News and Notes
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October 2018 Newsletter
October 3, 2018
In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19.
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CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”
October 3, 2018
June 6-7, 2019
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA -
California Institute of Technology Joins Consortium
September 26, 2018
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.
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Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America
September 21, 2018
Kathrinne Duffy, Brown University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
The H. W. Lende Manuscript Collection
September 11, 2018
The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of s
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The Records of the Consumer Health Information Center and the Records of Philly Health Info
September 11, 2018
The Historical Medical Library is pleased to announce that the Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) and the records of its successor, Philly Health Info (PHI), have been fully processed and are ready for researcher use.
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Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
August 23, 2018
Aprajita Sarcar, Queen’s University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
August 9, 2018
Timothy Minella, Villanova University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
July 26, 2018
Lauren Rosati, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Hagley Library Acquires the James W. Cortada Collection of Information Technology Publications
July 26, 2018
This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.