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Share The University of Pennsylvania Libraries today announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress. Given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection – part of which has already been appraised at $4.2 million—joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy, parents of a 1997 Penn graduate, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints. Together these collections document Tress’s diverse and fascinating career and represent the largest collection of Tress photographic pri...

The disruption has prompted financial concerns for students who may now require additional semesters of funding.

Challenging and transforming everyday experiences on Penn’s campus The Penn and Slavery Project will host a launch event Friday for its new augmented reality app, which unveils the University’s historical ties to slavery. One stop in the Penn and Slavery Project app allows users to explore a 360-degree AR exhibit, which discusses the work of Samuel Morton and the lingering legacies of scientific racism. The newly released Penn and Slavery Project app is meant to challenge and transform everyday experiences on Penn’s campus...

Link Copied William Henry Dorsey was an information hoarder. An African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia, Dorsey suffered from a “malady” that afflicted others of his era: archive fever. He spent much of his long life—he was born in 1837 and died in 1923—clipping newspaper articles and pasting them into one or another of nearly 400 scrapbooks, organized by topic.    Dorsey’s scrapbooks represent a bricolage of one man’s far-ranging interest in African American history and culture. He clipped articles mainly from northern newspapers, Black and white, incl...

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