News and Notes
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PACHS Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Onion receives the 2012 HSS Reingold Prize
December 6, 2012
The History of Science Society (HSS) has awarded the Nathan Reingold Prize to Rebecca Onion, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, for a chapter in her disse
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The Sciences of Observation and their use in the development of the United States, 1770-1820
December 6, 2012
Simon Thode Johns Hopkins University 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Fellow
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Fellow Update: Susan Hanket Brandt
December 4, 2012
Susan Hanket Brandt (2011-2012 Research Fellow) is currently a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Fellow Update: Kurt MacMillan, Chris Heaney and Ben Breen
December 3, 2012
Kurt MacMillan (2011-2012 Dissertation Writing Fellow) has received a fellowship from the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College to participate in the 2013 Humanities Institute, "Tow
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Fellows Update: Joanna Radin and Kurt MacMillan
December 2, 2012
Joanna Radin (2010-2011 Dissertation Writing Fellow) is Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and of History at Yale University.
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Fellows Update: Andrew Berns and Terry Christensen
December 1, 2012
Andrew Berns (2009-2010 Research Fellow) is the Melville J. Kahn fellow this year at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
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Hagley Museum & Library aquires Howe and Lescaze Design Archive, Dessauer Papers
November 26, 2012
Pennsylvania Saving Fund Society Howe and Lescaze Design Archive (Accession 2062) Although acquired in 1993, the blueprints, drawings, and photographs by Howe and Lescaze, designers of Phila
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Hagley Museum & Library obtains Pahlmann Papers, Schroeder Papers, and Sperry Corporation Photographs
November 23, 2012
William Pahlmann Papers (Accession 2388) William Pahlmann defined mid-century modern in domestic and public interior designs.
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The Hagley Museum & Library's Hendrick Manufacturing Company Records
November 20, 2012
Hendrick Manufacturing Company Business Records, 1861-1980 (Accession 2409). This collection, assembled by the last family president of the Hendrick Manufacturing Company, documents both the
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The Republic of Fever: Commerce, Warfare and the Making of Warm Climate Medicine in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
November 13, 2012
Katherine Arner Johns Hopkins University 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow