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Photo Collection Project Takes A Walk In Ed Bacon’s Shoes
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Photo Collection Project Takes A Walk In Ed Bacon’s Shoes

Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn is digitalizing a treasure trove of slides from the personal collection of Philly city planner extraordinaire Edmund Bacon and they need your help. Michael Bixler has the ...
New Book On W.E.B. Du Bois Colors In “White Space”
History

New Book On W.E.B. Du Bois Colors In “White Space”

The pioneering research of W.E.B. Du Bois on race, class, and data collection are on display in a strikingly visual new volume, "W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America." Joe Brin has this book ...
The Making & Breaking Of The Philadelphia Commercial Museum
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The Making & Breaking Of The Philadelphia Commercial Museum

Edward Duffy takes us back when industry, commerce, and foreign trade flooded the halls of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, the first institution of its kind in the United ...
Fisher Fine Arts Library Gives Hidden City Daily Eternal Life
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Fisher Fine Arts Library Gives Hidden City Daily Eternal Life

Long live Hidden City Daily! We are honored and thrilled to announce that our website was chosen for inclusion in the Fisher Fine Arts Library Web Archive at Penn. Michael Bixler has the ...
Queen of The Rats: How One Female Scientist Colonized The Modern Lab
History

Queen of The Rats: How One Female Scientist Colonized The Modern Lab

Mickey Herr takes a look at the Wistar Rat, a true Philly original, and the groundbreaking female biologist that helped standardize ...
The Origins of Morris Arboretum & The Mansion From Which It Bloomed
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The Origins of Morris Arboretum & The Mansion From Which It Bloomed

Joyce Munro walks us through the gardens of Lydia Morris in Chestnut Hill where her Victorian summer home, Compton, once turned critics cold with its flamboyant ...
The Rise & Ruckus Over Bio Pond, Penn’s Hidden Urban Oasis
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The Rise & Ruckus Over Bio Pond, Penn’s Hidden Urban Oasis

Harry K. has the backstory on the beginnings of the Bio Pond research garden at Penn and the brouhaha in the 1990s over saving the little slice of ...
On The Hunt For Brains, Discovering The Wistar Institute
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On The Hunt For Brains, Discovering The Wistar Institute

Mickey Herr dissects the origins of the Wistar Institute and examines the brain of a man that turned the medical world on its ...
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