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The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), composed of some of the finest archival repositories in the United States, is embarking on the “Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area: A Consortial Processing and Cataloging Initiative” Project. A selection of 19 participating institutions’ greatest “hidden collections” will be revealed to researchers through this innovative and exciting endeavor. According to the Council of Library and Information Resources, the administrators of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundations Grant which makes this project possible, “libraries, archives and cultural institutions hold millions of items that have never been adequately described …[which] nationally, … represents a staggering volume of items of potentially substantive intellectual value that are unknown and inaccessible to scholars.”

These photographs are taken by project staff during the processing of the selected collections. To use any of these photographs, please contact Holly Mengel, project manager, so that the appropriate photographer may be credited.