The Conventional and Unconventional Values of the Jasper Yeates Papers

I’m posting this on behalf of Michael Fiorelli.  Last week he completed a summer archival internship at HSP, and we thank him for all his hard work.  Cary. I am a History Graduate Student at Villanova University and for the past two months I have been processing the Jasper Yeates papers (Collection 740) at the [...]

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Telecommuting History

Archives, like nearly all fields, are being forced to do more with less.  Coupled with the denizens of the internet growing desire for more content at a more rapid pace and we have quite the dilemma.  Luckily, there are still a few tricks about that can help to lessen both of these trials plaguing cultural [...]

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The Life of a Digital Collections Intern

Posted on behalf of Stephanie Sendaula Before I even applied for my current internship, which is in digital collections, I debated whether or not I should apply for a traditional archive internship … processing, describing, ladder-climbing, etc… To be honest I do a little bit of those now. Actually, I do a lot of ladder [...]

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Looking Back, Fondly: My Summer Internship at HSP

–I am posting this on behalf of Melissa Hozik.  Earlier this week, she completed a summer internship at the archives at HSP, and we send her many, many thanks for all her hard work.  Cary. When deciding what to do for coursework this summer at Drexel University (I am a library and information science graduate [...]

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A Belated Answer and a Farewell

First the belated answer to the “Guess the Story” post. The images are from Der Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter), a German children’s book by Heinrich Hoffman first published in 1845. The stories were meant as warnings to children by showing them the consequences of misbehavior. Series One, called “Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher” (The Story of Little [...]

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Can You Guess the Story?

While continuing to work on the Allen collection I came across a curious set of cards. The cards were numbered in a series and each series seemed to tell some kind of moral story. Since the text is in German we had a lot of fun trying to guess what the story was just based [...]

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Getting There is Half the Fun

While working with the Allen Family Papers I came across some travel journals with ephemera from the trips (mostly postcards) laid in. The journals span 1909 to 1934 and cover the family’s trips to Europe (with one exception of a trip to California via the Panama Canal). The journals presented a somewhat perplexing question. The [...]

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The Allen Family Papers

Last week I began to create a finding aid for the Allen Family Papers. From what I can tell so far, the majority of the collection seems to be Alfred Reginald Allen Sr.’s (1876-1918) correspondences with his father, son, wife, and other family members. Leslie Hunt, a former archivist at HSP, had painstakingly inventoried some [...]

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Joshua Humphreys, “Father of the American Navy”

This week I spent some time working on the Joshua Humphreys papers (Collection 306). Born in Haverford, Pa. in 1751, Humphreys would go on to be the nation’s foremost naval architect in the post-Revolutionary era. In 1776 Humphreys was chosen by the Continental Congress to design the retrofitting of eight merchant vessels into battle-worthy frigates. [...]

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The saga of the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House continues…

First I should start by correcting myself a bit. In my last blog I said that the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, U.S. objected to the idea put forth by the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, U.K. to use theatrical presentations to tell the story and have a science lab on the upper floors of [...]

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