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Publication Signers Day(2012-07-04) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay on signatures in the Hale Signers Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.Publication Alexander Hamilton’s working papers(2016-05-13) Fraas, MitchEssay on a compilation of printed documents possibly owned by Alexander Hamilton.Publication July 5, 1776(2016-07-05) Fraas, MitchEssay on a printed and manuscript copy of a Portuguese declaration on the American Revolution.Publication Manifesto(2017-06-06) Fraas, Mitch; Noel, WilliamManuscript Studies is a new journal that embraces the full complexity of global manuscript studies in the digital age. It has been conceived with four main goals in mind. First, to bridge the gaps between material and digital manuscript research; second, to break down the walls which often separate print and digital publication and serve as barriers between academics, professionals in the cultural heritage field, and citizen scholars; third, to serve as a forum for scholarship encompassing many pre-modern manuscripts cultures—not just those of Europe; and finally to showcase methods and techniques of analysis in manuscript studies that can be applied across different subject areas.Publication David Rittenhouse's Teenage Almanac?(2015-06-02) Fraas, MitchEssay about the acquisition of a manuscript autograph page possibly written by a young David Rittenhouse.Publication What’s missing in magazines(2015-09-24) Fraas, MitchShort essay on the differences between bound sets of 19th century periodicals in library settings and the physical originals.Publication Always Check the Endpapers(2014-01-09) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about a previously unknown printed arithmetic table and a type specimen from Joseph Jackson both found in endpapers of manuscripts at Penn.Publication July 4, 1788. Come for the beer, stay for the bibliography.(2013-07-03) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about a printed account of Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia July 4, 1788.Publication The Calve’s Head and Early Printing in Jamaica(2012-06-14) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about The *Calves’s-Head Club; or, a modest apology for Parson Alberoni, governor to King Philip, a minor; and universal curate of the whole Spanish monarchy: the whole being a short, but unanswerable Defence of Priestcraft, and a new confutation of the Bishop of Bangor. Jamaica: printed by R. Baldwin,in Kingston, 1719. [ESTC N67272]. This early printed pamphlet from Jamaica exists only in the Teerink Swift collection at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.Publication Lincolniana and the Electoral College(2013-11-21) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about the Penn collection of Lincolniana donated by Gordon Block - including a set of rare Electoral College ballots.