' books, fine press books, manuscripts and archives. The Special Collections have four main collecting areas in literature, art, history and Delawareana, and science and technology.
• University of Manchester Library, Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0021 | Metadata format: TEI
  The University of Manchester Library's manuscripts and archives are internationally important. Their subject range is extraordinarily diverse and the collections span many centuries, from the 3rd millennium BCE to the 21st century. European manuscripts include hundreds of medieval codices, and there are major collections of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew manuscripts. The Library holds the archives of hundreds of companies, trade unions, charities, social organizations and religious institutions, as well as individuals. Our rare book collections are amongst the finest in the world. They encompass almost all the landmarks of printing through five centuries, including magnificent illustrated books. Highlights include: over 4,000 incunables; a remarkable collection of 16th-century Italian books; one of the greatest collections in the world covering the entire history of the printed Bible; internationally important collections of French Revolutionary material, Nonconformist literature, and scientific and medical texts. The Library's significant Visual Collection comprises: paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, ceramics, glass, archives, manuscripts, prints, papers, illustrated and painted books, and associated objects. Dating from the ancient world to the present, its representation of visual culture is excellent, of international scope, importance and interest.
• University of Miami, Jay I. Kislak Collection
  Repository ID: 0026 | Metadata format: TEI
  Since its arrival in 2018, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Early Americas, Exploration and Navigation has transformed the University of Miami and its Libraries. The Kislak Collection at the University of Miami includes an assembly of rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and artifacts that convey a multifaceted history of the Americas, hemispheric cultural encounters, and global exploration beginning with Native American cultures and extending to modern times.
• University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center
  Repository ID: 0019 | Metadata format: TEI
  The University Archives and Records Center (UARC) serves the University community as a center for research, teaching and learning as well as center for the storage and management of inactive University records. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania established the University Archives and Records Center in 1945 and approved records management programs in 1954 and 1990. UARC's collections include a broad range of historically significant materials from the first paper records created by the Trustees in 1749 to the millions of electronic records of the present. These materials document the University's corporate or organizational origin and development as well as the many activities and achievements of its officers, staff, faculty, students, alumni, and benefactors. UARC's collections policies also extend beyond the institution itself and embrace the history of prominent persons associated with the University; the history of institutions of higher learning in the United States; the history of American intellectual life generally; and the history of the Philadelphia community in which the University lives. The collections consist of more than 14,000 cubic feet of records in many different formats, including visual archives and three-dimensional memorabilia.
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  Repository ID: 0002 | Metadata format: TEI
  With approximately 250,000 printed books and nearly ten million pieces of manuscript material, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is a small part of the University's 5 million-volume library system. Special strengths include American literature, drama, and history; English, Spanish, Italian, and German literature; the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the history of chemistry; the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library devoted to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; and the Henry Charles Lea Library with strengths in Church history, the Inquisition, magic, and witchcraft.
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Manuscripts
  Repository ID: 0001 | Metadata format: TEI
  These manuscripts are from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg collection in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at the University of Pennsylvania. With its emphasis on the history of science and the transmission of knowledge across time and geography, the Schoenberg Collection of about 300 manuscripts brings together many of the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval worlds. Documenting the extraordinary achievements of scholars, philosophers, and scientists active in pre-modern Europe, Africa, and Asia, the collection illuminates the foundations of our shared intellectual heritage.
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  Repository ID: 0016 | Metadata format: TEI
  Founded in 1887, the Penn Museum has always been one of the world's great archaeology and anthropology research museums, and the largest university museum in the United States. With roughly one million objects in its care, the Penn Museum encapsulates and illustrates the human story.
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Archives
  Repository ID: 0018 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Penn Museum Archives is the institutional repository of the Penn Museum and the work for its archaeologists and anthropologists. The collections include 2,500 feet of records; these records document the Museum's archaeological expeditions to every inhabited continent, the history of the Penn Museum, and the history of the practices of archaeology and anthropology. Further, we hold three-quarters of a million images and nearly one thousand reels of film.
• University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Barbara Bates Center
  Repository ID: 0024 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing is the largest repository for primary source materials and rare books about the history of nursing. The Center holds an extensive collection of materials from 19th to the 20th century hospital based nursing schools, visiting nurse societies and the personal papers of nursing leaders. Contained in the collections are over 3000 books, rare books, glass slides, photographs, audio tapes, and films, as well as a smaller amount of artifact holdings. The Center's collections are approximately 2300 linear feet.
• Villanova University Libraries, Special Collections
  Repository ID: 0037 | Metadata format: TEI
  Villanova University Special Collections houses approximately 15,000 items. Some of these items are rare or unique and most require special handling and preservation. Collections include Augustiniana, the DiOrio Theater collection, European imprints to 1800, the Hubbard collection, incunabula, limited editions, the McGarrity Collection, manuscripts, the Mendel Collection, North American imprints to 1864, the Reap World War II collection, the Sherman Thackara collection and Villanovana.
• The Walters Art Museum
  Repository ID: 0054 | Metadata format: TEI
  The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art. This collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Nouveau jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces. With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. Items in the collection are from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany; French and Flemish books of hours; as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination.
• The Walters Art Museum (Legacy Data)
  Repository ID: 0020 | Metadata format: Walters TEI
  The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art. This collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Nouveau jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces. With more than 900 illuminated manuscripts, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. Items in the collection are from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany; French and Flemish books of hours; as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination.