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A vast collection related to public markets comes to the Penn Libraries

Alum David K. O’Neil’s collection spans four centuries and locations around the globe, with a concentration on Philadelphia.
Three people looking at blueprints and postcards and other historic materials on a table in a room with windows.
Penn alum David K. O’Neil (right) started collecting materials related to public markets when he was the manager of the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia in the 1980s. Unique in size and scope, the collection now has a home at Penn Libraries and is being processed by a team of curators led by Mitch Fraas (left) of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, including Kristine McGee (front). 

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