Fraas, Mitch

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Senior Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections
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    Always Check the Endpapers
    (2014-01-09) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about a previously unknown printed arithmetic table and a type specimen from Joseph Jackson both found in endpapers of manuscripts at Penn.
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    July 4, 1788. Come for the beer, stay for the bibliography.
    (2013-07-03) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about a printed account of Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia July 4, 1788.
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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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    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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    A Taste of Recent Acquisitions
    (2013-10-01) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about items in the exhibition of recent acquisitions at the Penn Libraries, Fall 2013.
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    A Special List
    (2012-08-11) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about a manuscript fragment (LJS 431) which contains a 16th century list of books seen or purchased in Italy by Juan Páez de Castro (1512-1570).
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    Printing News at the Front
    (2013-09-24) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about the first issue of the newspaper Stars and Stripes to be published in France following the Normandy invasion.
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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 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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    More than Formulaic
    (2012-10-24) Fraas, Arthur Mitchell
    Contextual essay about an 18th-century American legal formulary created by Jared Ingersoll.