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American Philosophical Society

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1920-2000
Abstract:  

The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers include correspondence to and from 20th century anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, linguists, and psychiatrists and provides a wealth of resources for the study of technological and social change, American Indians, culture and personality, revitalization movements, the anthropological study of religion, and the cultural and biological bases of behavior. In addition to Wallace's correspondence, research notes, and drafts, the collection includes Wallace family correspondence and photographs, as well as Wallace's writings from childhood through recent years.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.64a
Extent:
103.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Akwesasne Counselor Organization | American Anthropological Association | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Anthracite coal industry -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Anthropology -- Methodology | Anthropology -- Research | Anthropology -- Study and teaching. | Arctic hysteria | Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912 | Blacksnake, Governor, circa 1753-1859 | British Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County | Broomall, John Martin, 1816-18 | Carey family | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Chester County (Pa.) -- History | Chittibhol, Bancha (Thai stude | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Coal -- Geology -- Pennsylvania | Coal mine accidents -- Pennsylvania -- History | Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- History | Cognition and culture | Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) | Cornplanter, 1732-1836 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Counterinsurgency -- Thailand | Cross-cultural studies | Cults | Culture | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Delaware County (Pa.) -- History | Delaware Indians -- New York (State) -- History | Delaware Indians -- Pennsylvania -- History | Disasters | Disasters -- Psychological aspects | Disasters -- Social aspects | Domestic relations -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century | Du Pont de Nemours family | Du Pont family | Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 | Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- History | Ethnohistory | Ethnopsychology | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Foster, Michael K. | Gelatin silver prints | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germans -- Pennsylvania | Goodenough, Ward Hunt | Gouaches -- Color | Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin B | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Haudenosaunee | Hsu, Francis K. | Hypocalcemia | Hypoglycemia | Indians of North America -- Claims | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Missions | Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History | Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- History | Industries -- Pennsylvania -- History | Inuit -- Greenland | Irish -- Pennsylvania | Iron industry and trade -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Civilization and social life | Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Iroquois Indians -- Government relations | Iroquois Indians -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Religion | Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions | Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs | Jackson, Halliday,1771-1835. | Jennings, Francis P. | Kehoe, John, 1837-1878 | Kinzua Dam (Pa.) | Labor and laboring classes -- Pennsylvania -- History | Labor movements -- History | Labor, industrialization | Lammot family | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn, 1914-1998 | Lowell (Mass.) -- History | Maps. | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Millenialism | Mills and millwork | Mohawk nation at Akwesasne | Molly Maguires | National Science Foundation | Nativistic movements | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Nutrition -- Psychological aspects | Onondaga Indians | Paranoia | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Pennsylvania -- History | Personality and culture | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Piblokto | Postal cards. | Power (Social sciences) | Prophets | Psychiatric hospital care | Psychiatry | Psychobiology | Psychology | Psychology and religion | Psychotherapy patients | Quakers -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Religion | Religion and science | Revitalization movements | Richter, Daniel (two letters, | Rockdale (Pa.) -- History | Rorschach test | Rorschach tests | Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects | Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects | Schizophrenics | Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- History | Scrapbooks. | Sellers family | Seneca | Seneca Indians -- History | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Siney, John, 1835-1881 | Six Nations Indian Museum | Sketches. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slides. | Smith Family | Social change | Social movements | Social sciences -- Methodology | Society of Friends | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Spiro, Melford Elliott | St. Clair (Pa.) -- History | Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Sturtevant, William C. | Technological innovation | Technology -- Social aspects | Textile industry | Textile machinery | Textile manufacturers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Textile workers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Tintypes | Transportation -- Pennsylvania -- History | Tuscarora Indians | Tuscarora Indians -- Social life and customs | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Woodcuts -- Color | Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | World War, 1939-1945



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1878-1932
Abstract:  

Although most of this large collection consists of papers of Lewis's legal practice, there are important groups which relate to the furnishing and maintenance of his city and country houses and the management of his farm, to the assembling of his outstanding collections of Asian and medieval illuminated manuscripts and of Babylonian clay tablets (now at the Free Library of Philadelphia), and to institutions with which he was closely associated, such as the American Philosophical Society, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Many letters and papers are about business (mortgages, rents, directorships in banks and insurance companies, and investments) and about the social and cultural life of Philadelphia (operas, libraries, museums, and schools for the handicapped).
Call #:  
Mss.B.L585
Extent:
45 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1638-1980, Undated
Call #:  
Mss.973.C683
Extent:
760 item(s)
Subjects:  

Abenaki language | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Abolitionists. | Acquisitions (Libraries) | Actors | Aeronautics -- History | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Agricultural exhibitions | Agriculture -- Missouri | Air -- Purification -- Equipment and supplies | Albert Medal | Alcoholic beverage industry -- United States | Alphabets | America -- Antiquities. | American Anti-Vivisection Society | American Philosophical Society | American Philosophical Society -- Prizes | American Philosophical Society. Library | American loyalists. | Anatomy -- Study and teaching. | Animal magnetism. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Anthropology | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | Aquariums. | Archaeology -- Mexico | Archaeology -- United States. | Architectural drawings. | Architecture | Archives | Arithmetic. | Art -- Exhibitions | Astronomical instruments. | Astronomy | Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 | Atlases | Balloons. | Bank notes -- Forgeries | Bank notes -- Great Britain | Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania | Barometers. | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Beaver Meadow Railroad and Coal Company | Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Bible. New Testament | Bible. O.T. Psalms, II, 1 -- Sermons | Biology. | Birds | Birds -- North America | Birds -- Pictorial works | Birmingham (Pa.) | Bonds (financial instruments). | Bookbinding | Bookplates | Books -- Auction catalogs | Booksellers and bookselling | Boston Port Bill, 1774 | Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 | Botany | Botany -- Catalogs -- France | Botany -- Catalogs -- Great Britain | Botany -- Catalogs -- United States | Botany -- New York (State) | Braddock's Campaign, 1755. | Brandywine, Battle of, 1777 | Bridges. | Broadsides. | Building materials | Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 | Business Records and Accounts | Business cards | Cables -- Atlantic Ocean | Calculators. | Calendars | Campus Martius (Marietta, Ohio) | Canada -- Description and travel | Canada -- Maps | Canals -- Pennsylvania | Capture at sea | Carriages and carts | Cements, Adhesive | Cetacea | Charities -- England -- London | Chemicals | Chemistry | Chemistry -- History | Chemistry -- Nomenclature | Chemistry -- Study and teaching | Cherokee language -- Alphabet | Cherokee language -- Texts | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal | Chile | China | China -- Medical care | Chinese language | Chipewyan language | Christian calendars | Christianity | Christmas | Chronometers | Church buildings -- Pennsylvania-Philadelphia | Church of Scotland | Civilization -- Early works to 1800 | Clocks and watches. | Coinage. | Coins | Colombia -- Census | Columbia (Symbolic character) | Columbus, Christopher, 1451-1506 | Comets -- Orbits | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Conjoined twins | Connecticut | Conservation of natural resources. | Constitutional history -- United States | Cotton | Cotton -- Diseases and pests | Cotton -- Statistics | Counting | Court summons | Courtship -- Songs and music | Criticism -- History | Crucero Iberia | Crusades | Cuba -- Statistics, Vital | Cutlery | Cyclopedia | Dance cards | Darwinism. | Daylight saving | Delaware Indians | Delaware Indians -- Religion | Democratic National Convention (1864 : Chicago, Ill.) | Design | Dickinson College -- History -- Sources | Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation | Earth (Planet) | Eclipses. | Ecton (Northamptonshire, England) | Education | Education -- Congresses | Education -- South Carolina | Education -- Study and teaching -- England. | Education -- United States. | Egypt -- Civilization. | Eidouranion | Electricity | Electrotherapeutics | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French | English language | Entomology -- United States. | Episcopal Church -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eskimo languages | Essays. | Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fire extinction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Fisheries -- Great Britain | Fishes -- Catalogs and collections | Fishes -- Italy | Flags -- United States. | Flight | Flour | Forests and forestry -- United States -- Maps | Forests and forestry -- United States. | Foundries | France -- History. | France. Chambre des pairs | France. Code civil | Franklin (Aircraft carrier) | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History | Franklin Journal | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Imprints | Freemasonry -- France -- History. | Freemasons | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | French language | Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures | Fruits | Furnaces | Gas-lighting. | Genetics -- History. | Genetics -- Societies, etc. | Geodesy | Geography -- Europe | Geologists. | Geology | Geology -- Great Britain. | Geology -- Pennsylvania. | Geology -- Tables | Geology, Stratigraphic. | Girard College | Girls' Schools -- France -- Paris | Goldsmith, Oliver | Gorlitz (Dresden, Germany). Gymnasium | Grapes | Great Britain -- Colonies | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America | Great Britain -- Commerce -- West Indies. | Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 Sept. 3 | Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Gulf Stream | Haiti | Haiti -- History -- Sources | Harvard University -- Students | Hessians | Historic buildings -- Canada | Historic buildings -- United States | History of the earth and animated nature | History. | Hollywood (Md.) | Honors -- Royal Society (Great Britain) | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Hospitals -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Human beings -- Origin | Hybridization | Hymns | Hypnotism | Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Antiquities | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- History | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indulgences | Inland navigation -- United States | Insurance -- Great Britain | Invitations. | Iron and steel bridges | Iroquois Indians -- Agriculture | Jena, Battle of, Jena, Germany, 1806 | Jesus Christ | Jupiter (Planet) | Kings and rulers | Laboratories | Labrador (N.L.) | Lamps | Land use -- Ohio | Landscape architecture | Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling | Latin language | Law -- Periodicals | Law -- Virginia | Lectures, public speaking | Lectures. | Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company | Liberty Bell | Library rules and regulations | Library science -- Congresses | Life preservers | Light | Lightning | Lightning conductors | Lions | Lippincott's magazine of literature, science and education | Locks and keys | Locusts | London (England) -- Buildings. | London (England) -- Maps | Longitude. | Lord's prayer | Lotteries | Lowell Observatory | Lumadrama | Lyceums. | Machinery. | Magic squares | Magna Carta | Mammoths. | Maps | Maps. | Martial law -- Philadelphia (Pa.) | Massachusetts -- Finance | Mastodon | Mastodon -- Exhibitions | Mathematical instruments | Mauritius | Maxims | Medical sciences -- Periodicals | Medicine -- Congresses | Medicine -- Humor | Medicine -- Study and teaching. | Membership cards | Menageries -- Boston (Mass.) | Menageries -- Great Britain | Menageries -- Philadelphia | Menus. | Mercantile Library of Philadelphia | Merino sheep | Mesmerism. | Meteorology | Meteorology - Observations | Meteorology -- Observations -- England -- London | Meteorology -- Observations. | Meteorology -- Tables | Meteors. | Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861 | Mexico -- History -- Sources | Microscopy. | Mineralogy | Missionaries -- China. | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Missourium | Mohawk Indians | Mohawk language -- Texts | Mohegan Indians -- Religion | Mollusks. | Money | Moral philosophy | Moravians -- Missions | Morphology. | Mosquitoes. | Mothers | Mound-builders -- United States | Mounds -- United States | Mount Vernon School (Boston, Mass.) | Museums | Museums -- New York (State) -- New York. | Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century. | Music -- Scores. | Musical scores. | Mustard | Mysticism | National Academy of Sciences | National songs -- United States | Natural Philosophy | Natural history | Natural history -- Periodicals | Natural history -- Societies, etc. | Natural history -- South America | Natural history -- Technique | Natural history -- United States. | Naturalists. | Nebulae | New Orleans Canal and Banking Company | Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Occultism | Odometers | Official Government Documents and Records | Olivier, Charles P. (Charles Pollard), 1884-1975 | Oneida Community | Optical instruments | Orators | Ordnance | Oregon | Ozone | Painting -- Exhibitions | Paleontology | Paleontology -- Missouri | Paper money -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Paris (France) -- Description and travel. | Paris (France) -- History -- 1715-1789. | Passports. | Patent medicines | Patriotische Martyrer | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- History | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Perpetual calendars | Perpetual motion | Pharmacology. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Finance | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Statistics, Vital | Philadelphia (Pa.)