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Dates:
1769-1866
Abstract:  

The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).
Call #:  
Mss.B.M891
Extent:
4.25 Linear feet



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Dates:
1727-1781
Abstract:  

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Sh62
Extent:
10 volume(s)



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Dates:
1746-1900
Abstract:  

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS Proceedings 95 (1951): 246-249.
Call #:  
Mss.B.V46p
Extent:
13.25 Linear feet



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Dates:
1663-1972
Abstract:  

One of the oldest houses in Philadelphia, Wyck is now a non-profit museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine generations of the Jansen-Wistar-Haines family owned the Wyck property from 1690 until 1973. The last family owner deeded 2.5 acres of land, the house and its contents, several outbuildings, a landscaped garden, and a small endowment to the Wyck Charitable Trust. The Wyck Charitable Trust and the Wyck Association now administer the preservation of the property and its educational services to the public. This collection contains diaries, letters, accounts, bills and receipts, deeds, and photographs. The collection as a whole is deepest for the period 1770-1970. Items of particular note include accounts of household expenses at Wyck from ca. 1790-1970; papers pertaining to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Quaker schools, and social reform groups; agricultural and horticultural practices; and correspondence to and from cultural leaders of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia. The papers of the John S. Haines family (Ms. Coll. 52A) form part of the Wyck Papers. The papers cover the years 1845 to 1949 and are arranged into eight series.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.52
Extent:
168.0 Linear feet



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Dates:
1718-1912
Abstract:  

In addition to family and business correspondence, the Charles Nicoll Bancker Family Papers contains various documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way. Bancker was involved in business and trade prior to 1826, and in insurance after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection. There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B22.c
Extent:
3.25 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Bancker, Charles Gerard, 1809-1861 | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bancker, Evert, 1734-1815 | Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, circa 1780-1843 | Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Daybooks. | Early National Politics | Education | Family Correspondence | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Girard, Stephen--Estate, 1750-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Insurance agents -- United States. | Inventories. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Land and Speculation | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Marshall, John G. (John George), 1789-1880 | McIlvaine, H. M. | Merchants - United States | Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 | Montgomery, James, 1787-1834 | Montgomery, John T. (John Teackle), 1817-1895 | Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Political Correspondence | Politicians -- United States. | Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 | Sketchbooks | Smith, Christopher | Social Life and Custom | Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Talbot, Violetta Taylor Bancker, 1788-1865 | Teackle, Elizabeth Bancker | Teackle, John, 1753-1817 | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States - Commerce - To 1865 | United States - Social conditions - To 1865 | Upshur, Abel Percy | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Women's History



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Dates:
1783-1817
Abstract:  

A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research. The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B284d
Extent:
10 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany -- Study and teaching -- 19th century | Botany -- Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry -- 18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Education | Electricity -- 18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology -- 18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals -- Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine -- Practice -- 18th century | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century | Meteorology -- United States -- 18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural history | Natural history -- 18th century | Natural history -- 19th century | New Jersey -- Description and travel -- 18th century | New York (State) -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia -- Description and travel -- 18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1793 | Zoology -- 18th century



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Dates:
1810-1953
Abstract:  

The most stellar member of a stellar family, Elisha Kent Kane was among the most popular American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, a hero in the tragic mode. Born in Philadelphia in 1820, the son of John Kintzing Kane and Jane Duval Leiper, Kane studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before earning a commission as a naval surgeon. While in the Navy, Kane embarked on the succession of voyages to exotic locales that became the basis for his extraordinary fame. In 1843, he attended Caleb Cushing's first diplomatic mission to China as ship's physician, and subsequently traveled to the Philippines and Western Africa. Distinguishing himself in the Mexican War, Kane's greatest fame came from two expeditions to the arctic, aiming to locate the lost explorer, Sir John Franklin and to explore for evidence of the open polar sea. Kane died in 1857 while attempting to organize a third arctic voyage. Part of the Kane Family Collection, the Papers of Elisha Kent Kane contain a mix of personal and family correspondence with correspondence relating to all of Kane's explorations. Intelligent, articulate and very much a romantic, Kane's letters are expressive and passionate. The collection provides fine documentation of youth, his relationship with the Spiritualist Margaret Fox, and of course his travels to China and off the coast of Africa in 1846. Kane's two expeditions to the arctic are particularly well documented, with correspondence, notes, logbooks, diaries, and sketches, as well as Kane's post-expedition notes, writings, and lectures recounting his experiences.
Call #:  
Mss.B.K132
Extent:
6.75 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa -- Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor -- Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt -- Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers -- United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia -- Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mexico -- Description and travel | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | Watercolors



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Dates:
1826-1898
Abstract:  

After a brief career in the Congregational church, J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) left the ministry in 1852 to work full-time as a geologist. Having gained experience in structural geology and stratigraphy with the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1836-1842), Lesley became an expert in the geology of coal, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations and conducting some of the first systematic studies of the state's hydrocarbon resources. A long-time professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he was elected to the APS in 1856, serving variously as its librarian, secretary, and vice president, and he was selected as Director of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey (1875-1889). The Lesley Papers include letters to and from Peter Lesley and his wife, Susan on geology, coal and iron mining, abolition, educational reform, organized charity, and Unitarianism. The collection offers important insight into academic and applied geology in late 19th century Pennsylvania, the development of the coal and iron industries, as well as into the Lesleys' progressive social and intellectual milieu. It is divided into three series: Lesley's general correspondence, his correspondence with his brother Joseph, and microfilms of Lesley's research notes.
Call #:  
Mss.B.L56
Extent:
7.75 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Americans Abroad | Avesta | Biographies. | Cartography. | Charities -- United States. | Clippings. | Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 | Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Desor, E. (Edouard), 1811-1882 | Diaries. | Education -- United States | Egypt -- Antiquities. | Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 | Family Correspondence | Flint, Austin | France -- Description and travel | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt | Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Maps | Geology -- Nova Scotia -- Surveys | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germany -- Description and travel | Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 | Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody), 1820-1900 | Hawaiian language | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | International Travel | Javanese language | Journals (notebooks) | Lesley, Allen | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Lesley, Joseph, 1831-1889 | Lesley, Susan I. (Susan Inches), 1823-1904 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874 | Marriage and Family Life | Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 | McKinley, Alexander | Nova Scotia -- Surveys | Obelisks | Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 | Paleontology -- Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania -- Surveys | Philology | Photographs | Poems | Scientific Data | Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate , 1841-1906 | Sketches. | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | Switzerland -- Description and travel | Thomson, J. Edgar (James Edgar), 1808-1874 | Transcendentalism | Travel Narratives and Journals | Unitarianism | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 | Whitney, J. D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896 | Wright, Chauncey,1830-1875.



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Dates:
1724-1965
Abstract:  

