Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

My First SDS Conference

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  A few weeks ago, hundreds of disability studies scholars, advocates, and activists gathered for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, June 10-13, 2015. I was fortunate to be one of the attendees on…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

The Female Physician: A Deviation from 19th-Century Gender Roles?

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This is the tenth anniversary of the Library Company first working with an intern from Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities. In their summers at the Library Company, each one has helped increase the digital resources…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Riddle of Independence: Independent but not Free

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Danielle Allen will give the Program in African American History’s 2015 Juneteenth Freedom Symposium talk at the Library Company. While in residence, our Mellon Scholars interns read Dr. Allen’s Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

A Dead Prostitute, a Male Impersonator, and a Medium: Three Sensational Pamphlets

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Our Curator of Printed Books Rachel D’Agostino found these three sensational pamphlets at a recent book fair. Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund, they are the sort of lowbrow items our 19th-century predecessors…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

The Union Library Company of Hatboro

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The Union Library Company of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, founded in 1755, is one of the oldest public libraries in America and one of many that imitated the Library Company of Philadelphia in name, mission, and organization. Recently the Board…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Frocks and Frills: Children’s Fashion at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Marriott C. Morris took this photograph of his son, Marriott Jr., in 1903 outside their house on Cresheim Road in the Mt. Airy neighborhood.  Young Marriott’s attire was typical for a boy of three at the time: skirted sailor suit, long…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Preserving the Legacy of the Pennsylvania Railroad

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The following is a guest post by Michael Froio who is a professional photographer, associate professor and facilities manager for the Photography Program, part of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Keeping the Highways and Byways Safe

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In 1906 the Keystone Automobile Club was established, and fifteen years later became affiliated with the newly formed National Motorists' Association, a group promoting national standards for roads, pedestrian and motorist safety, as well as…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Behind the Scenes

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As a visitor to the Library Company, you might see any of the thousands of objects in our collection in a variety of ways.  You could view prints, pamphlets, and paintings as part of an exhibition in the gallery, study rare books in the reading…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Love is in the Air

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Perhaps as a distraction from yet another month of winter weather, turning the calendars to February focuses some of our thoughts on Valentine’s Day and romance. While we are all familiar with today’s ubiquitous visual records of weddings,…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

Down the Shore with Marriott C. Morris

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About seven miles north of Avocado, the Morris family shore house located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, is the small town of Ocean Grove.  Founded in 1869 by a group of devout Methodists as a permanent camp meeting location, Ocean Grove became a…
Mellon Scholars Jalyn Gordon and Shayne McGregor

A New View of an Old Graveyard

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A wide variety of projects have resulted from readers using our historical collections. Occasionally we like to feature them in our blog. In late 2014 I had the pleasure to meet Ronald Shaffer, who among his many activities serves as the president…