-History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.). Militia | Phrenology. | Physical geography -- Canada | Physical instruments | Physicians | Physicians. | Phytogeography -- United States -- Maps | Planets | Planets -- Observations | Plants -- Collection and preservation. | Plows. | Poetry | Polarization (Light) | Political geography | Political satire | Poor laws -- Great Britain | Portraits. | Portsmouth (N.H.) -- Statistics, Vital | Postal service -- History | Postal service -- United States. | Presidents -- United States -- Autographs | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1804 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1840 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864 | Presidents -- United States. | Prices | Prices -- France | Prices -- Italy -- Trieste | Prices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Prices -- United States | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Printed Material | Printing machinery and supplies | Printing presses | Prisons | Privateering | Prizes | Processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Promissory notes | Propaganda, American | Prophecies | Quakers. | Railroads -- Mexico | Railroads -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Railroads. | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Real property. | Redwood family | Reigate and Godstone Railway | Religious education -- Massachusetts | Retired women -- France -- Paris | Rewards programs (Criminal investigation) | Roads -- Pennsylvania | Roots, Numerical | Royal College of Physicians of London | Royal Humane Society (London, England) | Rutgers College | Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) | Salt industry and trade | Scales (Weighing instruments) | Schools -- Denmark | Science | Science -- Congresses | Science -- History -- Study and teaching | Science -- Philosophy -- Study and teaching | Science -- Societies, etc. | Science -- Study and teaching. | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Scientific expeditions. | Scientists. | Seals and labels (Philately) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Seeds -- Catalogs | Seneca | Serpents | Sheffield (England) | Shipbuilding | Shippen, William, 1736?-1808 | Shippensburg (Pa.) | Ships, Iron and steel -- Great Britain | Shorthand. | Signals and signaling | Silk | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slavey language | Smallpox | Smallpox -- Vaccination | Social cards | Societies. | Society of Friends | Society of Friends -- Great Britain. | Solar eclipses. | Song sheets | South America -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century. | South Carolina -- Politics and government | Southern States -- Description and travel. | Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Spelling reform | Stamp Act, 1765 | Stars. | Steam | Steam-carriages | Steam-engines. | Steam-navigation | Steamboats -- United States. | Stoves | Strikes and lockouts | Success | Sugar beet | Sun | Susquehanna County (Pa.) | Sweden. Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 April 3 | Tariffs | Taxation -- Massachusetts | Taxation -- United States | Te Deum laudamus (Music) | Telegraph | Telescopes | Temper | Temperature -- Newfoundland -- St. John's | Temperature measurements. | Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 | Texas. Navy | Theology | Thermometers | Tickets. | Tobacco -- Commerce | Tobacco industry -- Bermuda Islands | Tobacco industry -- Virginia | Tornadoes | Trains -- Central Europe | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | Transylvania University | Travel | Treaties. | Trees -- North America. | Trees. | Trieste (Italy) -- Commerce | Trust indentures. | Tunnels -- England -- Thames River | Type and type-founding -- Specimens | Typhus fever. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | United Nations | United States - Politics and government | United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809 | United States -- Anniversaries, etc. | United States -- Centennial celebrations, etc. | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- American forces | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, German | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources | United States -- Military policy | United States -- Statistics | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Caricatures and cartoons | United States. Army | United States. Congress (2nd, 1st session : 1791-1792) | United States. Constitution | United States. Continental Army -- Organization | United States. Continental Army -- Staff -- Biography | United States. Declaration of Independence | United States. Navy -- Warrant officers | Uruguay -- History | Various authors | Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975 | Virginia. Declaration of Rights | Vivisection | Vivisection -- 19th century | Volapük | Warships | Washington Hall | Water -- Purification | Water -- Purification -- Filtration | Water mills | Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 | Weights and measures. | Whales | Wharton School | Wills. | Wine and wine making | Women -- Education | Women -- Employment | Wood -- Preservation | Yale University | Zoology | Zoology -- India | Zoology -- Italy | Zoology -- Pictorial works | Zoology -- Study and teaching.



