Moved SCETI Collections

The Crisis of the Union (2004)

A collection comprising pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. Items are drawn primarily from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Links to other catalogues and collections are also available from this site.

Partner: Department of History
Support: The Library Company of Philadelphia, SAS Computing

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/civilwar/index.cfm

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The majority of the content on this site was drawn from books scanned from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. Visit their digital library to consult these digital facsimiles.

Diary of Ray Evans, 1939-1945 (2015)

The papers of Hollywood lyricist and University of Pennsylvania alumnus Ray Evans (Wharton class of 1936) were donated to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts in 2011 by the Ray and Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation. Among the treasures in the collection is the songster’s diary, kept during the war years of 1939-1945 which has been digitized and transcribed.

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/rayevansdiary/

Digitized images of the diary (Ms. Coll. 860, Box 62) can be found on Colenda. 

Download the fully transcribed flipbook of the Evans diary done by John Anderies.

Dreiser Web Source (2004)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was a novelist, story writer, autobiographer, essayist, political writer, travel writer, playwright, poet, journalist, editor, and diarist. The Dreiser Web Source provides access to correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and photographs related to Dreiser's personal life and his careers as journalist, novelist, essayist, and political activist. In addition to these resources from the collection of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library the site includes scholarly essays and links to the International Theodore Dreiser Society and to the newly updated Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography & Reference Guide.

Supporters: Concordia Foundation

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dreiser/

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The Dreiser primary source material formerly available on this site can now be found in Colenda, the Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Further Dreiser material, including the Dreiser bibliography, Dreiser library inventories, and short film of Dreiser at Iroki will be made available soon. Dreiser's Russian diary edited by Riggio and West can be found in an ebook version through Penn Press.

Edgar Fahs Smith Chemistry Collection (2009)

Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) was a professor of chemistry and a provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection is devoted to the history of chemistry, emphasizing periods prior to 1850, and includes monographic works on chemistry, alchemy, and related fields. In addition, there are more than 3,000 prints, engravings, and photographs of eminent scientists, their laboratories, and the apparatus they used, which have been digitized and mounted on the library web.

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/smith/index.cfm

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All images from this site can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

The English Renaissance in Context (2002)

The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) was an NEH-funded project (2002) designed to provide scholars and students with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. ERIC comprises two units: a set of tutorials on some of Shakespeare's plays and on the making and selling of books during the Early Modern period; and a database of scanned texts from Penn's Furness Shakespeare Library. When used in combination, these two units provide students with a rich introduction to English Renaissance literature in its historical and artifactual context.

Support: National Endowment for the Humanities

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm

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The scanned images of early modern books can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

The Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library (2000)

The H. H. Furness Memorial Library is devoted to the study of Shakespeare and other Tudor and Stuart dramatists. It includes most writings in English - as well as writings in many other languages - about Shakespeare and virtually all English-language editions of his plays and poems, including the first four folios, some early quartos, and other editions up to the present time. Translations of Shakespeare into many world languages are a special focus of the collection. Promptbooks, biographies, photographs, letters, scrapbooks (with reviews and news reports about Shakespearean performances and performers), and playbills offer rich resources for early stage history. In addition, the Library gathers primary and secondary information about the history of the Renaissance, especially in England but also on the Continent, and Shakespeare's predecessors, contemporaries, and successors among English Renaissance literary writers, particularly dramatists. It also contains more than 2,000 microfilm dissertations on Shakespeare and English drama from the middle ages through the Restoration.

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/index.cfm?nav=furness

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See more on the Furness Library.

All of the 16th-19th century primary sources scanned from the Furness Library are available in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward IV (2013)

Known as UPenn Ms. Roll 1066, this scroll was likely produced in London in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It comprises thirteen vellum membranes, sewn together for a length of nearly thirty-seven feet, and chronicles the lineage of Yorkist king Edward IV, beginning with Adam and Eve and ending with Edward IV (born 1461). The work contains a complex illustrative schema, comprising 174 bust-length portraits in color, five mandorlas with tinted full-length portraits, and eighty roundels containing crowns as well as several classic chronicle-type scenes including the Temptation of Adam, Noah after the Flood, and the city of Jerusalem. The site offers a full transcription of the text as well as an index to the images.

Partner: Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Support: Richard III Society, American Branch

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/msroll1066

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This project has now been migrated.

In Sight: Seeing the People of the Holy Land (2017)

Digital exhibit featuring photographs from the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography.

Former URL for citation purposes only: http:/sceti.library.upenn.edu/LenkinHolyLandPhotos/

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Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair (2007)

The Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair comprises over 1,000 items documenting the history of the Dreyfus Affair and its impact on the art, society, and politics of France and the modern world. Assembled by Dr. Lorraine Beitler as a resource for scholars, as a teaching collection for students, and as a traveling exhibition designed to stimulate discussion of the issues of prejudice, racism, and social injustice in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it has been exhibited around the world.

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dreyfus/

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The Moldovan Family Holy Land Map Collection (2009)

The Moldovan family Holy Land Map Collection was built over several decades by Dr. Alfred Moldovan and his family. It consists of 94 discrete maps dating from 1480-1797, printed in 23 distinct locations across Europe. The majority of the maps were printed in the 17th and 18th centuries in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Basel, Lyon, Paris, Rome, Strassburg, Tuebingen, and Venice. There are over fifty cartographers and engravers represented, including Adrichem, Bunting, Calmet, Hole, Mercator, Munster, Ortelius, Visscher, Wit, and Ziegler. It also features the unique surviving copy of Antonio De Angelis’s map of Jerusalem, printed in Rome in 1578.

Partner: Dr. Alfred Moldovan

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/moldovanmaps/index.cfm

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All digitized items from this site can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Penn in the Age of Franklin (2004)

Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in organizing and shaping Penn from its inception. He was President of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia from 1749 to 1755, and served continuously as trustee until his death in 1790. The partnership of Franklin and Penn is played out against the background of the creation of both a new republic and of higher education in America. Penn in the Age of Franklin provides access to original documents and manuscripts, printed books, and artifacts from both the Penn Libraries and the University Archives - whether it be a letter from Franklin, an issue of Poor Richard, or minutes of the earliest meetings of the Trustees.

Partner: University Archives & Record Center

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/franklin/index.cfm

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All digitized items from this site can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragments Project

A genizah is a storeroom or repository for old, used and damaged books, Torah scrolls, and other documents containing the name of God, whose destruction Jewish tradition proscribes. This web site displays selected holdings of two distinct institutions, Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, and reunites virtually the dispersed fragments from the Cairo Genizah. Documents from the Cairo Genizah date from the 9th through through the 15th centuries. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Judeo-Arabic, they catalogue the social, cultural, and religious lives of Jews around the Mediterranean basin.

Partner: Cambridge University Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
Support: Jeffrey Keil

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/genizah/index.cfm

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The Genizah fragments from Penn can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Penn Culinary Collections

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/PennCulinary/about.cfm

There is a new subject guide to this topic.

University of Pennsylvania Papyrological Collection (2005)

The Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) project at the University of Pennsylvania did extensive scanning of the papyri at the University Museum during 2005-2009 and made the images available on a web portal This site hosted images of more than 400 items in the Penn Museum's collections.  

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/papyri/browse.cfm 

Web quality images of all of these papyri can be found on the Penn Museum’s collections database. The Penn Libraries have made a substantial number of these papyri available in high-resolution tiffs with full metadata on OPenn. 

Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans & Futures (2007)

Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a web presentation of the full content of 86 neighborhood planning surveys prepared and published by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. These reports contain descriptions of current conditions of housing stock; population trends; property turnover; public transportation; community activity. Recommendations are made for future action.

Support: Martin and Margy Meyerson

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/PhilaNeighborhoods/index.cfm

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All digitized items from this site can now be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

Robert & Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive

This musical research library, international and multi-lingual in scope, is a collection of approximately 5,300 Judaic sound recordings, in various formats. The majority of these recordings have been catalogued in an easily searchable internet database displaying song titles, authors, composers, performers, first lines and other related information.

Support: Robert and Molly Freedman

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/freedman/

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Learn more about the Freedman Collection.

Explore the Freedman Collection.

The Sabato Morais Ledger (2004)

The Morais Ledger belonged to Sabato Morais, a Sephardic Jewish leader, Hebraist, poet, historian, lecturer, teacher, and the leading representative of enlightened Orthodox Judaism in 19th century America. The scrapbook he kept - digitized and searchable here - is a unique record of the path he charted, the time through which he lived, and the highly charged controversies in which he became embroiled.

Support: National Foundation for Jewish Culture

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/morais/index.cfm

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A full digital facsimile of the Morais Ledger (KCAJS ARC MS8) can be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.

The Seymour de Ricci Digitized Archive (2011)

The Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive is a searchable database containing the digitized notes of the historian and bibliographer Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942) made for the compilation of his unfinished Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta. This project was intended as a companion work to his Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, published between 1935 and 1940. De Ricci's notes, compiled in thirty-four boxes containing over 60,000 index cards and originally bequeathed to the Institute for Historical Research in London, are currently housed in the Senate House Library at the University of London (more info).

Partners: Senate House Library and Dr. Marc Leroy de Ricci

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dericci/

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Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript (2011)

The Zucker Holy Land Travel manuscript, though not based on direct observation, is the work of an unidentified 17th century scholar, in all likelihood from the Swiss city of Bern, who takes his readers on a tour of the sacred sites mentioned in the Bible. The text is based in large part on Olfert Dapper's Asia, oder, Genaue und gründliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins... (1681), a German translation of a 1677 Dutch original. Nevertheless, all the maps of the Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript as well as some of the illustrations have additional sources. The manuscript author also added his own notes, comments, and Hebrew and Greek renderings of various words to Dapper's text.

Partner: Anna Baechtold
Partners/support: Benjamin Zucker, Dr. Alfred Moldovan

Former URL – for citation purposes only: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/zucker/

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The Zucker Holy Land Travel Manuscript (CAJS Rar Ms 455) can be found in Colenda, Penn Libraries repository for digital collections content.