Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• Caribbean Folklore Recordings, 1950s-1960s, Digitization Project: the University of Pennsylvania Folklore Department Collections.

  The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) proposes to digitize folkloric sound recordings created by some of the best-known American folklorists, who worked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Folklore Department in the years 1962-2006. These field recordings document songs and stories common to people in the early and mid-20th century. For the purposes of this application we are proposing the transfer of the recordings clustered in the Caribbean: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent’s, and Nevis. The recordings are a singular record of folklore and culture in our hemisphere, and are very well documented with text and photographic records. This will make it possible to eventually digitally unite (across media) a body of research of great value to current and future students of folklore, Africana scholars, and many other researchers and music enthusiasts, as well as to people from the places documented.

• The Revolutionary City: Philadelphia, 1774-1783

  Philadelphia is the iconic city of the American Revolution, home to the Continental Congress, Independence Hall, and the Liberty Bell. Most Americans associate it with the Declaration of Independence, the founding of a new nation, and the story of how a united citizenry declared themselves free, overthrowing a monarchy to create a democracy. The project will tell this story through collections housed in four of Philadelphia's great repositories: the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania. These institutions hold the papers of some of the best-known Philadelphia revolutionaries, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. However, the project will do more than tell their story. Its primary goal is to comprehensively digitize the vast array of small, often-overlooked collections in these institutions that tell the compelling personal story of how the Revolution affected the city and its residents.

• "The Revolutionary City: Philadelphia, 1774-1783"

  Philadelphia is the iconic city of the American Revolution, home to the Continental Congress, Independence Hall, and the Liberty Bell. Most Americans associate it with the Declaration of Independence, the founding of a new nation, and the story of how a united citizenry declared themselves free, overthrowing a monarchy to create a democracy. The project will tell this story through collections housed in four of Philadelphia's great repositories: the American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania. These institutions hold the papers of some of the best-known Philadelphia revolutionaries, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. However, the project will do more than tell their well-established story. Its primary goal is to comprehensively digitize the vast array of small, often-overlooked, collections in these institutions that tell the compelling personal story of how the Revolution affected the city and its residents.

• The Philadelphia Social History Project: Providing Access to Critical Datasets and Data Analyses

  This project will restore access to the work of the Philadelphia Social History Project (PSHP) by processing the PSHP records (including dataset documentation and codebooks, publications and maps) and the papers of the Project's founder, Theodore Hershberg. Data dictionaries and computer processing instructions hidden within the archive are critical to deciphering much of PSHP's output about social conditions in 19th-century Philadelphia. PSHP data held at other institutions remains, literally, unintelligible without access to these documents. At the completion of this project, finding aids enhanced with geospatial coordinates and with a network of links will allow scholars to connect and reuse PSHP data held at Penn and other institutions.