This is a collection of letters, letterbooks, account books, scrapbooks, etc., concerning the families of Robert Hare and Thomas Willing. The letters and other documents include early family material, as well as documents written by numerous family relations, and some obviously only collected by them. The Willing family letters (1744-1901) are diverse, concerning family matters, business, society, comments on the Civil War, etc. There are numerous letters from Thomas Willing, many concerning his banking career, as President of the Bank of North America and later at the first Bank of the U.S. The Hare family letters (1724-1965) are more extensive and diverse, including much on travel in the U.S. and elsewhere. There is a letter from Robert Hare Jr. concerning steam engines, and letters from Horace Binney Hare concerning his education at Harvard, 1860, his trip to San Francisco and the west, 1862, and numerous letters written while a soldier in the Civil War. There are many letters from Horace Binney (1780-1875, DAB) to his daughter Esther, who was married to John Innes Clark Hare (1816-1905, DAB), concerning family travel and court cases. There are also letters from outside the family, such as those from Dorothea L. Dix. The bound volumes include, among others: Robert Hare letterbooks (1824-1825, 1841-1857), estate records, and laboratory expense accounts (1818-1860); G. H. Hare's journal or log of cruises aboard the U.S. United States (1841) and U.S. Flint (1845); Horace Binney Hare's 1862 journal of his trip to San Francisco. There are account books and accounts (1754-1795) kept by Thomas Willing; accounts of the controversy over the estate of John Innes Clark; and records of the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia (receipt book, 1820-1848; minute book, 1827-1844). There are also Philadelphia court records, and minutes of the Common Council of the city, 1832.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.104
Extent:
52 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Account books. | African American | African American churches -- United States | Americans Abroad | Banks and banking -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Beale, Catherine C. | Beale, Charles Willing, 1845-1932 | Beale, Constance R., 1850-1937 | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 1822-1893 | Binney, Horace, 1780-1875 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 | Clark, John Innes | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Early National Politics | Education | Educational Material | Family Correspondence | First Colored Wesley Methodist Church of Philadelphia. | Flint (Ship) | General Correspondence | Hare, Charles Willing, 1871-1942 | Hare, Ellen Mary Cassatt | Hare, Emily P. Beale, 1848-1935 | Hare, Esther Binney, 1873-1967 | Hare, Esther Coxe Binney | Hare, George Harrison | Hare, Horace Binney | Hare, Horace Binney, 1843-1879 | Hare, Horace Binney, 1876-1956 | Hare, John Innes Clark, 1816-1905 | Hare, Margaret Willing, 1753-1816 | Hare, Robert, 1752-1811 | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 | Hare, Robert, 1869-1875 | Hare, Thomas Truxtun, 1878-1956 | Hare-Willing family. | Harvard University | Institutional Records | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Law | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Mac Veagh, Margaret | Meigs, Ellen Mary Cassatt Hare | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Natural history | Notebooks | Perry-Smith, Oliver, 1884-1969 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Councils. -- Common Council. | Philadelphia History | Receipt books. | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel. | Science -- United States -- 19th century. | Science and technology | Scrapbooks. | Smith, Stuart Farrar, 1874-1951 | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Steam-engines. | Titantic (Steamship) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States (Ship) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel. | Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821 | Women's History | World War I | World War II



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Dates:
1745-1955
Abstract:  

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.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.115
Extent:
56 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Antebellum Politics | Architects. | Architectural drawings. | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- American. | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bills (financial). | Biographies. | Briefs. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company. | Commonplace Book | Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, 1863-1952 | Cope, Walter, 1860-1902 | Deeds. | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Girard Bank. | Haiti | Indian Rights Association. | Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Institutional Records | Insurance policies. | Italy -- Commerce. | Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1 | Law | Law firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Lawyers -- Pennsylvania. | Lawyers. | Legal Records | Letterbooks. | Manuscripts (for publication). | Marriage and Family Life | Mormons -- Utah -- History. | Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Expulsion of the Mormons. | Notebooks | Notes. | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Photograph albums | Political Correspondence | Poor -- Services for -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Prison reformers -- United States. | Prisons -- Pennsylvania. | Receipts. | Religion | Reports. | Saint George Society -- Trials, litigation, etc. | Social Life and Custom | Social reformers -- United States. | Trade | Trials (Espionage) -- United States. | Trials. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | United States -- Commerce. | Ute Indians | Ute Indians -- Removal | Various authors



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Dates:
1750-1974
Abstract:  

A collection of business and personal papers of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia Jewish family from 1750-1974. Business records include trade and land transactions (some in Yiddish) of the Gratz brothers, Barnard and Michael (1750-1804) with the business continued by Michael's sons: Simon, Hyman, Joseph, Jacob, and Benjamin (1791-1861). Personal correspondence are primarily letters to Rebecca Gratz from her sisters Rachel and Sarah (1795-1867) with later correspondence to Rachel's children: Horace and Sara Moses (1832-1879). Contains a small group of French letters related to Napoleon III, collected by family member Miriam Fox, and some heirloom artifacts.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.72
Extent:
10.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  

American Revolution | Art | Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848 | Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Colonial Politics | Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Correspondence. | Croghan, George | Early National Politics | Etting, Frances Gratz, 1771-1852 | Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920 | Family Correspondence | Female Hebrew Benevolent Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fenno, Maria | Franks, David | General Correspondence | Gratz, Barnard, 1738-1801 | Gratz, Benjamin, 1792-1884 | Gratz, Hyman, 1776-1857 | Gratz, Jacob, 1789-1856 | Gratz, Joseph, 1785-1858 | Gratz, Michael, 1740-1811 | Gratz, Miriam Simon, 1749-1808 | Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869 | Gratz, Sarah, 1779-1817 | Gratz, Simon, 1773-1839 | Hays, Richea Gratz, 1774-1858 | Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) | International Trade. | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 | Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 | Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844 | Joseph, Sarah Gratz Moses | Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 | Land and Speculation | Land speculation | Legal Records | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Moses, Horace, 1820-1893 | Moses, Isaac, 1742-1818 | Moses, Rachel Gratz, 1783-1823 | Moses, Solomon, 1774-1857 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 | Nathan, Rebecca Gratz Moses, 1810-1891 | Official Government Documents and Records | Orphan Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) | Pennsylvania History | Philanthropy | Political Correspondence | Religion | Rodman, Harriet Fenno, 1782-1808 | Simon, Joseph | Simon, Joseph, 1785-1858 | Sketchbooks | Social Life and Custom | Surveying and Maps | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Women's History



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Dates:
Circa 1760s-1850s
Abstract:  

This rich collection of letters and documents, which was assembled by Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) over a period of fifty years, includes material on almost all notable Americans from before the Revolution to the 1850's, as well as prominent Europeans, and there are documents relating to military affairs. There are substantial groups of letters from: John Adams, Henry Dearborn, Alexander Hamilton, Jedediah Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, George Washington, and a long run of letters from a Massachusetts military surgeon named Samuel Adams. Many letters, though written by Revolutionary figures, relate to events that occurred before or after the War.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F327
Extent:
27 Linear feet
Subjects:  

1775-1783 | 1783-1850 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Adams, Samuel | Agriculture | Agusta, GA | Albany (N.Y.) | Albany, N.Y. | Albany, NY | Albemarle Barracks, VA | Alexandria, VA | Algiers (Algeria) | Ambassadors | American Revolution | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Annapolis (Md.) | Annapolis, MD | Antigua, WI | Au Cap, France | Augusta County (Va.) | Bagshot, England | Baltimore (Md.) | Bank of Albany (Albany, N.Y.) | Belmont, VA | Bennington, VT | Bonston, MA | Books | Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) | Boston (Mass.) | Boston Massacre, 1770 | Boston, MA | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837. Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America. English | Bound Brook (N.J.) | Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777 | Bristol County (Mass.) | Brown, Elias, 1793-1857 | Buckingham, PA | Bucks County (Pa.) | Bucks County (Pa.) | Business and Skilled Trades | Cabanis, P. J. G. (Pierre Jean Georges), 1757-1808 | Cadwalader, Lambert, 1742-1823 | Cambridge, MA | Cambridge, Mass | Camden (N.J.) | Camp Tappan, NY | Cape Henry (Virginia Beach, Va.) | Carlisle, PA | Catskill Landing, NY | Champlain, Lake | Charleston (S.C.) | Charleston Harbor, SC | Charleston, SC | Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) | Charlotte County, VA | Charlottesville (Va.) | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Chester County (Pa.) | Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Clothing | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Conde, France | Connecticut | Conneticut | Constitution | Court at St. James, London | Crown Point, NY | Cádiz (Spain) | Danbury (Conn.) | Dartmouth College | Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829 | Delaware | Detroit, MI | Diplomacy | Diplomacy--History | Diplomatic History | Dobbs Ferry, NY | Dublin (Ireland) | Dueling | Early National Politics | Eastham, MA | Easton, Massachusetts | Education | Edwardsville (Ill.) | Egg Harbor City (N.J.) | Elizabethtown, NJ | England | Englishtown, NJ | Essex, England | Family Correspondence | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Fenner, NY | Fishkill (N.Y.) | Fort Mifflin (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fort Ticonderoga | France | France. Marine | France. Navy | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Frederick County (Va.) | Fredericksburg (Va.) | Fredericksburg, NY | Fredericksburg, VA | Freight and freightage | French Revolution | Gazette de Leyde (Netherlands, Leiden) | General Correspondence | Georgia | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Goshen, NC | Great Britain. Parliament | Great Britain. Royal Navy | Great Britain. 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