News and Notes
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California Institute of Technology Joins Consortium
September 26, 2018
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.
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Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America
September 21, 2018
In the nineteenth century, phrenology transformed the relationship between scientists and the public.
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The H. W. Lende Manuscript Collection
September 11, 2018
The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of s
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The Records of the Consumer Health Information Center and the Records of Philly Health Info
September 11, 2018
The Historical Medical Library is pleased to announce that the Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) and the records of its successor, Philly Health Info (PHI), have been fully processed and are ready for researcher use.
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Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77
August 23, 2018
How changing medical technologies helped change Indian families
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By Their Locks You Shall Know Them: Race, Science, and Hair in the Nineteenth Century
August 9, 2018
The quest of a Philadelphia lawyer and naturalist to assemble the world's largest collection of hair and wool specimens provides a window into the scientific racial theories of the nineteenth century.
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Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
July 26, 2018
How did artist-engineers use new technologies to create a sonic register of the avant-garde?
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Hagley Library Acquires the James W. Cortada Collection of Information Technology Publications
July 26, 2018
This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.
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American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940
July 11, 2018
New research reveals the presence of a longstanding community of women in physics.
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Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
June 28, 2018
How has healthcare united far-flung places across the British Empire?