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1920-2000
Abstract:  

The Paul A. W. Wallace Papers include correspondence to and from 20th century anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, linguists, and psychiatrists and provides a wealth of resources for the study of technological and social change, American Indians, culture and personality, revitalization movements, the anthropological study of religion, and the cultural and biological bases of behavior. The collection includes extensive correspondence with fellow scholars and Indian consultants, interviews with Indians of the Six Nations Reserve in Canada, and notes and photographs collected during his fieldwork among the Indians of New York State, Pennsylvania, and Canada.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.64b
Extent:
6.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1710-1822
Abstract:  

Since publication of I. Minis Hays's Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin in 1908, the APS Library has acquired a large number of miscellaneous letters and other documents relating to the life, mind, and work of Franklin and his immediate family. The collections listed in this finding aid consist of letters and documents to and from Franklin organized into groupings based upon provenance or focal point. The largest grouping consists of miscellaneous materials acquired individually or in small groups over the years, including a number of important individual items. The other collections consist largely of correspondence between Franklin and individual friends and colleagues, including his friends Mme Brillon, Mary "Polly" Stevenson Hewson, and Catherine Ray Greene, the Whig agriculturist Richard Jackson, and the printer Francis Childs. The collections include photostats of selected materials held by other institutions or that were in private hands. These are available for reference only.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F85.misc
Extent:
5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1764-1858
Abstract:  

Personal and professional correspondence of the chemist Robert Hare, including drafts of letters to editors of journals on such varied topics as fish guano, slaughterhouses, paper money, and the meaning of the term "Yankee annexations." The collection originally contained over 300 scrolls, since disbound, which contained drafts of letters, essays, and lectures, composed by Hare on ordinary sheets of paper, then pasted end to end, and rolled up. The essay and lecture topics include: chemistry, storms, slavery, currency, fire-fighting, capital punishment, railroads, the Smithsonian Institution, Michael Faraday, religion and Spiritualism, riots in Philadelphia, epidemics, underwater blasting, and Ralph W. Emerson; there is some verse. The collection also contains an account book of Hare and his wife, 1806-1829 (180 pp.; B/H22#3); a volume by Hare on Cyclones (tornadoes), n.d. (ca. 60 pp.; B/H22#4); and Samuel Powel, Jr.'s "Short notes on a course of antiquities at Rome... under M. Byre Antiquarian," 1764. (60 pp.).
Call #:  
Mss.B.H22
Extent:
3 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Philosophical Society | Antebellum Politics | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Banks and banking -- United States. | Blasting, Submarine | Blowpipe. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Capital punishment. | Chemical apparatus | Chemistry | Chemists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Cyclones. | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Electricity -- 19th century | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Epidemics -- United States | Essays. | Federalist Party -- Pennsylvania | Fire extinction | Fisher, John, 1806-1882 | Fisher, Richard | General Correspondence | Guano | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Kane , John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858 | Lectures | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Money | Paper money -- United States -- 19th century | Partridge, Charles | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Poems | Powel, Samuel, Jr. | Race, race relations, racism | Railroads | Religion | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Science and technology | Scientific Data | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sketchbooks | Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Smithsonian Institution | Spiritualism -- Pennsylvania | Storms | Tornadoes | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1878-1884
Abstract:  

This correspondence relates to botanizing expeditions in the Chesapeake Bay and Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical Society.
Call #:  
Mss.B.R743
Extent:
9 item(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1793-1857
Abstract:  

From the Board of Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, these films are the complete archive of one of the largest mercantile and financial operations in the United States of his day. The collection includes correpondence, with translations of letters in French (139 reels). It also includes bank records, account books, ledgers, cash books, and journals; papers, documents, and records of trading voyages (arranged by vessel and date); records of Girard's country house, "The Place"; records of real estate, rents, etc.; prices current of ports of the world. There is a card index of correspondents and ships (14 reels). Included is a card file, a unique and invaluable research tool, this is an index of names and places and alphabetical abstracts of Philadelphia newspaper items and advertisements for the period covering ca. 1718-1795. Roach made a systematic search through eighteenth-century newspapers and several other sources, for biographical and subject information on Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians of the period. It is primarily biographical , but subject headings, such as "The Barracks," "Blue Lion, Sign of the," "Custom House," are scattered throughout. The source of each entry is cited, and there are brief annotations. There is also a miscellaneous assortment of volumes that were received with the Kane family papers.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.1424
Extent:
600 microfilm_reel(s)
Subjects:  

