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Hello, world, here’s a song that we’re singin’, C'mon get happy! This #doodletues

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An adorable piece from a card game based on part one of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. This ga

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In honor of our collections we’ve used Jonathan Swift’s best known and most illustrated work *Gulliv

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This fuzzy friend (or fiend?) may look innocuous at a glance—but this a carpet beetle, which many ho

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From the Caroline Schimmel Collection, this framed miniature photograph of a deceased young woman is

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This is one of hundreds of sketches or doodles drawn by Clement Winston (1902-1986), who worked as a

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This row of proud pigeons was found in an edition of The Graphic, an illustrated weekly newspaper ou

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The beginning of *Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London

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Planning a trip to the beach? Hope you’re as fashionably dressed as these two ladies! ‍♀️ Fro

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This silhouette depicts Marie and Pierre Curie working together in the lab. This photomechanical pri

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Curious about what stains on manuscripts mean and what we, as modern viewers, can glean from them? T

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Bloomers were developed in the 19th century in America in response to the adverse effects women&rsqu

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Penn’s holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western Hemisphere with more than 3,000 i

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Any summer travel plans? Follow the tours of Marian Anderson in the current ongoing exhibition on th

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Monday’s here and if it already feels like your week’s going down the drain just remember—we’ve made

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This coat of arms held by a crowned eagle is from a 19th-century facsimile of the justification pres

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This zoomorphic initial was found in a 12th-century bound collection of geometrical texts. This manu

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It’s summer vacation time! In 1912, the Biddle family traveled through the American West and t

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Rocket Cat… burning out his fuse up here alone The fourth’s lit up night sky reminded us of Rocket

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Rocket Cat… burning out his fuse up here alone The fourth’s lit up night sky reminded us of Rocket

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