This collection includes correspondence (4 linear feet), diaries, manuscripts of publications, and research data (6 linear feet.). Mooney-Slater (1902- 1981) was born Rose Camille LeDieu and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her BS at Newcomb College, MS at Tulane University and PhD from the University of Chicago (1932) where she worked under Will Zachariasen. Recognized as an outstanding crystallographer, she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, appointed chair of the physics department at Tulane University, worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory under the auspices of the Manhattan District at the University of Chicago, and on the structure of crystals and crystalline materials using X-ray diffraction.

A collection of letters, legal papers and financial records of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia family. Spanning 1745-1955, detailed are the legal cases and political advocacy work of John Kintzing Kane (1795-1858), Robert Patterson Kane (1827-1906), and Francis Fisher Kane (1866-1955). Also includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photograph albums of the Cope family. Robert Patterson Kane's daughter Eliza Middleton Kane (1863-1952) married the Philadelphia architect Walter Cope (1860-1902) in 1893. The APS papers of Elisha Kent Kane are in call no. B K132.