Albany (Sloop of War) | American Philosophical Society | Astronomical observatories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Aykroyd, Henry, 1827-1890 | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bank of the United States | Banks and banking -- United States. | Bolivar, George W. | Brandywine (Ship) | Breese, Samuel L. (Samuel Livingston), 1794-1870 | Bunker, Benjamin H. | Butchers. | Cargo ships -- United States. | Caster, A. | China -- Commerce -- 1644-1912. | Commonplace books. | Cumberland (Ship) | Davis, Amos | Donaldson, John | Duncan, R. R. | Education -- Europe -- 19th century. | Edward O'Brien (Ship) | Europe -- Commerce -- 18th century. | Europe -- Commerce -- 19th century. | Girard Trust Corn Exchange Bank. | Girard's Bank. | Girard, Stephen--Estate, 1750-1831 | Harris, William | Journals (notebooks). | Kaspar, Peter | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Law -- Societies, etc. | Ledgers. | Leesburg (Ship) | Leiper, Mary B. | Logbooks. | Lovell, H. H. | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century. | New World (Ship) | Parker, F. A. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. | Pennsylvania Literary Association of Philadelphia. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia Society for the Employment and Instruction of the Poor. | Receipt books. | Rice, J. D. | Roach, Hannah Benner. | Roath, H. G. | Roderic (Ship) | Sandusky (Ship) | Savanah (Ship) | Shipping -- United States -- 18th century. | Shipping -- United States -- 19th century. | Ships -- United States. | Smith, Robert | Society for the promotion of legal knowledge and forensic eloquence (P | Telegraph (Ship) | United States -- Commerce -- 18th century. | United States -- Commerce -- 19th century. | University of Pennsylvania. | Wings of the Morning (Ship)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1784-1814
Abstract:  

Jane Aitken (1764-1832) is a significant historical figure for several reasons. One of the first American female printers, Jane Aitken was also a bookseller, bookbinder, businesswoman, and employer during the early nineteenth century, a time when the independence of women was actively discouraged. There is a dearth of personal information about Jane Aitken, an unfortunate fact that is reflected in her surviving papers. This small collection, 145 items, is representative of her severely compromised financial situation and her constant failed efforts to rectify the situation. Her correspondence consists primarily of appeals to John Vaughan, a member and librarian of the American Philosophical Society, for loans. Vaughan was evidently a reliable and sympathetic supporter.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Ai9
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1642-1841
Abstract:  

The Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin prepared by Isaac Minis Hays for the bicentennial of Franklin's birth in 1906 provides access to the largest portion of the Franklin Papers at the APS. The items were originally bound into volumes in roughly chronological order, with letters to Franklin preceding those from Franklin and at the end of the collection, Franklin's letters owned by the University of Pennsylvania. Each manuscript is still identified by Hays' reference numbers, which include a roman numeral refering to the original volume followed by an arabic number to identify the folio. The electronic version of the finding aid replicates Hays' calendar, including the introductory material and item-level descriptions. It has been updated to reflect corrections in the metadata, corrections of personal names, dates, and description.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F85
Extent:
85.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Account books. | American Philosophical Society | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Diaries. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Electricity -- Early works to 1800 | Family Correspondence | France -- Foreign relations -- United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States | Hays, I. Minis (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | Hodge, Sarah Bache, 1798-1849 | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794 | Military History | Pen works | Pencil works | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 18th century | Pennsylvania History | Political Correspondence | Postal service -- United States | Printed Material | Printers -- Pennsylvania | Printing and Publishing | Scientific Correspondence | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States -- Foreign relations -- France | United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | Williams, Jonathan, 1719-1796 | Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815



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Dates:
1938-2012
Abstract:  

The papers of anthropologist Ward Goodenough cover his whole career, most of it spent in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. After service in army during WW II, Goodenough received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1949. He conducted field research from 1947 to 1965, working at Chuuk (Truk), the Gilberts, Papua New Guinea, and New Britain. The collection is particularly important in showing how linguistic theory can help further anthropological theory.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.120
Extent:
51 Linear feet



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Dates:
1938-2013
Abstract:  

Baruch S. Blumberg was a biomedical researcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia, PA, during the second half of the 20th century. His research into Australia Antigen and the Hepatitis B Virus led to a vaccine for the virus and a share of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Blumberg also served as chief of the Geographic Medicine and Genetics Section at the NIH (1957-1964), Master of Balliol College (1989-1994), the first Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (1999-2002), and President of the American Philosophical Society (2005-2011).
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.144
Extent:
458 Linear feet



