Fraas, Mitch

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Senior Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections
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    The Records of the Asylum for Orphan Girls
    (2012-05-01) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Extended essay on UPenn Ms. Codex 1623 in four parts. The essay discusses a 2012 manuscript acquisition of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries which details the early history of the Orphan's Asylum at Lambeth. See attached spreadsheet for a list of Girls who entered the Asylum 1758-1760.
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    Surprise Sketches
    (2012-06-28) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about a copy of Francis Grund, Die Aristokratie in Amerika, aus dem Tagebuch eines deutschen Edlemanns (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1839) held by the Penn Libraries which features hand-drawings in the place of engravings of several key figures.
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    Moment in Time
    (2013-03-14) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about an image of librarians cataloging books in 1948 at Penn Libraries.
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    Preparing for a Treaty at the Early War Department
    (2012-09-05) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about a manuscript map depicting the route of commissioners to a potential treaty with Native American groups near present day Sandusky, Ohio.
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    A Rocket Cat? Early Modern Explosives Treatises at Penn
    (2013-02-05) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay on an early modern explosives and warfare treatise held at Penn and the origin of the so-called "rocket cat"
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    A New Model for Manuscript Provenance Research: The Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project
    (2022-06-10) Burrows, Toby; Emery, Doug; Fraas, Arthur Mitchell; Hyvönen, Eero; Ikkala, Esko; Koho, Mikko; Lewis, David; Morrison, Andrew; Page, Kevin; Ransom, Lynn; Cawlfield Thomson, Emma; Tuominen, Jouni; Velios, Athanasios; Wijsman, Hanno
    Since it was awarded a Round 4 Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging into Data Challenge grant in 2017, the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project has been working to develop and test a methodology to link disparate datasets from Europe and North America with the aim of providing large-scale analysis and visualizations of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Guided by a set of research questions identified at the outset of the project, MMM developed an innovative Linked Open Data model and dataset which unifies three separate manuscript-related databases in a semantically consistent way, together with the workflows for transforming the institutional data contributions into the common structure. The dataset has been made available through a Linked Open Data service hosted by the Linked Data Finland platform and the MMM semantic portal. The aggregated data can be queried and visualized at scales ranging from a single manuscript to a total of more than 216,000 manuscripts as a group. Visualization tools developed in the portal show how the manuscripts have traveled across time and space from their place of production to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences. The following report summarizes our methodology and results, and lays the groundwork for further research using our processes.
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    David Rittenhouse's Teenage Almanac?
    (2015-06-02) Fraas, Mitch
    Essay about the acquisition of a manuscript autograph page possibly written by a young David Rittenhouse.
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    A Founder's Book
    (2014-04-07) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Short essay about a recently acquired book belonging to James WIlson (1742-1798) and its history.
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    The Calve’s Head and Early Printing in Jamaica
    (2012-06-14) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual 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.
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    Mussolini’s Downfall
    (2012-05-24) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay on a copy of Mussolini's Diuturna [the Lasting] (Milan: Casa Editrice Imperia, 1924) held in the University of Pennsylvania libraries and annotated in 1945 using phrases from Victor Cousin by way of Cesare Cantù’s Storia Universale.