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Archives Photo of the Week: Mustache.
Portrait of George Byron Gordon, Museum’s first full-time director from 1910-27.Penn Image #162272 The Penn Museum Archives is home to the archival collections of the directors of the museum. As you...
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The Emergence of Ringo and Sobek
Rhonda Byrne possesses a mind that has the ability to transcend pessimism. In an earlier incarnation, it was able to infuse positivity into a physical manifestation that sold 19 million copies...
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Creating Beth Shean After Antiquity
Beth Shean After Antiquity home page This spring, I had the opportunity to sit in on a graduate seminar focusing on the ancient site of Beth Shean in northern Israel (Beth Shean After Antiquity, taught...
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Borneo Odyssey – a “Live from the Archives” performance
Before a house in Borneo. Photograph by Alfred C. Harrison, Jr.; hand-colored by Katharine Gordon Breed. Penn Museum image 16273 Early in September, during the HAIKU conference on Humanities and...
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Is Elvis in the building?
In honor of the important national holiday today we highlight an ancient artifact [reel to reel tape!] from our audio-visual collections… Report on the We-Uns. Author: Robert Nathan Originally aired:...
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Alaska Harpoon Rest
Alaska Harpoon Rest: Supported by Bears, Whales, and Chains Object Analysis and Report for Anthropology of Museums by Enika Selby This Iñupiaq (also called Eskimo or Inuit) harpoon rest (Museum Object...
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Portraying Nippur: Artist Osman Hamdi Bey’s Early Relationship with the Penn...
The Penn Museum is perhaps best known for its impressively large and varied collection of artifacts spanning practically the entirety of human existence, but recently visitors were given a special...
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#ArchivesMonth
The Penn Museum Archives Since the 1990s, the archives profession has used October as a rallying point for advocacy for the important work that archivists do. What was once a week honoring archives has...
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Flight into the Museum Archives
“This will confirm your assignment as Flight Operator to the NC146M, which is being chartered by the Matto Grosso Expedition for service in the interior of Brasil [sic] for a period of at least four...
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Blackfeet Moccasins: A Gift to Charles Stephens
This object study focuses on two pairs of moccasins, similar in structure and style, collected in 1891 from Blackfeet (also called Blackfoot) artisans.[1] The moccasins have a closed-toe design, cloth...
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