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Dates:
1902-1963
Abstract:  

This collection contains correspondence, research notes, papers and addresses, memoranda, drafts of letters and papers. These items center on Lingelbach's career at the University of Pennsylvania and at the American Philosophical Society. There is much correspondence with noted historians relating to various topics. His interest in political history and foreign policy, and his participation in national organizations can be seen in such files as the Foreign Policy Association, National Resources Planning Board, and the U.S. War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training (World War I).
Call #:  
Mss.B.L635
Extent:
8 Linear feet



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Dates:
1743-1990
Abstract:  

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.
Call #:  
APS.Archives
Extent:
192.25 Linear feet



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Dates:
1831-1864
Abstract:  

George Ord made important contributions as an ornithologist and writer but is also famous for his contempt of fellow ornithologist John James Audubon. Throughout his life he published numerous scientific articles and assisted in completing Alexander Wilson's life's work, American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Ord also left his mark as a member of the American Philosophical Society and as the president of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. The George Ord collection consists primarily of outgoing personal correspondence to Charles Waterton ranging from 1831 to 1866 that highlights Ord's professional as well as personal affairs, most notably his hostility toward Audubon. The collection is supplemented by correspondence of Ord's to and from various individuals regarding personal and business matters.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Or2
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolitionists -- United States -- Attitudes | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | American Philosophical Society | Animals -- Habits and behavior of | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America | Banks and banking -- United States. | Biddle, Alexander, 1819-1899 | Birds -- Study and teaching | Birds. | Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857 | British Association for the Advancement of Science | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Cholic Acid | Church buildings -- Pennsylvania-Philadelphia | Cicada (Genus) | Columbidia | Cuba -- Insurrection, 1849-1851 | Cuckoos | Daguerreotypes | Darlington, William, 1781-1863 | Dictionary of the English language. Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 | Dove | Du Chaillu, Paul B., (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 | Early National Politics | English language -- Dictionaries | Exploration. | Famines -- Ireland | France -- 19th century | Frogs -- United States | Frost -- Great Britain | Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807-1882 | Geese | General Correspondence | Gold mines and mining -- California -- 19th century | Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia | Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 | Heatstroke | Hunter, John Dunn | Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Influenza -- United States | Irish -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Italy -- Revolution of 1848 | Italy -- War of 1859 | Jardine, William, Sir, 1800-1874 | Kagoshima-shi (Japan) | Kane, Paul, 1810-1871 | Memorials -- Great Britain | Mercury | Mexican War, 1846-1848 | Monk, Maria, d. 1850 | National Gallery of Art (U.S.) | National Institute for the Promotion of Science | Natural history | Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 | Ord, George, 1781-1866 | Partridges | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 -- Art collections. | Philadelphia History | Philological Society (Great Britain) | Potatoes | Railroads -- 19th century | Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. | Rattlesnake | Religion | Reptiles | Roux de Rochelle, Jean Baptiste Gaspard, 1762-1849 | Royal Society (Great Britain) | Russia -- Foreign relations -- Germany-Prussia | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sea monsters | Secession -- Southern States | Skin -- Diseases-Treatment | Slaves -- Emancipation-America | Smithsonian Institution | Smoking -- Health aspects -- United States | Soap trade -- Pennsylvania | St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Steam-navigation -- Atlantic Ocean | Steamboat disasters | Stout Family | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Uncle Tom's Cabin. | Telegraph | United States -- Civil War 1861 1865 -- Participation Foreign | United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects | United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). | United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). | Vaughan, William | Waterton , Charles, 1782-1865 | Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1872 | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1872. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition. | Williams, Eleazer, 1787-1858



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Dates:
1916-1972
Abstract:  

Working on the Army Epidemiological Board in the 1940s, Joseph Stokes, Jr. discovered the value of gamma globulin for the prevention of epidemic hepatitis. His subsequent research included immunization against influenza, protection against poliomyelitis by gamma globulin, antigenic difference between epidemic and serum hepatitis, immunization procedures in mumps, development of a vaccine against measles. His clinical focus was on the causes and prevention of childhood infectious diseases. His administrative work includes the transformation of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. His community work consists of public health and environment control issues.
Call #:  
Mss.B.St65p
Extent:
126 Linear feet
Subjects:  

