-
The International Appeal of Musicals
Growing up, I was a theater kid, but not in the traditional sense of the term. I grew up watching the Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story on repeat. In high school, I played violin in the pit orchestra for my community theater group for the musicals Oliver!, Les Misérables,
-
Scrapped: The Curious Case of Penn’s Missing 2,000lb Computer
In 1970, researchers at the Society for Data Educators set out to find the first computer at an educational institution. The society’s founder, Enoch Haga, wrote to the University of Pennsylvania archivist claiming that the “first American difference engine,” and therefore, “the first ‘computer’ to be owned by an American university,” was at Penn (UPP
-
How to Get Around 19th Century Philadelphia
The Moses A. Dropsie papers mainly consists of legal cases and documents pertaining to the city of Philadelphia, its infrastructure and its transportation system. Moses A. Dropsie (1821-1905) was a lawyer, president of two railroad companies, and the main benefactor of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. The railroad companies that Dropsie headed were
-
Jews in Medicine: From Riga, Latvia to Pune, India
The Wahrman collection of Jews and medicine consists of over 1,000 items pertaining to Jewish hospitals, pharmacies, nurses and physicians in Europe, Africa, South Asia and Israel, dating from 1862 to 1986. With so much material within such a large geographical range, there are so many interesting items to see in this collection, from quarantine
-
Segmenting Ancient Chinese-Japanese Texts for HTR (from the RDDS Blog)
The following blog post by Yifang Xia, RDDS Data Science & Society Research Assistant 2025, is a log of her work as part of the work with the Manuscript Collections as Data Research Group. It follows her experience with segmenting an illustrated treatise ca. 1600 on the diagnosis of abscesses and tumors and their treatment,
-
Not Quite a Building
The Many Models of the Architectural Archives The sound of paper rustling registers the shifting of one small model out of its box and onto the wide, wooden table. More rustling. Another. Then another…Soon twenty shapes of varying complexity sit politely in formation. They are the work of Philadelphia sculptor, Robinson Fredenthal (Collection 163). A
| CARVIEW |
Select Language
HTTP/2 200
server: nginx
date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:59:28 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header.
host-header: WordPress.com
link: ; rel=shortlink
vary: accept, content-type, cookie
last-modified: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:59:27 GMT
cache-control: max-age=300, must-revalidate
x-nananana: Batcache-Set
content-encoding: gzip
x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS
alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=521.0
Unique at Penn
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Unique at Penn