| | 1 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Albert Gallatin
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 14 March 1810 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian ethnography | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
| 2 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between John Heckewelder and Benjamin Smith Barton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 August 1795 - 29 March 1815 | | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | | Abstract: | 15 letters (14 to Barton, 1 to Heckewelder). Indian languages | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton. Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 3 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | An Essay Towards a Natural History of North American Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Photocopy | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1789 | | | | Extent: | 16 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 4 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John Heckewelder
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 22 February 1796 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | American Indian antiquities and skin color | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 5 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages, 1798-1821
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1798-1821 | | | | Extent: | 221 leaves | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains extracts of Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau, including a review of Barton's book in "Gottingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799. | | | | Source: | A Comparative Vocabulary of Indian Languages (497 B28) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 6 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1789-1794 | | | | Extent: | 17 letters; 3 printed documents | | | | Abstract: | Includes letters to Thomas Pennant concerning color and morphology of American Indians. Also "Proposals for Printing... An Historical... Inquiry into... Remains of Antiquity," 1789. | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers. Letters to Thomas Pennant (B B284) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 7 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Queries Concerning the Northern Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 31 March 1797 | | | | Extent: | 2 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (497 V85) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 8 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1788-1815 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 5,000 leaves (10 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Includes notes, vocabulary lists, paper manuscripts, correspondence dealing with American Indian antiquities, ethnography, and physical anthropology. Correspondents include William Bartram, Albert Gallatin, John Heckewelder, Thomas Jefferson, Constantine Rafinesque, John Vaughan. | | | | Source: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers, Violetta W. Delafield Collection (B B284.d) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 9 | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | | | | | Physician, naturalist. Medical practice, Philadelphia, 1789-1815; professor of natural history and botany, College of Philadelphia, 1790-95, of materia medica, 1895-1813; chair of theory and practice of medicine, 1813-15; physician to Pennsylvania Hospital, 1798-1815; founder and editor, Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, 1805-08. Barton's interests and research included studies in botany, materia medica, and American ethnography. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John Heckewelder
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 November 1797 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter; photocopy | | | | Abstract: | Nanticoke Indians | | | | Source: | Letters of Scientists, from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (509 L56.26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | |
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