American Academy of Pediatrics | American Friends Service Committee | American Medical Association | American Pediatric Society | American Philosophical Society | Arthritis. | Association of American Physicians | Barbero, Giulio J., 1923-1997 | Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970 | Benison, Saul | Bernstein, Yale B. | Bongiovanni, Alfred M., 1921-1986 | Capps, Richard B. | Cerebral palsy. | Chapple, Charles C. | Child Guidance Clinic (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Cohn, Edwin Joseph, 1892-1953 | College of Physicians of Philadelphia | Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care. | Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) | Coriell, Lewis L. | Cystic fibrosis. | DeKruif, Paul | Enders, John F., 1897-1985 | Epidemiology. | Family Planning. | Gamma globulins | Gellis, Sydney | Gittings, J. Claxton (John Claxton), 1874-1950 | Gregg, Alan, 1890-1957 | György, Paul | Hammon, William McD (William McDowell), 1904-1989 | Harris, Susanna | Harris, Tzvee N. | Haverford College | Henle, Gertrude | Henle, Warner, 1910-1987 | Hepatitis. | Influenza. | International Congress of Pediatrics | Janeway, Charles A. | Japan | Karush, Fred | Koop, C. Everett (Charles Everett), 1916-2013 | Krogman, Wilton Marion, 1903-1987 | Lee, Henry | McAllister, Robert M. | McGuinness, Aims C. (Aims Chamberlain), 1905-1988 | Measles. | Medicine. | Metabolic disorders in children. | Mudd, Stuart | Mumps | National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis | Neefe, John R. | Nelson, Waldo E. | Noone, Ernest | Park, Edwards A. (Edwards Albert), 1877-1967 | Paul, John R. | Pediatrics. | Philadelphia Pediatric Society | Playtex Park Research Institute. | Poliomyelitis | Public health. | Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Rhoads, Jonathan Evans, 1907-2002 | Rivers, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton), 1888-1962 | Rose, Elizabeth Kirk | Rose, John A. | Rubin, Mitchell I. | Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995 | Shope, Richard E. (Richard Edwin) | Society of American Bacteriologists | Somers, Anne Ramsay | Stokes, Joseph (1896-1972) | Talbot, Nathan B. (Nathan Bill), 1909-1994 | Travel -- Russia | UNICEF | United States. -- Army Epidemiological Board. | University College of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) | University of Pennsylvania. | Wells, William Firth | Wolman, Irving Jacob, 1905-1978 | Woods Schools.



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Dates:
1781-1844
Abstract:  

A pioneer in ethnographic and linguistic studies of the American Indian and one of the most active members of the American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau helped to establish the American Philosophical Society's reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for the study of American Indians and their languages. The Peter Stephen Du Ponceau collection consists of correspondence on legal matters, Indian linguistics, silk culture, maritime law, the American Philosophical Society, and various publications of the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes several essays by Du Ponceau, most of which deal with maritime law.
Call #:  
Mss.B.D92p
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



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Dates:
1801-1843
Abstract:  

These forty-five letters concern legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.541
Extent:
1 reel(s)



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Dates:
1913-2010
Abstract:  

Britton Chance (1913-2010) was a biochemist and biophysicist as well as a pioneer in the field of biomedical optics. Chance received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940 and his Ph.D. in Biology and Physiology from Cambridge University in 1942. Over the course of his nearly eight decade career, Chance was dedicated to the application and transfer of basic scientific research and technology to clinical medicine. The Britton Chance Papers contain correspondence, research notes, experimental data, publication materials, and photographs stemming from Chance's life as a biochemist, biophysicist, and yachtsman. The collection is broken up into fifteen series that document every aspect of his scientific work.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.160
Extent:
275.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  



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Dates:
1794-1817
Abstract:  

This is primarily a collection of letters and manuscripts sent to Wistar by prominent men who were among his many correspondents. These documents reflect his broad interests, including botany, paleontology, medicine, the American Philosophical Society, and André Michaux's plans for exploring the Missouri.
Call #:  
Mss.B.W76
Extent:
1 volume(s)



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