Records, 1890-1979.

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Records, 1890-1979.

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The records, 1890-1979, for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries deal primarily with the operation of the Library from the Furness building but also includes information on the fundraising efforts for and the construction of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. The records include: correspondence with booksellers, 1892-1904; correspondence of the Library Trustee Committee, 1909-1946; budget appropriations, 1897-1939; book funds, 1890-1939; minutes, 1953-1965; annual statistical reports, 1903-1962; library expansion plans of George Wharton Pepper (chair of the committee), 1948-1954; construction and furniture files, 1958-1962; circulation and reference reports, 1946-1957; and specifications for the Graduate Library Center for Graduate Studies, 1958-1962.

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Pepper, George Wharton, 1867-1961

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U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. From the description of Letter to Will Orton Tewson, 1925 July 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63109874 U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1906-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155886430 George Wharton Pepper - distinguished Philadelphia lawyer and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania - was born in Philadelphia on March 1...

University of Pennsylvania. Library.

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University of Pennsylvania. Libraries

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The University of Pennsylvania Library dates to 1749 with a gift of books from Richard Jackson, a London lawyer and politician. Within a few years, Benjamin Franklin and William Smith donated additional volumes. In 1784 Louis XVI of France presented the Library with 100 volumes. When the University moved from its Fourth and Arch Streets location to its present West Philadelphia address in 1872, the Library was housed on the first floor of College Hall. By 1890, the Library's 55,000 ...