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Eadweard Muybridge’s “Animal Locomotion,” part of the Muybridge collection at Penn, is one of the earliest attempts to use photography as a scientific tool.

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Today, the Declaration of Independence stands at the center of America’s founding moment and as a tribute to a new nation’s idealism. In 1776, the language was treated like any other document, edited in ways that caused author Thomas Jefferson angst over its “mutilations.” This year, a special project at Penn’s Common Press this year brought the Declaration to life through a public, interactive papermaking and printing exercise that will continue through this fall, and Penn experts on the Declaration reflect on its words and meaning.