1. Penn Libraries’ World War I Pamphlets
Serendipitous discovery of pamphlets in Van Pelt stacks
Originating from the period during and shortly following World War I
International in origin, from the US, France, England, Belgium, Germany,
Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and in at least nine languages.
400 pamphlets ranging in subject matter from book catalogs to anti-war
tracts to war propaganda
Condition in an advanced state of deterioration: extremely brittle with some seeing their last use in the process of scanning
241 unique pamphlets scanned and added to Print at Penn
Pamphlets present in HathiTrust are not scanned [see image of Hathi Collection bringing these pamphlets together.]
All pamphlets are cataloged in Franklin with links to the facsimiles in Print at Penn or Hathitrust.
Physcial pamphlets deemed rare, preserved and stored at Libra
SAMPELS FROM THE PAMPHLETS
DISCOVERY
Aftermath and resettlement
CONNECTIONS TO PENN COLLECTIONS
From document to
Evidence of reception
Propaganda
Internet Archive
Presaging the next war
HathiTrust Collections
Rebecca Stuhr, Coordinator for Humanities Collections
Penn Libraries. The Digital Turn in the Humanities
April 23-25, 2015