Category: Events

Archives Month Philly: Free Library of Philadelphia Rare Book tour and exhibitions

October 25, 2014

Currently, the Rare Book Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia is providing tours which include an introduction to the history of the book showing select items from the collections, including cuneiform tablets, a section of a papyrus scroll, a medieval manuscript and a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible. The tour also includes a visit … More Archives Month Philly: Free Library of Philadelphia Rare Book tour and exhibitions

Archives Month Philly: Free exhibit on Delaware River life in Bristol

October 22, 2014

Contributed by Shaun Kirkpatrick Did you know that an amusement park once sat on an island in the middle of the Delaware River?  Or that a Bristol, Pa.-to-Burlington, N.J. ferry in the 1750s charged 6 pence for a pig to ride (the same as a human), unless the pig was dead…in which case it was … More Archives Month Philly: Free exhibit on Delaware River life in Bristol

Archives Month Philly Returns!

October 1, 2014

Archives Month Philly, a month-long festival of history-themed events at Philadelphia’s vibrant and diverse archives, special collections libraries, and cultural institutions, returns for a second year. This year’s headlining events include a chance to view historic lantern slides, an exclusive look at the stories of Philadelphia’s World War I dead, a revealing talk on the … More Archives Month Philly Returns!

Mark your calendars for Archives Month Philly 2014!

July 17, 2014

Last year, more than 20 institutions around the Delaware Valley participated in Archives Month Philly, a celebration of archives, special collections and cultural institutions held annually in October. Events included a film screening at PhilaMOCA, behind-the-scenes tours at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, a lantern slide salon … More Mark your calendars for Archives Month Philly 2014!

New WWI Digital History Site Launches

July 1, 2014

On June 26th, cultural institutions around the Delaware Valley region celebrated the launch of Home Before the Leaves Fall, a new digital history site highlighting little-known World War I resources and archival materials. Held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the launch event featured a physical and digital display of items from participating institutions, including the … More New WWI Digital History Site Launches

MARAC Spring 2014: Destination Rochester!

May 7, 2014

At the end of April, nearly 300 archivists gathered in Rochester, NY for the Spring 2014 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. Organized around the theme “Film, Freedom, and Feminism,” the conference featured a diverse line-up of presentations and speakers, including sessions on web archiving, electronic record-keeping, documenting social movements, and women in both the archival profession … More MARAC Spring 2014: Destination Rochester!

Call for Proposals — Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting 2014

August 7, 2013

CFP: MAC Annual Meeting 2014 The Syncopations of History: MAC at Kansas City Whether you prefer a 4/4 beat, elaborate riffing, or playing by memory (all signatures of the Kansas City jazz style), the 2014 Midwest Archives Conference Program Committee (PC) looks forward to receiving session proposals fitting the theme: “The Syncopations of History.” The … More Call for Proposals — Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting 2014

Unconferencing #phillyDH

June 17, 2013

by Sarah Newhouse, Historical Society of Pennsylvania On June 4th, over 200 of the best and brightest (and nicest) from Philadelphia’s digital humanities community attended the PhillyDH@Penn event at the Penn Libraries’ new Special Collections Center.  The day was bracketed by two workshop sessions and the time in between was filled in with unconference sessions,  … More Unconferencing #phillyDH

Another successful meeting of Archivists Being Awesome

March 4, 2013

Contributed by Jenna Marrone If the stack of empty pizza boxes was any indication, then last week’s Archivists Being Awesome (ABA) event was a raging success! The meeting, which took place Thursday night, February 28, at Temple University’s Paley Library, featured fifteen-minute presentations from four Philadelphia-area archivists. Margery Sly, Director of the Special Collections Research … More Another successful meeting of Archivists Being Awesome

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

February 19, 2013

The 2012-2013 concert season of the Philadelphia Orchestra marks the one hundredth anniversary of the appointment of Leopold Stokowski as the Orchestra’s Conductor. Over the course of his twenty nine-year tenure with the PO, Stokowski developed it into one of the world’s greatest musical ensembles and helped establish Philadelphia as a center of excellence and … More Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra